§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what financial contribution from public funds was made, and what other support from his Department was given, in respect of the conference at Jablonna, Poland, arranged through the Jagiellonian Foundation in October 1990; and who attended.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe know-how fund made a contribution of £8,000 towards the costs of the recent Jagiellonian foundation seminar held to discuss general questions of curriculum reform in the Polish educational context.
No other support was given by my Department. No complete record is available of the names of all those who attended, but among those who did so were:
Dr. Leo Katzen, Department of Economics, Leicester University;David J. Levy, Department of Sociology, Middlesex Polytechnic;Professor Roger Scruton, Birkbeck College, London;Dr. John Marks, Director, Education Research Trust;Ken Connelly, retired headmaster;Professor Anthony O'Hear, Philosophy, Bradford University;Dr. Geoffrey Partington, Department of Education, Flinders University of Southern Australia;Professor David Cooper, Philosophy, Durham University;President of Philosophy of Education Society;Dr. Brian Davies, School of Education, University College, Cardiff;Dr. Andrew King, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester University;Susan Wright, Department of Education, North London Polytechnic;Dr. Lawrence Norcross, retired headmaster;Stuart Sexton, Headmaster;Liz Lightfoot, Education correspondent, Mail on Sunday;Marek Matraszek, Jagiellonian Trust, Oxford;Professor Anthony Flew, Reading University, Philosophy Educational Theorist;Professor Richard Lynn, University of Ulster, Educational Psychologist;Chris Coldman, Mathematics teacher, London;Wiktor Kulerski, Minister of Education;Dr. Andrzej Pachocinski, Department of Education, Warsaw University;Dr. Wawrzyniec Konarski, Department of Education, Warsaw University;Dr. Milowit Kuninski, Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow:Dr. Anton Kaminski, Department of Sociology, Warsaw University, and advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs;Dr. Stefania Szscurkowska, Ministry of Education;Iwona Langer-Kowalewska, Secondary school headmistress, Gdansk;Magdalena Pilch, Secondary School Headmistress, Warsaw;Dr. Witold Karczewski, Pan, Warsaw;together with school teachers from several parts of the country, and occasional visitors from the social and political science and education departments in the university.Dr. Nicolae Sacalis, from the Department of pedagogy at Bucharest University.Professor Wayne Shute, department of education at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City;came as an independent observer.