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Saturday, April 28, 1973
The African countries included Ghana, Gambia, Tanzania, Uganda,
Botswana, Lesotho and Egypt; the Asian countries Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka,
Malaysia, Bahrain and Hong Kong; the Caribbean countries Jamaica, Barbados,
St. Lucia and Guyana. Other countries were Gibraltar, Mexico, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Colombia and Papua and New Guinea, while Britain was represented by
an officer of the British Council.
The seminar was conducted by two professors of the Institute of
Development Studies Ronald Dore, a sociologist, and Richard Jolly, an
economist - both of whom had a good knowledge of education in developing
countries.
There were many plenary sessions where a wide variety of short talks
were given either by them or, more frequently, by guest speakers drawn
from Sussex, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Bristol, Edinburgh and other
British universities as well as other institutions including colleges of
education.
In addition, small technical groups were regularly organised to
thrash out more specific problems of common interest. The rest of the
programme was made up of educational visits and individual projects.
While in Britain, Mr. Ho visited the Inner London Education Authority
with whom Hong Kong has established a special relationship and the Centre
for Educational Development Overseas.
He also visited Avery Hill and Brighton Colleges of Education, the London
Teacher Education Centre and a number of primary and secondary schools.
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