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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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