Educational Advancement in Non-Self-Governing Territories

A/RES/1050(XI)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1957.

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1955A/RES/845(IX)Educational advancement in Non-Self-Governing Territories

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Educational Policy Educational Programmes National Professional Staff Non-Self-Governing Territories Scholarships Self-Rule

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Reaffirms the view expressed in resolution 743

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of 27 November 1953 and reproduced in paragraph 17 of part two of the 1956 report of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories that, in accordance with the objectives laid down in that resolution, the process of education should be designed to familiarize the inhabitants with and train them in the use of the tools of economic, social and political progress, with a view to the attainment of a full measure of self-government;

Recommends to the Administering Members that they should intensify their efforts to establish, in Territories where it does not already exist, local machinery provided with sufficient financial resources to perform its fonctions and staffed by duly qualified indigenous personnel responsible for the formulation of educational policy and the implementation of educational programmes;

Suggests to the Administering Members the desirability of studying the method best calculated to enab~e l~cal educat~o~al bo_dies in Non-Se!f-Governing Terntones to partlc1pate m the formulat10n and implementation of technical assistance programmes of the United Nations and the specialized agencies relating to these Territories;

Urges all Members of the United Nations to offer increased facilities and to simplify conditions for the granting of scholarships and any other form of assistance to further the educational advancement of the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories, and reiterates its invitation to the Administering Members to permit the greatest possible advantage to be taken of such facilities and benefits;

Expresses the hope that the Administering Members will study the possibility of inviting the Governments of the Member States in the same region as the Non-Self-Gover_ning Terri~ories concerned to appoint exp~rts to contnbute by the1r knowledge to the meetings of mter-governmental agencies of regional co-operation of the type referred to in part two, chapter XIII, of the report of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories;

Requests the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories to report to the General Assembly on the steps taken to give effect to the recommendations contained in the present resolution.

20 February 1957.

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