The first teams of specialists assigned by the American ORT Federation to make surveys of vocational education in Africa left yesterday, it was announced here today. The surveys have been organized under terms of a contract between ORT and the International Cooperation Administration in Washington, D.C.
The project, a pioneering one, assigned to ORT the task of studying existing facilities in the field of vocational education in eight African countries, most of them newly independent, and to prepare recommendations for such educational development in the light of economic and manpower needs. The teams of specialists are composed of regular members of the staff of the ORT international system of vocational schools and of personnel from the New York City and Chicago schools.
The first groups will proceed to Mali, Guinea and Nigeria. Other groups will go to Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Togo and Cameroun for studies in these countries. All these areas suffer from a severe inadequacy of skilled people. The survey is designed to lay down the principles for the establishment of national systems of vocational schools to provide instruction in much needed trades and industrial, agricultural and construction techniques.
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