Mr C. E. Beeby Going Back To College

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30213, 19 August 1963, Page 13

Mr C. E. Beeby Going Back To College

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, August 18. A New Zealander who heads an organisation which spends 20 million dollars on education in two years is soon to attend university—to undertake six months’ research into education. He is Mr C. E. Beeby, a former Director of Education, who is New Zealand's Ambassador in Paris and chairman of the executive board of the

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Mr Beeby said in Wellington tonight that he had been invited to undertake research at Harvard University, and that he planned to go there after his term as Ambassador expired in October. He would do research Into the relationship between educational systems in different countries at particular stages of development. In particular he would study what happened when a country with one educational system tried to help another country with lower educational standards. UN.E.S.C.O. spent 20 million dollars in two years on technical and other assistance to under-developed countries, said Dr. Beeby. He was anxious to find out how far ttie ordinary teaching methods of Britain, New Zealand, and the United States were applicable in under - developed countries where the teachers were only half as well educated as their counterparts elsewhere. It was possible that considerable damage could be done by trying to change established educational systems for those in use in the developing countries, he said Mr Beeby is spending a fortnight in New Zealand tc discuss U.N E.S.C.O.’s 1965-66 proginamme and budget with lie Government. The budget is submitted to U.N.E.S.C O.'s 113 members in just over a year.