HOMES SOUGHT FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 15

HOMES SOUGHT FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS

Overseas students for whom accommodation, is sought in private homes include young Africans here under the Special Commonwealth Aid to Africa Plan. African countries taking part in this programme are Kenya, Tanganyika. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Under New Zealand awards granted since the inception of the plan it is expected about 95 African students will be here by the beginning of the 1964 academic year. The Special Commonwealth Aid to Africa Plan was established art a meeting of the Commonwealth Economic Consultative Committee, in September, 1960, to assist African Commonwealth countries that had recently attained or were approaching independence. The New Zealand Government approved expenditure up to £lOO,OOO a year, beginning in the 1961-62 financial year. Initial offers of assistance by the Dominion have, been mainly for undergraduate study courses.

Experience under the Colombo Plan has shown New Zealand cap offer valuable training in technical education, agriculture, engineering and mining, dairy technology

and school dental nursing.

Of particular Interest is the establishment of a school dental service in Ghana on the lines of the New Zealand scheme.

A. senior official of the Ghanaian Health Department studied the administration of the scheme in 1961 and since then several young Ghanaian girls have begun two-year training courses at the Wellington Dental Clinic,