Educational Advancement in Non-Self-Governing Territories

A/RES/1050(XI)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1957.

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2 versions · 1955–1957

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1957	A/RES/1050(XI)	Educational advancement in Non-Self-Governing Territories	694	17%Compare
1955	A/RES/845(IX)	Educational advancement in Non-Self-Governing Territories	538	–

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6 subjects

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

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Recalling its resolution 743 (VIII) of 27 November 1953 which sets forth, inter alia, the objectives of education in Non-Self-Governing Territories and recommends that the Administering Members make the greatest possible use of offers that may be made to them by other States Members of the United Nations through the Secretary-General or through the specialized agencies concerned or in other appropriate ways by such means as making available fellowships, scholarships etc.

C onsidering that the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories, in its 1956 report,11 suggests, as one of the means of attaining those objectives, the creation, where it does not already exist, of effective local machinery by which educational policy can be settled and educational programmes put into effect,

Convinced that, if such local machinery is to elicit the interest and support of organs of public opinion in the Territories, it must include appropriately qualified indigenous inhabitants of the area as soon as there are available in the Territories a sufficient number of suitably qualified persans,

Considering that the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories also states in its report that the representatives attending its meetings General Auembly-Eleventh Seaion

from many countries have much to contribute from their own experience,

C onsidering further that it would be desirable, in order that that experience may make a more effective contribution to the advancement of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, to enlist the co-operation of qualified experts from Member States-preferably States in the same geographical region as the Non-Self-Governing Territories concerned-and to use their knowledge in solving local educational problems,

N oting that, in line with the provisions of Article 73 d of the Charter of the United Nations, Members administering Non-Self-Governing Territories in the same geographical region have established inter-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,

Reaffirms the view expressed in resolution 743

(VIII) 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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