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| Description | Papers from a folder labelled 'Overseas Initiatives' at the Institute of Education, mostly concerned with initiatives and efforts to attract more international students to the Institute. These documents contain information about relations between the Institute and educational institutions in the following countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Japan, USA, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, Brunei, Cyprus, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, India, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Brazil, the former Yugoslavia, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and China. This also includes communications between the Institute and other organisations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, the EEC (now the European Union), the British Council, and a Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups (1981).
The papers in this file include the following:
- internal correspondence and reports from various departments at the Institute, regarding the recruitment of international students;
- correspondence with educational institutions in various other countries;
- memos regarding the establishment of an External Relations Office;
- formal agreements of cooperation and collaboration between the Institute and educational institutions in other countries;
- articles, press cuttings and newsletters regarding international students;
- information about the structure of courses;
- two bound 1979 reports by the Overseas Student Trust: ‘Overseas Students And Government Policy 1962-1979’, and ‘Overseas Students in Britain; Some Facts And Figures’. |