Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 85

Title: Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries

Date(s): 1961 - 1962

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 2 boxes

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries

Administrative/Biographical history: The Committee was set up in December 1961, to advise the Secretary for Technical Co-operation on the training facilities in public administration and related subjects provided in the UK for government servants and other public employees from overseas, and the arrangements for assistance from the UK in building up local facilities in this field; and report on their adequacy for present and forseeable future demand. It met several times over the next year, receiving written and oral evidence from numerous parties, and reported back at the end of 1962.

Archival history: The records are presumed (from internal evidence) to have been accumulated by Mrs EM Chilver, a member of the Committee, and remained in her custody until they were donated to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at an unknown date.

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: Records of the Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries, 1961-1962: comprising records of the planning of work, and draft reports; draft minutes of committee meetings; general memoranda and notes; memoranda and reports relating to training in Britain from organisations, institutions and individuals; memoranda and reports relating to overseas trainingfrom organisations, institutions and individuals; general papers and miscellaneous correspondence, publications and reports.

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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Open, subject to usual conditions

Conditions governing reproduction: Usual conditions: note that much of material is in Crown Copyright

Language/scripts of material: English

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Related units of description: Official records of the Committee are available at the Public Record Office, Kew (ref OD19); many of the items in the set at ICS are duplicates of these.

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Government

Public administration

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Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries

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