مجموعة ١/٥٤أ(س) "لجنة الشرق الأوسط (الرسمية): إعادة الإعمار" [ظ‎‎٤] (٣٢٣/٩)

( c ) ' A-e^i-efrance in eduaation and technical training
providod by foreign firmg in ’the Middle ^aet,
4. Certain British and American firms, and in particular
the oil companies, are carrying out an extensive programme^or
assistance to the countries in which they operate in the fields
of education and technical training. The Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company may be cited as an example. The AIOG is building
and eqiiiping primary and secondary schools in the Khuzistan
Province, which on completion are handed over to the Ministry of
Education; it has provided laboratory equipment for the
science and enginerring faculties at the University at
Tehran; it provides' a large number of scholarships for
Persian students to take university or technical courses in
this country, (in 1948* 66 students were thus provided for);
and it provides for a large number of vocational training
schemes in Abadan for Persian trainees in different grades,
These include short six-months’ courses for various semi
skilled occupations; five year courses to train boys as low
grade artisans; five year courses to train boys as high grade
artisans and foremen; 3 year courses in commerce and technology
of secondary school standard designed to produce stenographers,
accountants, general clerks and technical junior staff itn the
engineering side; and finally, a five year course for technical
trainees of University standard, involving the possibility of
obtaining a Company University Scholarship in the United
Kingdom.
5 * (d) T he Services of the Development .Divigion of the
British Middle East Office , which was established in 1946, are
available to the Middle East Governments at their request. The
Division includes .advisers in agriculture, forestry, animal
husbandry, entomology, labour, health and statistics, and a
co-operative adviser may shortly be appointed.
(e) British Council.
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6. The British Council arranges lecture tours to the
Middle East countries of Britisn specialists in economic and
social, as well as in cultural subjects. Examples are the
recent visit of the Chief Nursing Adviser to the Ministry
of Health to lecture in Iraq and Syria, a recent lecture
tour by a senior expert in disinfestation, and a tour which
has now been arranged for Sir Malcolm Darling, a senior expert
on rural cooperation. The British Council also arranges for
visits of Middle East experts and leading scientific and
technical authorities to this country tj make contact with
scientific and research institutions hero, and provides a
number of scholarships‘for Middle East graduate and post
graduate students to study in British Universities. At
present there are nearly 40 British Council Scholars bursars
from the Middle East. (There are also over 100 Egyptian
students, and a considerable number of others of Middle East
nationalities, studying here under their own or their
Government’s‘.auspices) . The British Council also provides
certain Professors for the American University at Beirut and
maintains a students* hostel there.
(f) Technical assistance given to the Middle East
\ by British administered territories .
7. The Government of Cyprus has recently established a
Forestry Training School which is designed to accommodate
/Middle East...,.