Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0101 ICS 85
Held at	: Institute of Commonwealth Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/resources/library ›
Full title	: Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries
Date(s)	: 1961-1962
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries, 1961-1962: comprising records of 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 training from organisations, institutions and individuals; general papers, and miscellaneous correspondence, publications and reports.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers are divided according to the type of record. The first section comprises papers concerning the planning and reporting of work undertaken by the Committee; the second contains minutes of meetings; and the remainder are series of correspondence received.

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or Freedom of Information legislation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

A photocopying service is available at the discretion of the ICS Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or quote from original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager. Much of the material is in Crown Copyright.

Finding aids:

Catalogued to item level (see link to repository catalogue).

Archival Information

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.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

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.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled 2000, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Created 20/06/2000 ICS Archives 1, modified 17/07/2001