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...plan designed to send Harvard graduates to teach secondary school in Nigeria would be in the best interests of the new nation, Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said last night. Keppel was a member of the Ashby Commission, an international group of experts which presented recommendations for Nigeria's educational system to the country's new federal government...
...Keppel emphasized that Nigeria "must expand its secondary schools rapidly in the next ten years, in order to be able to produce a number of reasonably highly educated people...
...this period when expansion of secondary education is so important, Keppel said, "we do not have in Nigeria people qualified to teach in secondary schools." The Ashby Commission plan would provide "a number of British-American teachers to fill in while Nigerians are being trained...
...good idea to have the administrative arrangements improved," Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said of the commission's determination to streamline the state University system. He compared the New York State University to a holding company, pointing out that it had "no campus of its own" and "no central focus...
...Keppel was "clearly in agreement" with the committee's plan to change teachers' colleges in New York to "general purpose," or liberal arts, institutions. He was wary of state aid to private sectarian schools, however, saying, "The proposal in this regard is a difficult...