Word: keppell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moves at the University to establish a youth corps of graduating seniors to teach in Nigeria. Because only 50 of the teachers in the State Department project will be college graduates without teaching experience, only a very few Harvard seniors might be attracted to the program, according to Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...taking its place in a technological civilization." The commission urged Nigeria to boost sharply teacher and technical training, to triple secondary-school enrollment, and create two new universities with a total of at least 7,500 students by 1970. Cost: about $135 million. One commission member, Dean Francis Keppel of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, called it "a task of frightening importance...
...Ashby program is "not in competition" with plans such as the one put forth recently by Leon D. Bramson, instructor of Social Relations, Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Student Office, and Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., instructor in Government, Keppel said...
...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...