should facilitate consideration of the recommendations and the 

 summary report of the Working Group by the forthcoming plenary 

 session of the Commission. With this In mind. Ambassador 

 McKernan suggested drawing the Commission's attention to a 

 number of specific points which came up In earlier discussion 

 and were later summarized by Dr. Carranza. He also pointed 

 out. In connection with Recommendation 8 of the Working 

 Group, that if the World Data Centres (WDC's) were to prepare 

 and maintain a catalogue of information on training programs, 

 this task should be performed by the WDC's on a temporary basis 

 pending full assumption of this task by the IOC. 



Recommendation 9*12 w^-S adopted under this agenda item. 



Recommendation 9-12 



The Bureau, having examined together with the 

 Consultative Council the Recommendations of the 1st 

 Meeting of the IOC Working Group on Training and 

 Education in Oceanography, resolved to transmit 

 these Recommendations and the Summary Report of the 

 Group to the Sixth Session of the IOC for considera- 

 tion and acceptance drawing, however, the Commission's 

 attention to the lack of agreement between the Members 

 of the Consultative Council on Recommendation 7 con- 

 cerning a new Program of Intergovernmental Oceano- 

 graphlc Commission Research and Training Fellowships, 

 this presenting a problem still to be resolved by 

 the Commission. 



The Bureau also draws the Commission's atten- 

 tion to the desirability of changing the title of 

 the group into: "IOC Working Group on Training and 

 Education in Marine Sciences" and to the necessity 

 of amplifying the Recommendations of the Working Group 

 concerning: 



a) regional aspects of training programmes 



b) training of specialists for the IGOSS 

 program 



c) IOC's serving as a focal point for informa- 

 tion on training and education in marine 

 science . 



The Bureau instructs the Secretary to transmit 

 the Recommendations and Summary Report of the Group 

 to COFI/FAO Sub-Committee on Education and Training 

 in Fisheries for information and comments prior to 

 their consideration by the Sixth IOC Session. 



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