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3. IOC, through its programme of mutual assistance, and through close cooperation 

 with other organizations of the United Nations family, should assist member 

 states and facilit.\te their individual activities in the establishment of 

 training programmes and units, in the provision of foreign teaching personnel, 

 in the further training of local teaching personnel, in the provision of 

 teaching materials (particularly textbooks), and in the granting of fellowships 

 for the exchange of students and teachers within regions; 



4. Within the limits of its statutory authority, IOC should assist universities, 

 at their request, in obtaining basic curricula and attendant guidance. For 

 this purpose the IOC Secretariat staff should be encouraged to draw upon 

 facilities of member nations and consultative services, such as SCOR; 



(the member nations, in turn may wish to designate a responsible individual 

 contact person for training matters); 



5 . Graduate students must be given r.dequate opportunity for sea-shore and 

 sea-going work. National oceanographic committees should ensure that 

 appropriate facilities are made available taking advantage of the possibilities 

 of regional cooperation. 



6. The Working Group recognized the outstanding success of the Unesco fellowship 

 programme in marine science, particularly under its Regular Programme. It 

 also recognized that, for the purposes of the long-term expanded programme 

 of oceanic research as proposed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations 

 (Doc. E/4487), this and other similar fellowship programme arc still subject 

 to the following limitations: 



a. Their overall scale remains at a level insufficient to meet even 

 present deman'".s, and would therefore be quite inadequate to satisfy 

 the demands resulting from forthcoming expansion of marine science 

 research programmes. 



b. While fellowships of six to nine months' duration are suitable for 

 various kinds of specialized training and small research projects 

 (if well prepared in advance), they are too short for following 

 complete courses in basic disciplines of marine science. 



c. Extensions of fellowships, though relatively simple operations under 

 Regular Programmes of the UN agencies, may involve complicated 

 procedures under the United Natioiir Development Programme, (Technical 

 Assistance sectors). 



d. Time factors involved and selection practices are such that awards 

 under the Regular Fellowship Programme (Unesco) cannot be used as 

 an instrument t3 achieve balanced training of personnel in different 

 professions, which will be needed in relation to the expanded 

 programme of international cooperation with which IOC is concerned. 



e. Although ship-board fellowships have recently gained considerable 

 importance in the programmes of both Unesco and FAO , greater speed, 

 flexibility, and efficiency are needed in handling both the offers 

 and applications for such fellowships. Similar considerations apply 

 to studies of seasonal phenomena. 



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