Churchill Fellowship, 1972

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

David Sloper was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1972, while working as the Localisation (Staff) Officer at the University of Papua New Guinea. During the course of the Fellowship he conducted study tours of universities in Malawi, Uganda, India, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya to ‘examine the process of Africanisation of the administrative staff of various universities and look at adult and community education programmes’ and ‘to examine the process of localisation of the administrative staff of several universities and look at the administrative organisation and procedures within each organisation’.

The series comprises information on the Churchill Trust, a telegram, newspaper cutting, correspondence, itinerary, reports, notes and correspondence. Also included are pamphlets from countries and institutions visited. Letters are from Roly Gill, Anthony Roland-Jones and Ivor G. Meddleton.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library by David Sloper through the University of New England Archives in 1997

Names:

David Sloper

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