Editor's Notes
| Date | 01 April 1961 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1961.tb01263.x |
| Published date | 01 April 1961 |
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
Volume
XIII·
Number
2 •
April
I961
Editor's Notes
WE referred in
the
last issue
of
the
Journal to
the
committee
set
up
by
the
Lord
Chancellor
under
the
chairmanship
of
Lord
Denning
to
study
and
report
on
legal
education
for students from Africa.
The
report
of
the
committee was
presentedto
Parliament
on
the
18thJanuary.
At
page
118
of
this issue we
publish
a
summary
of
the
main
recommendations
and
Chapter
III
of
the
report
in full.
This
chapter
deals
with
basic legal education, asubject
of
particular
concern
to all responsible for
the
development
of
local or
native
courts.
The
Denning
Report
is
the
more
welcome because it comes
at
atime
when
all
governments in Africa
are
busy exploring means
of
implementing
and
improving
their
training
facilities so
that
local officers
can
play
an
increasingly
bigger
part
in
the
administration
of
their
territories
at
all levels. Existing
training
facilities in Africa
have
accomplished
much
in
the
past
by
way
of
general
training
but
the
emphasis is now moving to specialized training.
We
are
pleased to publish two accounts
of
the
training
facilities offered in
Central
and
East
Africa.
Mr.
A. C.
North,
in his article Rural Local Government
Training in Northern Rhodesia describes the
work
of
the
Native
Authority
Develop-
ment
Centre
at
Chalimbana.
The
growth
of
this
Centre
since
the
first chiefs'
courses were
held
in 1953 is impressive.
In
addition
to
the
continued
training
of
chiefs, councillors
and
native
courts staff, its scope has widened to include
courses for African business
men,
farmers
and
civil servants, including
European
officers. We
understand
that
further
developments
are
in
the
air.
The
second
account,
Training in Local Government, by
Mr.
R. G. Prosser, deals
with
two
aspects
of
training
in
Kenya-the
in-service type
of
training
undertaken
within
the
councils themselves
and
the
course facilities offered
at
the
Jeanes
School,
Kabete.
A
third
aspect
of
training
is by
attachments
to local authorities in the
United
Kingdom
or as members of a supervised course such as one
of
those
described in
the
October
1960 issue
of
this Journal.
At
a
higher
level
of
training
we include adescription by
Mr.
A. S. Livingstone
of
the
facilities provided for overseas
government
servants by a one-year course
in
public
administration
in
the
University
of
Manchester.
The
course is
designed
primarily
to
meet
the
needs
of
civil servants
who
have
had
at
least
seven to
ten
years' experience
and
have
completed some
academic
studies in
their
own
countries.
In
the
April 1960 issue
ofthe]ournal
we published
an
article by
Mr.
H.
Cory
explaining
the
political reforms
being
undertaken
in
the
local
government
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