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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — East and Central African Territories – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 January 1959.

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Photo of Miss Joan Vickers Miss Joan Vickers , Plymouth, Devonport 12:00, 20 January 1959

Does not the hon. Gentleman thing it better for African students to take their complete degrees in their country of origin, where they can have the understanding of their people, rather than come here first for postgraduate work? It is difficult to assimilate knowledge here and then go back with it to their own people if they have not first had the proper background.