| Abstract: | The paper discusses the policy of third country training, i.e. the efforts by the economically more developed countries to provide, through their aid programmes, the opportunity for students from the less developed countries to study at educational institutions outside the donor's country. The current practices in this area of the major aid-granting Commonwealth countries—Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain—are examined along with the advantages and limitations of such training and suggestions are put forward for overcoming some of the problems which arise from efforts to implement this policy. One of these is for the development of ‘centres of excellence’ of a type somewhat different from the ones normally proposed. The paper discusses what should be the nature and purpose of such institutions if one of their aims is to permit them to make a significant contribution to increasing our understanding of the problems of the less developed countries and facilitate further the flow of students between them. |
