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Teaching and Education

Recommendation 39 (1950)

Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Adopted 24th August 1950, at the conclusion of the Debate on the Report from the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions.

The Assembly,

Having considered seriatim the conclusions of the Report of the Governmental Experts who met in Strasbourg from 28th to 30th June, 1950, notes with satisfaction that the Committee of Ministers has adopted both the preamble of the Report and the proposals relating to the conditions for the equivalence of diplomas and university degrees in Member States of the Council of Europe. It further notes that the Committee of Ministers has submitted the other proposals contained in the Report to the attention of Governments.

The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers decide :

(a) That another meeting of Experts be convened before the end of November, 1950, in which two members of the Cultural Committee will take part in a consultative capacity.

(b) That the principal object of the meeting be to assess the results already obtained in regard to the conclusions of the experts on Items 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the first part of the Report. These conclusions cover all questions of a pedagogic and didactic nature implied in the Recommendations adopted by the Assembly at its First Session.

(c) That the Committee of Experts subsequently address a detailed Report, consisting of a complete survey of the situation, to the Committee of Ministers and to the Secretariat.General and that this Report be communicated before the end of November to members of the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions.

The Assembly invites the Governmental Experts to encourage the efforts of countries fostering forms of culture which, while peculiar to them, have a universal value.