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THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has come one step nearer as a result of the fourth session of the Preparatory Commission held in London during February 11 and 12. Under the chairmanship of Miss Ellen Wilkinson, British Minister of Education, and of Mr. Donald Stone, U.S.A. delegate, the Commission considered a wide field of suggested activities. As at present envisaged, the Organisation consists of the following committees: A, Humanities and Sciences ; B, Education ; C, Media of Mass Communication ; D, Libraries, Museums, Exchanges, Publications, Special Projects ; E, Organisation Issues. Some of these committees are subdivided again into sub-committees ; thus Committee A has sub-committees on philosophy, arts, social sciences and natural and pure sciences. The sub-committee on natural and pure sciences is to review and make recommendations upon international co-operation in the field of those sciences. The sub-committee on social sciences will be responsible for planning activities, including the interchange of men and ideas, in those sciences, their application to contemporary international problems, the organisation of international study conferences and institutes, etc. Committee B (Education) will deal with matters relating to education at all levels, including adult education. It may be necessary for this committee to establish ad hoc sub-committees, but it was felt that in order to emphasize the continuity of the educational process, from the nursery school to the university and beyond, as much as possible of the planning should be done by the committee as a whole. The Preparatory Commission is still awaiting the ratification, or at least the acceptance, of its charter by a sufficient number of Governments, before the secretariat can move to its permanent headquarters in Paris. Great Britain and Belgium have already accepted the constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and the United States are expected to do so in the very near future.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Nature 157, 221–222 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157221d0
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