An International Training Course, financed by the Australian Government, will be held in Canberra, Australia from 23 February to 2 April 1977. The course will consist of a two weeks' lecture series and participation in the Third World Consultation on Forest Tree Breeding, including pre- and post-consultation study tours. There will be about twenty participants.
All candidates must be nominated by the competent external aid authority of the Government concerned. An invitation to nominate candidates for the Course was to be sent to selected countries in mid-1976.
The selected countries from which candidates may be nominated are as follows:
Colombo Plan: Afghanistan, Bangla Desh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
South Pacific Aid Programme: Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Tonga Islands, Western Samoa.
Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan: Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
Australia - Papua New Guinea Education and Training Scheme: Papua New Guinea.
Australian International Awards Scheme: Vietnam, West Indies countries.
The objective of the Course is to enable forest officers to study intensively the current methods of tree breeding and to discuss related problems in practice with their Australian counterparts and their counterparts from other countries.
It is expected that the candidates will hold a degree or a post-graduate diploma in Forestry and be middle level officials responsible for development and implementation of forest tree breeding in afforestation programmes in their own countries. They must be fluent in the English language.
As mentioned above, all nominations must go through the respective governments. Any enquiries as to the technical content of the course should be addressed to:
Division of Forest Research
C.S.I.R.O.
Box 4008
Canberra A.C.T. 2600
Australia.
