Show i Africans to College i Kenya Collegians Want To Learn But Africans must plan more intelligently if they are going to send their students to American warns Albert G. vice president of Institute for International THIS PAST summer Sims was sent to Kenya by the Kennedy Foundation to aid the education-hungry Africans to get to the U.S. His report on the operation is published in the April issue of Harper's Although the African students had scholarships to American colleges and a promise from the Kennedy Foundation of air they still encountered great difficulties getting out of reports were vying for the nearly seats on the chartered planes and lacked only one formal qualification to get abroad he get a the student must show that he had the money to tuition for a year plus Few of the applicants initially could meet these cash BECAUSE OF Sims he found himself in a hectic round of fund-raising instead of performing the job he had been 3 sent to Africa to The Kenya government also objected to the young people leaving the Their according to The program was a political rather than an education The students had inadequate 3 NO COMPARATIVE selection of students was made with the that a large failure rate would The U.S. colleges the students were to attend had been selected without proper THIS EXODUS of students from Kenya would deplete the attendance at local in spite of the difficulties faced by African students Sims states that next to education is the great goal of Africans and the major plank in the platform of their HE CITES statistics that show that in most of Africa south of the one child in 65 completes 8 years of one in attends secondary and only one in goes to a college of any |