Constitution of the African Institute for higher technical training and research

Abstract

The prevailing shortage of middle and higher level technical manpower, particularly at the technician and technologist levels constitutes in African countries a real "bottle-neck to the achievement of accelerated economic and social development and consequently the elimination of this’ bottle-neck is a vital task that deserves urgent and priority action that the magnitude of the task of technical manpower development in African States calls for concerted efforts and co-operation in developing and utilizing appropriate training, research, and consultancy programmes and facilities5