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 1768 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. AGREEMENT ON VOCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH OF THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL AND THE INTER-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC. The Ministry of Education and Health of the United States of Brazil (hereinafter called the "Ministry of Education"), and the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc., a corporation of the Office of Inter-American Affairs and an agency of the Government of the United States of America (hereinafter called the "Foundation"), have decided to enter into the following agreement to undertake a cooperative educational program to promote Inter-American under- standing by bringing about a better interchange of educators, educa- tional ideas and methods between Brazil and the United States of America, pursuant to Resolution 28 adopted by the First Conference of Ministers and Directors of Education of the American Republics held in Panama in September and October of 1943. Clause I Objectives. The objectives of this cooperative educational program are: a) The development of closer relations between teachers of voca- tional education in the United States of Brazil and the United States of America; b) the interchange and training of Brazilian and United States specialists in vocational education; c) the development of such other projects in the field of vocational education as may be of mutual interest to the parties. Clause II Methods. The methods of carrying out the said cooperative educational pro- gram are expected to include: a) The furnishing by the Foundation of a small Field Staff of specialists in vocational education to collaborate in the realization of the cooperative educational program; b) The development and realization, in cooperation with various Brazilian authorities, of programs related to: 1- Studies and surveys relative to the educational needs of Brazil and of the United States of America, especially in the field of vocational education, and of the resources which are available to meet them; 2-Grants to permit Brazilian administrators, educators, and special service personnel to go to the United States of America to study, to lecture, to teach and to interchange ideas and experiences with administrators, educators, and specialists in the United States of America; 3- The organization and development of teacher-training pro- grams in vocational education;

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