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- 1985 - 1994 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
A total of xx boxes or xx cubic feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Peter Williams was the Director of the Education Programme, Human Resource Development Group of the Commonwealth Secretariat. He was also a Professor of Education in Developing Countries at the University of London, Institute of Education. In addition, he also worked as consultant in educational development. Prof. Williams was part of the Commission on Higher Education in Namibia.
Repository
Archival history
The collection from UK was donated to UNAM by Prof. Williams and received at UNAM in April 2015, Windhoek.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Prof. Williams
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The Williams collection contains materials which relate to the development of education in Namibia. Through the work of the Commission on Higher Education, the collection documents the plans for education in a new independent Namibia including the establishment of the University of Namibia. The materials in the collection mostly constitute raw documents that were collected by the Commission as part of its consultation. All are paper documents.
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Accruals
System of arrangement
The majority of the documents were numbered as Document 1 – 152 and this numbering has been maintained by the archivist and became part of the archives reference number. Other documents which came with no numbering have been listed and given archives reference numbers.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Only up to a maximum of a third of a file can be reproduced.
Language of material
Afrikaans
English
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Language(s)
English