Personnel policy of the United Nations: question of educational facilities for the children of staff members

IX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
883. Personnel policy of the United Nations: question of educational facilities for the children of staff members

The General Assembly, Having examined the report[1] of the Secretary-General on personnel policy, paragraphs 22 to 26 of which deal with problems relating to the education grant established under the staff regulations, and the fifteenth report[2] of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to the ninth session of the General Assembly, Considering that the education grant was established with the purpose of enabling the children of staff members, despite the fact that their parents were expatriated, to benefit from the influence of their national characteristics in their education,

1. Notes with satisfaction the Secretary-General's statement that the question of educational facilities is being studied by the International Civil Service Advisory Board;

2. Requests the International Civil Service Advisory Board to consider appropriate measures for providing children of staff members with special facilities for the study of their mother tongue in cases where they are obliged to attend local schools in which the instruction is given in a language other than the mother tongue;

3. Recommends the Secretary-General, in preparing his report on the staff regulations for submission to the General Assembly at its tenth session, to give special consideration to the question whether measures should be taken to make a larger number of staff members than at present eligible for the benefit of the education grant.

512th plenary meeting,
14 December 1954.


[1] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item 54, document A/2777. [2] Ibid., document A/2788.
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