SITE is an experimental project which would provide vital inputs in designing and executing a satellite-based instructional television system, particularly in rural areas, to stimulate national development in India with important managerial, economic, technological, and social implications. (Author/BP)

Television programs, utilizing the satellite to reach rural disadvantaged groups in six States in Central and Eastern India, will broadcast instructional information in four dialects. Program development and effectiveness are discussed, with implementation planned for August 1975. (LH)

A recent educational reform in India is the restructuring of the years spent in elementary-secondary, higher secondary, and higher education according to a 10+2+3 year pattern. Addressed is the 2-year higher secondary stage, a study of this stage as it was implemented in Bombay, and the problems associated with its implementation. (JMD)

Noting that the success of nonformal education in India depends on an instructor, the author outlines the content of an instructor training program which emphasizes academic content and practical training. Each of the six units of the academic content area are described along with an outline of the 6-day practical training session. (TA)

Part of a report of seminar proceedings, these papers on community development in developing nations deal largely with conditions, requirements, and effective principles of rural extension; the government system of community development village workers in outlying regions of Thailand; the methods, organization, accomplishments, and prospects of…