A free and pluralistic society is maintained by constitutional guarantees and an educated populace. Nigeria, like other nations in West Africa, spent billions of dollars and embarked on a program of mass educational improvement in the 1960's and 1970's. While secondary school enrollment increased eleven times between 1962 and 1975, over half the…

The document reports on a symposium, sponsored by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization), designed to develop strategies for improving educational, health, and social service to handicapped children and their families, particularly in developing nations. Section 1 is an overview of the background and organization…

The Committee on Foreign Relations met to hear testimony regarding the immediate crisis and the underlying causes of famine in Africa. To address this problem President Reagan had proposed a supplemental request for African assistance in food, transportation, and support. Those testifying were asked to address the efforts that the United States…

Adult education in Kenya is mainly concerned with dissemination of technology and ideas to rural production units to increase awareness and innovativeness. Systematic weakness in the development of communication as a major concommitant to the design of development programs and the development of ideas is discussed. (Author/EA)

The values, implied in a development ethic based in Euro-American cultural traditions and used as a standard for international aid policies, are questioned with respect to their applicability to Third World needs. (JH)

This statement of criteria and policy for the United States Agency for International Development, AID, is accompanied by proposed areas of educational emphasis: 1) educational economics and analysis, 2) education technology, 3) non formal education, and 4) strengthened higher education for national development. (JH)

Concludes that Freedom of the press is a function of subsystem autonomy in an overall political system. (Author/RB)

A visit was made to Dacca University to survey the acquisition of Soviet Union and United States monographs and journals. The project was undertaken to ascertain the influence of the USSR on the intellectuals of Bangladesh in comparison to that of the United States. It was discovered that, since 1972, the USSR has supplied very few publications to…

Descriptions of adult education programs and services at: Gujarat Vidyapith, Delhi public library, University of Calcutta, Bombay social education committee, social education office at Belgaum, Adult Education Association in Madras, Karnataka State adult education council, the Seva Mandir at Udaipur, and Eastern U.P. Adult Education Association…

Paper brings together available information on the cost of instructional radio and television and develops a methodology for analyzing that information. (Author)

The paper examines the suitability and effectiveness of the radio study group campaigns. The radio programs combine written study materials and group discussion under the guidance of a trained study leader. Ideological and pedagogical rationales, educational impact, coordination of resources, cost, and its success with illiteracy are discussed.…

General education must serve today to broaden man's horizons beyond the shores of America to encompass the needs of a global inter-dependent society within the nation-state framework. (Author)

Improved planning, priorities, administration, and an emphasis on quality rather than quantity are recommended for educational assistance to developing nations. (DE)