Following a survey of the establishment and development of the school, an outline is presented of courses taught, admission requirements, and qualifications attained. The school has answered a serious need in the area of information and library training in East Africa. (Author)

The International Geological Correlation Project has attained scientific maturity and broad support and participation by geologists world wide. Its purpose is to provide a mechanism for international cooperation and information exchange about geological problems that transcend national boundaries. (Author/BB)

Discusses collection and analysis of social statistics in developing nations. Concludes that all social statistical programs should stress an approach of integrated and limited improvements related to issues of major concern and aiming to produce timely and reliable information. For journal availability, see SO 506 201. (Author/DB)

To help develop the resources of Nigeria by increasing efficiency and production in agriculture, agricultural education is being promoted in the secondary school system. Some agricultural education projects are listed. (MF)

Author states women need education to exercise economic/political rights and to qualify for better employment. Without education, women will be ignorant of legal status and its improvement. Not educating women deprives international community of maximum intellectual benefits. Such abilities are needed for success of global understanding. (PD)

India's National Adult Education Program ( NAEP), which focuses on the needs of illiterate adults in the 15-35 age group, is described with particular attention given to the importance of improving occupational skills and raising the level of awareness regarding the predicament of the poor and illiterate. (LBH)

The art of communication is examined along with the need for improvement in spoken English in West Africa. Recommendations for improving the general standard of the language in the nation are offered. (LBH)

Describes some new programs within existing universities in Southeast Asian countries that are helping to meet developmental needs, and stresses, along with the need for international university cooperation, the need for regional institutional cooperation. (RK)

Argues that in the more commonly used approaches to comparative education there has been lacking an adequate theoretical base upon which any country could with confidence know how to learn from another country's educational experience what would be useful for its own development. (Author/RK)

Reviews United States foreign aid support of chemistry in Latin America and the scientific and economic growth in that area. (SL)

The direct deployability for the improvement of national and international agricultural research in developing countries, with the prime objective of strenthening the position of small farmers, was the crux of several symposia at Wageningen, in the east Netherlands. It focused on world food production and international cooperation in agricultural…

Experimental broadcasting satellites make possible a cooperative and inexpensive communications system for use in remote areas of the world. Considered are their historical background, news dissemination, the SITE Project in India, NASA's ATS satellites, satellite classroom instruction, and Caribbean interests. (LBH)

The need for close relationships within national higher education systems is of crucial importance if nations of the world, both developing and developed, are to fulfill their educational obligations. Focus is on balance between individual institutional assignments and common commitments of national systems. (Author/LBH)

Formal educational structures create social inequities which nonformal schooling can partially remedy in developing countries. The author describes the potential usefulness of nonformal education in mass education, reducing urban and rural differentiation, and providing job credentials. Programs can be operated within primary schools or community…

Explores the nature of book publishing as a communications industry on a global level. Looking only at nonfiction in academic, scholarly, educational, and reference spheres, the author reviews the effects of transnational publishing on readers and authors. He concludes that internationalism is an intellectual benefit, but that metropolitan…