Describes pilot project in adult basic education, part of a national development scheme, which was instituted in 1967 with the help of Unesco and the U.N. Development Programme. (JB)

Examines the nature, application, limits and potential of applied genetics in plant breeding as a factor in South Asian agricultural development. Concludes other factors were also present in recent agricultural growth, and indicates some economic implications of continued growth, including problems of employment of displaced rural workers. (AL)

Author reports on an attempt at a measurement of innovativeness of farmers in two villages whose members took part in a program devised to make them receptive to, and convinced of, modern practices in farming, health, socio-political relations over traditional ones. (Editor/LF)

Author discusses the types of preparation that will best enable the overseas student of home economics to meet her country's needs when she returns home. (Author)

The second of a two-part paper by Unesco's Director of the Division of Educational Methods, Materials and Techniques. This part looks at the field of educational technology and makes some suggestions for the policy which should be adopted in the future development of education. (AA)

Heckling of government ministers speaking at a seminar sponsored by the extra-mural department of the university in Uganda has brought about changes in program policy for the department. The outcome may be the downgrading of liberal education. It would be a tragedy if the Uganda government were to decide that liberal education was of necessity…

The project director briefly outlines the Niger experiment in primary education by television and discusses some of the program's problems and results. (AA)

Program uses peer observers in lieu of videotapes; includes teaching of both peers and actual students. (RT)

The author attacks present school systems as hindrances to education, arguing that everyone has a right to an equal part of a nation's educational budget. One solution he proposes is to offer everyone an equal share of public resources by providing both children and adults with one month of intensive education each year, and supplementing this…

Any attempt to improve the quantity of education within a given country will always result in leaving a greater mass of people undereducated according to the standards of that country. (CK)