A brief resume of literacy, adult education, and rural development activities have been abstracted from the UNESCO Director-General's report for 1974. (LH)

Reviewing the activities of the Literacy Corps in Iran, the article examines the national service organization which has done much to combat illiteracy in rural areas and lower the national rate of illiteracy. (MW)

Experiments with educational satellites and problems of cost and organization connected with their use are reviewed. Ground-based radio and television instruction, properly programed, may be effectively used by poor countries; but mass educational satellite broadcasting does not appear to be economically feasible. (MF)