A brief review of the world affairs field and what Americans are thinking, writing, and doing about them. Many items are appropriate for teacher and classroom use. (Author)

Discusses the role of vocational education in the technological advancement of Germany and the political, economic, and social forces which affect the development of education. (SB)

S.G. Pendse, Director of Training within the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation of the Indian Central Government, describes how instructor training has been organised for industrial development. (Editor)

Article discusses over-education and the unemployed. Schools as profit-making enterprises would be more successful than the present too expensive system which is economically unproductive. (Author/MM)

Expected sharp gains in farm output may fail to help the poor if agrarian reforms are not carried out. (Editor)

Three books about Nigeria are discussed in terms of the relationship between education and politics. (MF)

Joint responsibility of education authorities and the Department of Manpower and Immigration is to accelerate research and to develop programs which will ease the process of adjustment to changing conditions in manpower demand. The inevitable prerequisite of closer matching of demand for and supply of qualified manpower is increased specialization…

Examines how Third World education systems reproduce social and economic inequalities; how the international economic order is founded on unfair mechanisms that perpetuate inequality; and the role that groups in the United Nations family must play in the establishment of a New International Economic Order. (RM)

Development education, to increase understanding and awareness of the plight of underdeveloped countries and of the interdependence of nations, is being carried out through television programs on Britain's Channel Four by the International Broadcasting Trust. (SK)

Suggests that education seen as an individual right complemented with its social dimension has been, in the case of Chile, a means of uniting the country and avoiding social disparities; however, when education is seen as an economic tool or means for development, conflict can appear in the form of civil war (AH)

For future studies to prove their value in those nations seeking to advance rapidly and to raise the standard of living of their inhabitants, they will need to develop new methods and new goals. Some of these are suggested and discussed. (Author/RM)

Approaches to teaching the dynamics of development at South Africa's National University of Lesotho are criticized. Teaching development geography, which focuses on articulation and class formation and which rejects the spatial approach, is detrimental to the geography department. The objective should be to provide technical skills unavailable…

The dilemma of whether to expand higher education systems in Thailand or to curtail enrollments by some means of cut-off or selection at the end of secondary school are discussed. A variety of higher education models in use in the Third World countries are discussed. (Author/MLW)