{"book":"adl0981","page":33,"text":"Technical Assistance for Technical Schools :\nForeign technical assistance is received by schools from different sources. We give below the names of such sources and the nature and amount of assistance received during the past one year :—\n1—U.N.E.S.C.O. :\nThis world organisation has given valuable assistance to the School of Mechanics at Kandahar. The greater part of the foreign instructors, machines and tools for this school came from this organisation. The director and two instructors were engaged at U.N.E.S.C.O. expense in Germany. These persons are engaged in directing the instructional affairs of the school with the assistance of their Afghan counterparts. The work-shops and training imparted in this school can be favourably compared to that of progressive countries.\n2—The United States International Co-operation Administration :\nAssistance given by this organisation is\n\nreceived through two teams sent by American universities :—\n(a) The Wyoming Team :\nThis team co-operates with the Depart-ment of Vocational Education in matters relating to technological subjects and its activities are limited to technical and agricultural projects. This assistance takes the form of technical personnel, teaching materials, tools and implements for workshops and farms. Last year six experts were employed at the Afghan Institute of Technology and two at the School of Agriculture as teachers and advisers. They also assist in the task of training Afghan personnel.\n(b) The Columbia Team :\nExperts in this team help Afghan teachers at teachers' training schools; they also teach English in schools, but the greater part of their efforts is devoted to university education.\n3—Technical Assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany :\nAn agreement concerning technical\n\nA Chemistry Class at the Faculty of Medicine, Kabul University\n\n30","chars":1842,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00033.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/33","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/33","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}