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Students of the Faculty of Engineering during practical field surveying. atomic energy and its development. According to the request of the Commission the International Atomic Energy Agency has agreed to grant a number of scholarships to Afghan scholars to study new techniques in the field of atomic energy. The Agency also sent a commission to Afghanistan to survey the possibility of utilising atomic energy in the country. Consequently the Agency agreed to send an atomic energy expert with the necessary equipment to Kabul to establish an atomic energy laboratory in the Faculty of Science. The Chairman of the Afghan Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Kakar, who is also the Dean of the Faculty of Science took part in the third general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency which was convened in Vienna in 1959. Institute of Education The Institute of Education has been very active during the fourth year of the Plan and has revised a great number of text books for the seventh, eighth and ninth grades of Ibnisina school, guiding the teachers of social subjects in ways of using local material, arranging a social science laboratory and inviting a number of important people to give lectures in their own fields. The Institute has compiled history and geography text books and arranged a social science laboratory for the Teachers' Training College. It has also supplied the text for social studies in the Faculty of Literature. The Institute has arranged winter courses for men and women teachers and helped all teachers in Kabul schools by way of personal contacts and provision of new teaching material. Winter courses are attended annually by men and women teachers from all over the country and local educational meetings are arranged in provincial centres with representatives of the Ministry of Education taking part. The English Department of the Institute of Education has sent out its The Institute of Education has a well stocked library. first batch of graduates and co-operated with English teachers—in Ibnisina School, Teachers Training College, Habibia College and Rabia Balkhi School. The Department has also provided instructors for the Post Graduate Course, and 17 courses were arranged for men and women teachers. The Department has compiled the second and third volumes of "English for the Afghans." The Institute of Education in co-operation with the Boy Scout Association arranged courses on Scouting. The Department of Publications has published 24