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Technical Assistance for Technical Schools : Foreign 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 :— 1—U.N.E.S.C.O. : This 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. 2—The United States International Co-operation Administration : Assistance given by this organisation is received through two teams sent by American universities :— (a) The Wyoming Team : This 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. (b) The Columbia Team : Experts 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. 3—Technical Assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany : An agreement concerning technical A Chemistry Class at the Faculty of Medicine, Kabul University 30