Since the mid 1960s, the Philippine government has developed non-profit self-help schools including barrio high schools and community colleges in poor rural areas. The innovations have helped to equalize educational opportunity and to provide education relevant to individual economic and social needs. (Author/AV)

The twenty case studies presented in these reports are examples of experiments in Asian nations which have been conducted as specific responses to local problems in teacher education. The materials, originally presented in a 1975 conference of the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development, are organized into three basic subject areas:…