Discusses organizing, equipping, and maintaining a shop in such a way as to enhance the teacher's ability to teach the skills included in the vocational agriculture curriculum. (Editor/TA)

Suggestions are offered to help prevent theft of school shop equipment, particularly machine and hand tools. (TA)

The curricula of industrial arts courses in the Asian Region are changing to a more general approach to arouse interest in, and simple understanding of, industry and industrial processes. Spaces for industrial arts should be less tightly tailored to the needs of specific subject fields than was the case in the past. In secondary general schools,…

The utilization of workshop accomodations in the countries of the Asian Region are examined and the study concludes that, in most schools, a single multipurpose workshop is more economical than the separate workshops for separate crafts that are in common use at present. Design criteria are developed for multipurpose "industrial arts"…