ABSTRACT
To satisfy basic educational needs and to provide ‘education for all’ by the year 2000, countries throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America are seeking cost-effective ways to expand access to primary education and, at the same time, to improve the quality of existing schools. However, in many nations the provision of even minimally effective primary schools continues to be an elusive goal, one handicapped by high population growth rates, insufficient physical resources and a lack of qualified teachers. To redress the chronic undersupply of trained teachers, ministries of education assisted by a variety of international aid agencies are relying increasingly on distance-training schemes of one kind or another.
