ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the scale of overseas training of students from developing countries, and the problems of evaluating that training. It considers a social-technical model of training which can be adapted for the case of overseas training. Various case studies from Development and Project Planning Centre (DPPC) experience are considered and broad conclusions are reached. The twelve month programmes started with workshops in India, with the DPPC trainers visiting in order to identify training needs with students and their managers, and to agree on the research projects which were a key feature of the programmes. Agricultural project planning (APP) was a pilot project, and in the event DPPC lost financially. the key feature of the APP type of internationally open industrialised countries plus Third Country Training model is that individual students from many countries can have the opportunity to enhance their transfer of learning by the combination of an overseas course with a third country training event.
