ABSTRACT
In presenting 1977's new educational reforms, which provide for compulsory schooling up to the ninth grade, the Minister of Public Education emphasised the urgent need for the broadcasting industry and the state to work together to meet the educational goals of the nation. There is a marked increase in cooperation between private enterprise and institutions of higher learning in the preparation and broadcast of informal educational material with the ultimate goal of transforming this type of semi-popular teaching into more formal direct education. However, a strong influence on programme content in this area is the desire of the federal government to overcome localist tendencies towards decentralisation, and to forge what it considers a true Mexican nationality. It is a stated policy of the present government that it will make full use of its 12.5 per cent 'fiscal time' rather than expand government transmission facilities.
