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cannot and ought not to try to run large, expensive and complicated schemes of fundameucation "on the ground." These projects remain for what they are, pilot projects, and should any of them prove to be impossible to run as such, the Director-General is authorised to discontinue them.

24. Education for International Understanding.-Special attention is paid to education for international understanding. The two competitions for children will be completed this year. Studies and the distribution of material will continue on teaching about the United Nations and preparations are authorised for the drafting of a convention under which Member States must ensure that their educational programmes are directed at all levels towards international peace and security.

25. Teachers' Charter and Youth Charter.--These resolutions, which have been in the programme of UNESCO for two years, did not seem to the United Kingdom Delegation to be of outstanding urgency. Nevertheless, they were accepted by the majority of the delegations. One calls upon the International Bureau of Education to collect basic material on the status of the teacher with a view to the drafting of a Teachers' Charter. The other instructs the Director-General to promote an international study of the barriers to education for all looking towards an educational charter for youth.

26. Work with Universities and Adult Education.—An important resolu- tion was passed charging UNESCO with assisting the development of an international organisation of representatives of Universities. Such an organi- sation was foreseen at the Utrecht Conference and steps have already been taken towards its establishment.

27. The main decision in the field of adult education was to authorise the calling of a world conference for workers and leaders in adult education, including workers in industry and agriculture. The United Kingdom Delega- tion would have preferred to have restricted attendance at this Conference, which is likely to be held in Denmark in June of this year, to those directly concerned with the provision of adult education and to have left to a later conference the question of the representation of the "consumers" of adult education, such as industrial and agricultural workers. Throughout the debates there was also voiced what we considered to be a too hasty desire for a new comprehensive international organisation in the field of adult education, and we succeeded in urging Member States, as an indispensable foundation for international collaboration, to foster and develop national associations of workers in adult education.

28. Other Resolutions. Various measures were passed under this chapter which are important but which need no further explanation. The Arts and Science in General Education are covered in special resolutions. Attention was also paid to language teaching, vocational guidance and technical education and educational opportunities for women.

CHAPTER III.—NATURAL SCIENCES

29. Field Science Co-operation Offices and International Non-Govern- mental Organisations.-The United Kingdom Delegation recognised in the natural sciences programme one of the most successful and effective sections of the organisation's work. This programme continues to be based upon two fundamental activities, support for the well established international non-governmental scientific organisations, such as those federated in the Inter- national Council of Scientific Unions, by a judicious policy of grants-in-aid