Feb. 4 These years would be equivalent to US 12th grade in high school and 1st year in college. The U.S. equivalent or the examination would be the college entrance exam. Formerly Malaya had a college entrance exam. but it is now arrived in place of "Form 6". The number of people leaving Form 6 are more than the 2 universities can handle, despite the fact that there are 2-3 thousand Malaysians studying abroad in U.K & elsewhere. There are staff shortages especially among the secondary school teachers. Some teachers have been brought in from [illegible] India (Colombo Plan). (Probably not the best science teachers considering what we have seen in India). Some have come in from Australia. The Peace Corps is also helping. Any person who can teach science can get a secondary school job right away. The secondary school science syllabus is based on the U.K. Cambridge examination and must be covered. Many of the textbooks are