Stebbins, R. 1963 Malaysia Trip Kuala Lumpur 172 Feb. 4 old British texts and are too theoretical and inadequately illustrated. Foreign texts are picked up by libraries but are not allowed as texts in the classroom because they do not follow the syllabus. There are many government schools and the Ministry controls the syllabus, hence the program is rather rigid. Even the private schools must follow the syllabus. The present syllabus was adopted about 5 yrs. ago and is now considered behind times by teachers. This led to the setting up of the General Syllabus Review Committee of which there are two subcommittees - the math committee and the Science and Rural Science Committee. The chairman of the latter is a former grantee of the AF who was sent to the U.S. to participate in a summer service institute dealing with PSSC materials. AF has supplied him with the new curriculum materials - PSSC, CHEM, CBA, BSCS (all versions), SMSC. He is Mr. Tan Chui Juan. He has made his recommendations and hopes to have experimental classes trying the materials but he has encountered a lot of red tape. In order for a school teacher