189 Feb. 6 Today we visited a secondary school in Kuala Lumpur, the Victoria Institution. Mr. Allen Baker is the Headmaster. He is a large, husky fellow with black hair and pale skin and he from U.K. The school contains grades 7-12th (Forms 1-6). Girls occur in Form 6 but all other classes are attended by boys only. One of their young needs in Malaya, says Baker is graduate science teachers. He mentions that some 500 PhDs from U.K. have gone to America to stay. He evidently wishes they would stay in U.K. or he could get some in Malaya. We learned of a Mr. X.R. Allen, a New Zealander who has written a textbook in biology modelled after the BSCS materials. New Zealand authorities are evidently switching over to the American science teaching technique. The school is on the Cambridge syllabus system but we were told that the latter prescribe subject matter and alter treatment and that the development of the topic is up to the teacher. In the Form 6 "science stream" both botany and zoology must be studied. The Cambridge exam is given in Dec. for the students do not get results until Feb. a Mar. Headmasters in England are allowed to work out their own syllabus but even there they are bound by the exam. In Malaya there was no such latitude. Cambridge will consider modifications suggested by a region but there is no opportunity for a given region to experiment before requesting modifications.