Field notes, v1753
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Jan. 15. At Calcutta, for example, this group sets the exam for it and 72 affiliated colleges. A similar pattern occurs elsewhere. Univ. Grants Commission has been working on the External Exam reform. Parvin feels that until this rigid pattern is broken there can be little change. He feels it will take an act from some high level office to bring it about. In the afternoon, visited the Film Festival which was held at the Central Institute of Education 33, Chhatra Marg, Delhi 6, at the University. This was one of the sessions in the series that is being conducted in India by the American Scientific Film Forum "New Approaches to Science Teaching". The Delhi sessions are on Jan. 14, 15, 16, and 17. at 3:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks were made by Prof. T.K.N. Menon, Principal, Central Institute of Education. An Inaugural address was made by Prof. T.R. Deshadri, Head of the Dept. of Chemistry at Univ. of Delhi, and Dr. Walter Auffenberg, Assist. Director, Bio Sci., Curriculum Studies, Univ. of Colo., commented on the films. Dr. Richard A. Boolootian was there. He is vice-president of the American Science Film Association.