Countries which are underdeveloped, as measured by the size of the gross national product per person, need a high rate of increase of the gross national product if they are ever to have a standard of living anything like that of the wealthier countries. However, there are many obstacles to achieving such a high rate of development, amongst which is the inadequate provision, and standard, of technological and business education. That is to say, the education of people for the continuing development of industry is inadequate in some or even all respects. Some of these inadequacies can be removed or mitigated through co-operation with member institutions of SEFI and similar bodies. This co-operation has to be very carefully designed and implemented if it is to make any substantial impact on the rate of development. Engineering schools in underdeveloped countries have, or should have, different objectives from those in welldeveloped countries. These objectives will change as the development progresses but for a time they must be somewhat different if the schools are to have the most effect on industrial development.