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ACKERMANN: 
The general problem is that everything changes too fast, so 
that the context and the structure of education have to be changed 
continuously. Though in the past the engineering subjects or training m 
University education iasted one for almost a full professional life, it is 
now only good enough to start one with. We cannot expect whatever we 
learn in a University to last for a long time. 
The conclusion is that in the teaching we have to concentrate 
firstly on fundamentals, more so than before, but of course not only no 
those. The actual state of technology has to be taught more specifically 
3S well Secondly, we have to interface much stronger with such 
disciplines as computer sciences, electronics, and so on, than we used 
to in the past and thirdly, we have to look for post university courses 
and additional updating in education. That of course is above all a 
matter of financing. These thoughts are of course very general, and the 
conditions vary individually very much in each country and university. 
The question here is "what can Com VI do ? " 
My suggestion is that a review of new attempts, 
newsyllabuses on new courses should be collected and may be proved 
useful. For instance prof. Gruen's and ours in Stuttgart are good 
examples. The idea is to be aware of what other people try to do and 
how they change their educational systems. Also 1 would recommend 
contact with FIG, f.e. Harmala has done a greate deal of good work in 
the field. Anyway, at university level it is not a major problem. It is 
much more difficult at the technicians level My recommendation is 
exactly what we have heard here, computer packages to help training in 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems. 
We have heard of ITC training packages for instance and 1 really 
believe this is the only way to spread information more widely at the 
technician level. Problems in education in developing countries, are 
made very clear by Mrs. Mijakewits from Zambia. 1 think that the only 
suggestion one might make is again cheap computer training packages 
and technical aid from other countries. Another remark i could add 
concerning the Third World's problems is the lack of staff. As Dr. 
Blachut pointed out, in central Europe one person out of two thousand 
of the,population is working in the very global context of our field 
(Photogrammetry, Surveying, Cartography etc.) and specifically 60-70% 
of them in the cadastral field. Whether this percentage is enough or not 
for Europe it is not the question here. What I would like to show is that 
in developing countries the percentage drops dramatically, it is 10 to 
50 times less. The problem in these countries is not only a matter of 
training which could be done one way or another but with how many 
people could the necessary work in our field be done in these countries. 
Frankly l don't have any suggestion on this problem.