Press

With the desire of ail participants to be fully informed of the activities of students in the region the seminar is recommending that a news distribution scheme be established. All participating national unions find national student press organisations within the area will forward at regular intervals summaries of the activities of students in their respective countries to one central country. There this material would be compiled into one bulletin and sent to all student organisations and newspapers in the region. This will mean, as far as New Zealand is concerned, that we will have access to a valuable documentation of the life of students in an area where previously insufficient information was available. However it is realised that the press organisations in some of the participating countries are at the moment barely sufficiently well experienced to cope with such a project. The period between the conclusion of the seminar and the Ninth I.S.C. is to be used to experiment with the distribution of news from one country to all the others.

Should this news distribution scheme be successful, and if approved by the Ninth I.S.C., it will be used as the basis for the establishment of an Asian Student Press Bureau which will have as its objectives not only the distribution of news but also the raising of the standards of the student press in the Asian region.