A UNESCO-aided up-grading programme for over 500 untrained teachers in Botswana was conducted in the period 1968-1972. This project, consisting of a series of residential courses together with correspondence study and the use of radio (on similar lines to the Uganda programme) attracted a good deal of attention in neighbouring countries. In 1971 a group of senior education officials from Swaziland visited the Botswana project, located at the Francistown College, made a study of the work being done, and, as a result, a similar project came into existence in Swaziland in 1972, on the campus of a teachers' college.