The Commonwealth Secretariat published its first Guide to Education & Training Resources in the Developing Countries of the Commonwealth in 1974. Its main purpose was to help promote collaboration between Commonwealth countries through the use of each other's facilities to train the specialist manpower required for their economic and social development. The Guide was intended to be specifically useful to officials responsible for administering the Education & Training Programme of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC) and useful also to others who, for official, professional or personal reasons, require reliable information on the rapidly expanding education and training resources of the developing Commonwealth.