The Commonwealth Asian Regional Seminar on Technical Education and Industry held in Hong Kong in October 1976 put forward a comprehensive range of recommendations relating to partnership between technical education and industry. In the short time that has elapsed since then the issues identified at that seminar have sharpened. In developing and developed countries alike, the need for changes in educational systems are even more clearly recognized than before, and it is accepted that systems and models that have been regarded traditionally as necessary no longer satisfy the changing needs of society.