  Since 1988, the United Nations, through the Programme on Space Applications,
is supporting the establishment and operation of regional Centres for Space
Science and Technology Education in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America
and the Caribbean, and Western Asia. Simultaneously, education curricula have
been developed for remote sensing and geographic information system, satellite
communications, satellite meteorology and global climate, and space and
atmospheric science. The paper reviews briefly these developments and
highlights the most recent updated education curricula in the four disciplines
that are made available in 2002, in the six official languages of the United
Nations, for implementation at the regional Centres and beyond.
