The development of robotic telescopes for education is reviewed. The problems associated with providing a service for students at different levels of education are discussed. Consideration is made of the hardware requirements in the students' institution and the compromises that are made to allow the maximum number of students to use facilities. The demands on teachers are considered along with the available methods of delivering educational projects related to curricular demands at the various stages. The likely developments in the technology are considered and estimates made of the probable timescales. Proposals are made to optimise student access to observing facilities that would involve the development of a linux-like collaboration around astronomy software and the development of low cost telescope systems. Proposals are made to realise such systems with the objective of providing universal access for students with Internet access.

Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Indonesia and Gunma Astronomical Observatory (GAO), Japan have been proceeding with several programmes of mutual collaboration in the fields of astronomical research and education since 2002. ITB with Bosscha observatory has a great interest in education of astronomy for public people as well as in the university education and research of their own, and GAO is a public observatory operated by Gunma prefecture local government equipped with a 150-cm reflector and some smaller telescopes, which are capable of scientific research of high grade. We will report some of our cooperative activities including the remote accessing of the telescopes of each observatory by each other, which can provide opportunities for astronomical experiences of the opposite hemisphere for various people of each country. Some scientific collaboration works such as common instruments and data analysis systems developed on both sites are also reported.