Commonwealth Education

Written to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first Commonwealth Education Conference in 1959, the chapters in this volume reflect on the past, present, and future of Commonwealth educational cooperation.
This book originally appeared as a special issue of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

Beth Kreling is Senior Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Secretary of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, London, UK. Peter Williams is Honorary President of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, former Professor of Education in Developing Countries at the University of London's Institute of Education, and from 1984 to 1994 Director of Education at the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Introduction Staying Relevant: Commonwealth Education at 60 1. The Sustainable Development Goals for Education: Commonwealth Perspectives and Opportunities 2. Achieving the Promise to Leave No Girl behind in Commonwealth Countries 3. India's South-South Cooperation in Human Resource Development 4. Commonwealth Student Exchange 1959-2019 - Planned and Unplanned 5. Commonwealth Engagement in Education: Prospects in the Era of SDGs 6. 'Regimes Theory' as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in CARICOM and Commonwealth Countries 7. The Future Use of Technology in Education and Learning in the Commonwealth 8. Commonwealth Small States, Education and Environmental Uncertainty: Learning from the Sharp End