We shall now try to give you the flavour of the discussions at the Regional Forums taking it in turns to describe each one. We held regional forums in Barbados for the Anglophone Caribbean, Pretoria for Africa, Rio de ...

In the next few minutes I shall share impressions of the conference. I have called this short intervention Access & Success in Learning: Your Conclusions. I say ‘your conclusions’ because although I have not spoken to all ...

I am very grateful to Sir John Daniel and the Commonwealth of Learning for inviting me to talk to you about ‘Revamping Teacher Education’, one of the themes that we are considering at this conference.

I am pleased to have been given the opportunity to talk to you about skills development. There is no doubt that governments and institutions around the world have reached a critical stage where we must increase our efforts ...

The transition to lower secondary education is now at the centre of the Education for All agenda in many countries. As more children are progressing through primary school the demand for secondary school places is growing. ...

Peace is fundamentally reliant on development and development is fundamentally reliant on education. If the world is to become a better and safer place, then education will be crucial in making it so.

This workshop is part of a joint project between UNESCO and COL whose aim is to spread awareness and understanding of Open Educational Resources, or OERs, beyond the community of practice that has already grown up around ...

Our theme is Access & Success in Learning. This reflects our conviction that it is no longer enough – and it never was enough – to pride ourselves on the role of open and distance methods in widening access to learning. ...

Building a well-developed community is a formidable but necessary challenge for many nations. An ideal community should fulfil all economic, social, material and spiritual needs of each and every one of its members; and ...

I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all participants to this Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning.