This report summarises the results of a symposium convened by The Commonwealth of Learning in Delhi between June 21 and 27, 1992. The symposium was entitled "Models of Student Support Systems in Distance Education" and consequently was oriented more towards policy than practice. Nevertheless, the deliberations were anchored in the personal experiences of participants and their institutions, which lent an especially lively tone to the discussions, These centred on the institutional case studies presented by representatives from the four open universities in India, the new distance education programmed at Bangladesh's national university, and the institutions in two non-Commonwealth countries, Thailand and Indonesia,