Theme 1: Making Inclusive Access and Learning a Reality

Subthemes:

• The Bottom Billion: Education for Marginalised Communities – affected by Chronic Poverty, Environmental Disasters and Strategies for Risk Reduction
• Making Education for All a Reality: Training Teachers and Adapting the School Environment to the Special Needs and the Disabled
• Enabling Culture and Creativity – a Right or an Unachievable Goal?
• HIV/AIDS Prevention Education: Successes and Challenges in the Commonwealth
• Linking Literacy to Empowerment
• Gender Equality in Learning
• Promoting Dialogue and Citizenship

Theme 2: Achieving a Continuum in Education

Subthemes:

• Early Childhood Education: Strategies for Laying the Foundation
• Expanding Access: Universal Secondary Education
• Technical and Vocational Skills Acquisition
• Supporting Education and Learning in Conflict Affected States
• The Role of Informal and Continuous Education
• Lifelong Learning for Livelihoods

Theme 3: Redefining Quality in Education

Subthemes:

• Quality Education for Mathematics, Science and Technology
• Role of Leadership and Management in Delivering Quality Education
• The ICT Imperative: Innovating for Education
• Creating Environments for Quality Inclusive Education
• English, the Language of Instruction: Global Opportunities and Challenges

Theme 4: Realising the Potential of Non-State Actors

Subthemes:

• The Commonwealth in a Globalised and Electronic Age
• Public Private Partnerships and other Financing Models in the Current Economic Climate
• Faith, Culture and Social Cohesion
• Private Sector in Education
• Strengthening Education through International Linkages and Collaborations in Education
• Making Partnerships Work: Lessons from School Partnerships in Africa, Asia and the UK