Commonwealth Education Partnerships is the essential overview of education in the Commonwealth. This year’s edition draws on our 2014 theme ‘Team Commonwealth’ reminding us that academic co-operation and interaction are intrinsic to building bridges between the people and communities of the Commonwealth.
Contents
Foreword Commonwealth Secretary-General – Kamalesh Sharma
Overview
Higher education and sustainable development
- At the sharp end: Education for sustainable development in small states – Terra Sprague, Michael Crossley and Keith Holmes
- Environmental uncertainty in the Caribbean – Dame Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General, Saint Lucia
- Community learning for sustainability: Examples from different regions – Ian Douglas
- Education for sustainable development: Re-imagining scholarships and research – Su-ming Khoo
- The Ford Foundation’s International Fellowships Program – Joan Dassin
- DFID: Supporting education in the Commonwealth – Nicola Watt, Chris Berry and Evelyn Ashton-Griffiths
- The impact of tertiary education on growth and development – Moses Oketch, Tristan McCowan and Rebecca Schendel
- The effect of tuition fees on higher education in England and Wales – Katie Silvester
Accessing high-quality education
- Education in Ghana 2006-13: A view from the UK – Roger Cunningham and Kingsley Arkorful
- Free education policy and its challenges: Sri Lanka – Madura M. Wehella and B. M. Jayantha Balasooriya
- How Bangladesh sought to improve its primary-school textbooks – Andy Smart
- Gender, development and education in Caribbean SIDS – Leith Dunn
- Perceptions of the primary curriculum in Jamaica: One size fits all? – Carmel Roofe
- Early literature in South Africa: The promise of book sharing – Peter J. Cooper, Lynne Murray, Mark Tomlinson and Zahir Vally
- Book Aid International: Vibrant libraries and empowered communities – Alison Hubert, Book Aid International
- The evolution of Brunei’s approach to bilingual education – Anna Riggall
- Exploring the role of private schools in developing countries – Laura Day Ashley, Claire Mcloughlin and Richard Batley
Technology in education
- Open educational resources: Barriers and potential in Tanzania – Joel Mtebe and Roope Raisamo
- ICTs and transformation in Africa: Three perspectives – From the eLearning Africa Report 2014
- Technology: The great divider? – Tim Unwin
- TVET and mobility: Experiences from the Australia-Pacific Technical College – Michael A. Clemens and Stephen Howes
- M-learning: Interactivity and the humanitarian context – Anthony Ralston