Featuring a series of commissioned articles from leading education experts including Ministers of Education and high-level representatives within UN agencies, Commonwealth organisations, NGOs and the education sector, this publication discusses some of the Commonwealth’s most pressing education challenges, and looks at effective strategies to help Commonwealth member states achieve the ambitions of Sustainable Development Goal 4, to:
“Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
Featuring perspectives from:
- The Hon Rosy S. Akbar, Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts, Fiji
- Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO
- Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UNESCO
- Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment, Malta
- Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister
- Helen Clark, Advisory Board Chair, UNESCO, and former Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Prof. Etienne E. Ehile, Secretary General, Association of African Universities
- Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
- Julia Gillard, Global Partnership for Education and former Prime Minister of Australia
- Damian Hinds MP, Secretary of State for Education, UK
- Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Human Resource Development, India
- Asha Kanwar, President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning
- Jeffrey L. Lloyd, Minister of Education, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- Dr Shyamal Majumdar, Head of UNESCO-UNEVOC
- Dr Maszlee Malik, Minister of Education, Malaysia
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women
- Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
- Dr Greg Munro, Chief Executive, The Royal Commonwealth Society
- Dr Joanna Newman MBE FRSA, CEO & Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities
- Dr Beatrice Njenga, Head of the Education Division, African Union
- Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Board Chair, GAVI, and former Finance Minister of Nigeria
- Hon Thapelo Olopeng, Minister of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology, Botswana
- The Hon Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Education, Australia
- Ambassador Peter Thomson, former President of the UN General Assembly
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