Commonwealth Secretariat
  1. Education Home
  2. What We Do
    1. Mitigating the Impact of HIV/AIDS
    2. Universal Primary Education
    3. Eliminating Gender Disparities
    4. Supporting Education in Difficult Circumstances
    5. Improving Quality in Education
    6. Overcoming Geographical Barriers
    7. Collaborative Partnerships
    8. Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol
    9. Statistics
  3. Background
  4. Ministerial Meetings
    1. 16CCEM - Cape Town Communiqué
    2. Good Practice Awards
  5. News Archive
  6. Documents
    1. Education Reports
    2. 16CCEM
    3. Speeches
    4. Communiqués
  7. Resources
  8. Publications

Education

Education

Our goal is to support Commonwealth governments in their efforts to attain universal, sustainable and high quality education for all citizens. We work towards a world in which every individual has access to high quality universal education regardless of their age, gender, socio-economic status or ethnicity.

We work closely with ministries of Education and various partners to address the six action areas in education across the Commonwealth. These include achieving Universal Primary Education; eliminating gender disparities in education; using open and distance learning to overcome barriers; improving quality in education; supporting education in difficult circumstance and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on education systems.

Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009

Young school boys in MozambiqueForty-nine submissions have been received for the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009. By the deadline for these awards, which was 31 October, submissions had been made from 14 Commonwealth countries, including 11 entries from six small states. More...

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Key Areas

Mitigating the Impact of HIV/AIDS

Education is one of the sectors worst affected by HIV/AIDS

Universal Primary Education

We help to achieve completion of universal primary education

Eliminating Gender Disparities

The 15CCEM Action Area on eliminating gender disparity in education is also a Millennium Development Goal.

Improving Quality in Education

Quality in education is an Action Area alongside efforts to achieve and sustain universal primary education and gender equality in education

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