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Commonwealth Day Since 1977, schools all over the Commonwealth have organised special activities on Commonwealth Day designed to enhance understanding of the Commonwealth and to provide shared enjoyment.

Planners and policy-makers often find it hard to decide whether to favour small schools or large ones. On the one hand, financial constraints require them to seek systems with the lowest unit costs. But on the other hand, administrators are keenly aware of the role of the school in social development, and thus that under ideal circumstances every community should have a school of its own. 

The dangers of an exclusively academic secondary school curriculum, and the benefits of a diversified one that includes practical and prevocational subjects, are acknowledged throughout the world.

The combination of economic depression and population growth has placed increasing strain on education systems in less developed countries.