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Commonwealth Ministers of Education meeting in Accra for the Seventh Commonwealth Education Conference recommended that 'the Commonwealth Secretariat, in consultation with governments concerned, should assemble information on the steps being taken to implement programmes of universal primary education (UPE) in member countries and make this information available to other countries'.

This book, by a recognised authority on the subject, will be of value to all who are concerned with the education and training of all technicians.

In 1981 the Commonwealth Secretariat published explanatory documentation on The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, prepared by Mr.

This publication is a report of a Caribbean symposium on employment strategies and programmes, held in Barbados from 29 September to 10 October 1975.

This report covers the operation in all participating countries of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan during the period 1 April 1974 to 31 March 1975.

This is the report of a Commonwealth seminar held in Mauritius in January 1975.

This publication is a report of a workshop on National Youth Programmes and National Youth Services held in Accra, Ghana in March 1975.

The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan was drawn up at the First Commonwealth Education Conference held at Oxford in 1959. The general basis of the Plan is that those Commonwealth governments which are able to do so should institute Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships to be held by men and women from other Commonwealth countries at universities and other institu­tions of higher learning in the awarding country. The progress and develop­ment of the scheme have been reviewed at successive Commonwealth Education Conferences at New Delhi in 1962, Ottawa in 1964, Lagos in 1968, Canberra in 1971, Kingston in 1974 and Accra in 1977. For this purpose reports on the CSFP are presented to each Conference.