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SCIENCE EDUCATION
Ensuring quality education and access for all
The goal is a world in which every individual has access to high quality universal education regardless of their gender, age, socio-economic status, or ethnicity.
The work of the Commonwealth focuses on disadvantaged groups, such as girls, children in rural and urban poor areas, the disabled, those that are nomadic and those who may be learning in environments suffering conflicts, natural disasters and other emergencies.
In order to address the need for expansion of access to education for all, we are utilising the technology, facilities and efficiencies afforded by open and distance learning to overcome barriers and combating the digital divide in education.
“I cannot help but see how marginalised my part of the world has been and continues to be”
"As a young person from one of the majority world countries (developing world), I'm acutely aware of the price that my country is paying due to technological advancement. Indiscriminate use of natural resources has led to climate change, and no where are the effects of this being felt like in African countries. Technology has made me aware of the gap that exists between the minority world and the majority world. Through international news networks as well as the internet, I cannot help but see how marginalised my part of the world has been and continues to be. The result? Resentment and anger! This places a huge task on my shoulders as a young person. A task to mobilise fellow young people to address or at least voice our concerns on this. A task to bridge this technological gap! Being technologically savvy comes with a responsibility, and it is this responsibility that has made me and other young people in the Commonwealth and around the world aware of how the world is being run and made us into thinking about, "what if young people were brought on board to be part of the decision making processes?" "
Isaac Musyoka, age 24, Commonwealth Citizen
Further articles of interest
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Education for a Digital World
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
Advice, Guidelines, and effective practice from around the Globe, providing keys to enriching experiences using learning technologies.
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Learning to Live Together
Commonwealth of Learning - Editors: Rawwida Baksh and Tanyss Munro
Using distance education for community peacebuilding
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Perspectives on Distance Education: Open Schooling in the 21st Century
Commonwealth of Learning - Editors: Dominique A.M.X. Abrioux and Frances Ferreira
Few forces are as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Open schooling is an idea
whose time has come.
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Richie Enrichment: an expert on all things to do with nuclear energy and science
Learn all about what URENCO do in the field of science and the nuclear industry with Richie Enrichment.
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URENCO - School Science Workshops
URENCO has enlisted the help of ‘Richie Enrichment’ to act as its ambassador for Science and to improve communications between URENCO and its younger stakeholders.
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Guernsey's youth debate world issues
The Commonwealth Youth Summit brought more than 70 Guernsey students together to debate local, national and global issues in the Royal Court on Friday.
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ACU Bulletin - Strategies for Success: Introduction
Professor John Tarrant - Secretary General of the ACU
Our survey of the big issues facing universities in the Commonwealth has now been published.
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What on Earth is in your garden?
If you’ve ever found something unusual crawling around in your garden or discovered a strange looking plant in the hedgerow whilst walking the dog, then What on Earth is a great place to log your find - and an easy way to join in the nation’s largest celebration of science.
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2010 Celebration of Science, Technology and Society Across the Commonwealth
Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) is an Autonomous Body under the umbrella of Ministry of Science and Technology.
