Publisher's Synopsis
Within the universities of the Commonwealth there has always been a sense of a common educational and research tradition. A workshop was held in Singapore in April 1992 to outline the strategies and mechanisms for developing, maintaining and expanding student flows into the universities and polytechnics of the Commonwealth South and for the extension of South-South exchange. Material from the Singapore papers is here brought together in a readable form, providing: • an historical background to the new initiatives • a thorough analysis of the major policy issues • a set of case studies Professor Lalage Bown worked for over 30 years in African universities and written extensively on adult education, higher education and development issues. From 1981 to 1992 she was Professor and Director of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow and she currently holds an honorary position at the International Centre for Education in Development at the University of Warwick. Professor Bown is a member of the Commonwealth Standing Committee on Student Mobility and Higher Education Co-operation, and was for a number of years a Board member of the British Council. She has also been President both of the British Comparative and International Education Society and of the UK Development Studies Association.
