Members of the Commonwealth of Learning (C.O.L) Focal Points have been urged to use the S.A.M.O.A. Pathway to address challenges on sustainable development in education.
The call was made by the Minister of Education, Magele Mauiliu Magele, yesterday during his Keynote Address at the opening of a three-day meeting of members of the C.O.L Focal Points held at the Visions Restaurant, National University of Samoa.
Magele reiterated the government's support in improving education, taking into account the fast changing world of technology as a challenge.
"I congratulate you Madam President for your leadership and the work you have done, and we are also thankful for expanding education and training opportunity. Our education institutions are appreciating the benefits of your work," he said.
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The President and C.E.O Commonwealth of Learning Professor, Asha Kanwar, is optimistic that the meeting would push for more issues from Samoa and the Pacific to be addressed.
"We need to hear from you what your priorities are as its a part of the strategic plan beyond 2012- 2016."
"It is also an opportunity for us to present a summary of what we have done so far for each Pacific country," said Prof. Kanwar.
"It is also to promote Commonwealth rights and to remind us of our shared values.”
The three-day meeting will also focus on devising new opportunities to encourage innovative approaches in teaching and delivering quality education in various issues affecting small developing countries.
The Commonwealth of Learning Focal Points' role is to help countries use a range of appropriate and available approaches and technologies to foster learning at scale.
The discussions will also ensure that COL initiatives match national priorities for each country over the next three years.
ABOUT Commonwealth of Learning
The Commonwealth of Learning (C.O.L) is an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education, knowledge, resources and technologies.
C.O.L is helping nations improve access to quality in education and training.
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of more than 50 independent sovereign states, which provide support to each other, and work together toward international goals.
The Commonwealth is described as a "family" of nations, originally linked together in the British Empire and now building on their common heritage in language, culture and education, which enables them to work together in an atmosphere of greater trust and understanding than generally prevails among nations.
Bringing together some 1.7 billion people of many faiths, races, languages, traditions and levels of economic development, the Commonwealth represents almost one-third of the world's population.
* Iutita Meauli is a student at the N.U.S Media and Journalism School
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