Sixth Pan Commonwealth Forum in Kerala

Updated on: Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF6) on Open Learning will be jointly organised by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver-Canada and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) from November 24-28, 2010 at Kochi, Kerala.

The event is being held for the first time in India. PCF is a biennial event of COL. The first 5 PCFs were held in Darussalam, Brunei (1999), Durban, South Africa (2002), Dunedin, New Zealand (2004), Ocho Rios, Jamaica (2006) and London, United Kingdom (2008).

The main theme of the PCF6 is "Access and Success: Global Development Perspectives to Learning for Development" covering four areas-social justice, community development, skills development and formal education.

Approximately 700 delegates from 70 countries are expected to participate in the PCF6. The invited speakers are reputed academics which include Nobel laureates and other celebrities.

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