1. Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning Commonwealth of Learning: Governance & Accreditation

2. Why COL? Why in Vancouver? Why in Vancouver?

3. Canada hosted two summits in 1987

4. Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Vancouver 1987

5. Signed 1 September 1988 Memorandum of Understanding

6. “…to create and widen access to opportunities for learning, making use of the potential offered by distance education and by the application of communication technologies to education. COL’s activities will…strengthen member countries’ capacities to develop the human resources…” MOU, CHOGM 1988, amended 1995 The purpose of COL is

7. Headquarters’ Agreement Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act of Canada Income Tax of Canada Regulatory Framework in Canada

8. Who are we? COL’s Vancouver Staff Dr. Linda Sissons, Board Chair Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO

9. Commonwealth governments make voluntary contributions to COL’s budget Who supports COL? The number of countries contributing rose from 23 in 2003-06 to 46 in 2013-14 Canada UK India Nigeria New Zealand Australia South Africa

10. COL Board of Governors, 2015

11. Metro Vancouver (Headquarters) New Delhi (CEMCA) Where is it?

12. Regional Office CEMCA Countries: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore and Sri Lanka

13. RETRIDOL Regional Centres

14. SADC-CDE Regional Centres COL in collaboration with the SADC CDE and the COMOSA Africa Chapter, held a workshop in Maseru, Lesotho to develop Quality Criteria for peer auditing of Open Schools in Mozambique and Lesotho.

15. PACFOLD Regional Centres

16. Country Reports 2012-2015

17. Education Ministers: CCEM Foreign Ministers: CHOGM Report to

18. Report to COMSEC Board: annual written and oral report Report to own Board and its sub-committees: Audit; Executive Accountability