In advance of the Global Education Summit 2021, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and the United Kingdom, the Consortium joined a group of fellow Commonwealth Education Partners to host a virtual roundtable as an official summit side-event. Now available to watch online, the virtual roundtable was chaired by Hon. Mehnaz Akber Aziz, MNA, Pakistan with panellists including Rt Hon. Patricia Scotland, QC, Commonwealth Secretary-General; Dr Sara Ruto, Chief Administrative Secretary at the Ministry of Education in Kenya; Professor Keith Lewin, Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex; Pamella McLaren, Adviser and Head of Debt Management Unit at the Commonwealth Secretariat; and Dr Musarrat Maisha Reza, Chairperson of the Commonwealth Students Association. Discussion focused on the development of resilient education systems and the importance of increasing domestic finance budgets toward education. Read more about the event via our co-host the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s (CPA) website here.