The Working Group whose report is now presented was constituted to consider a Commonwealth Industrial Training and Experience Programme, mainly on the initiative of the Seventh Commonwealth Education Conference held in Accra in March 1977. Recommendations made by other conferences and meetings of bodies whose concern was not primarily with education also contributed to decisions about its composition and terms of reference. The recommendation of the Accra Conference (as summarized on page 6 of its report) was that “proposals for a Commonwealth Exchange Scheme for Industrial Training and Experience be worked out in detail and commended to member governments”.