The questionnaire issued by the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1980 (Appendix A) included a section on institutions in which information was sought on current national educational provision and the prospects for institutional expansion in the 1980s. The responses to this section from the sample countries form the basis for an examination of the first of six major questions highlighted in the 8CEC paper relating to education and national scale. Although the term range has clear curricula implications these will be reserved for the third of the six questions discussed under section 3 of this chapter.