Policies to guide development and implementation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) are critical if maximum benefits are to be derived from this type of education. According to Morris (1998), Jamaica has viewed TVET as an important aspect of education and suggested that no nation can succeed in its national development without a well established TVET system. TVET encourages individuals, businesses, especially small, medium and macro enterprises (SMMEs), local community groups, women and marginalized or disenfranchised people or groups to perform better.

“Internationalization of Tertiary Education in the Caribbean'' refers, at least in part, to the extent to which the Anglophone Caribbean provides access to higher education at international standards of quality, scope, cost, and relevance. Anglophone Caribbean nations have responded to this internationalization challenge and significantly increased enrolment ratios, often driven by public investment, in an effort to align more closely their ratios with international rates of tertiary education coverage.

This paper deals with women, education and development in India. It sketches the development in women's education in the current context in India and shows that higher school enrolment has led to better jobs for women, a lower fertility rate and overall benefits in nutrition and health for the family. However, higher education levels have not necessarily translated into higher status for women because societal attitudes are hard to change.The overall question this paper aims to address is: What really matters when evaluating human well-being?

This book is a welcome addition to the too slowly increasing literature on the history and sociology of education in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Students and administrators will find the book invaluable for an understanding of the problems of planning education in a Caribbean territory. Professor Bacchus' main theme is the massive expansion of education facilities in Guyana, especially at the secondary level, from the mid 1940s to 1974.

The words of the Guyanese poet Martin Carter in “Death of a Comrade” seemed quite apt for the time of grief, bereavement, and remembrance of the woman to whom the paper is dedicated. This paper is writen in memory of a woman who became a lawyer and patriot, and who pursued justice to the end of her days. She was one of those Jamaicans who went to England as a child and returned as a professional to build her homeland. She returned and contributed in many ways at the University of Technology as a lecturer, as a human rights campaigner with the United Nations and in the field of legal aid.

In a journal such as this that includes ‘development’ in its title, it is important that from time to time a6ention is paid to what that word ‘development’ actually means outside of common educational practices. It is a concept that does need some focus as the Caribbean moves forward to introduce a more complex approach to our national and regional preoccupations. One relevant theme which we have not addressed before in approaching the development stance of this journal is that of the Caribbean diaspora.

In discussing the type of research which is needed in the area of education and development in the "new nations" it should be noted that the concept "development" is an amorphous one and usually implies changes in many institutions of a society including the economic.

Essentially, it is education that has been, is and will continue to be the single most significant agent of change and development. Our times and lives, however, find it deficient as we look for more from it, faster and for all. For this we turn to distance education, which lends flexibility, variety, speed and enhanced reach. In the ultimate analysis though, it is the people behind it and those in front of it who are the real change-agents.

This paper attempts to trace the major developments in teacher-education which have taken place in many Third World countries, especially in ex-British colonial territories, but focuses more on some current dilemmas in education and teacher-education which these countries face.

The inclusion of papers from the Third International Conference on TVET in the Caribbean which was held during May 10-12, 2017 and embraced the theme “TVET for Sustainable Regional Development” is a testimony to the commitment of the University of the West Indies to the development of TVET at the tertiary level. In this issue of the Caribbean Journal of Education, four papers successfully met the targets established by the Journal for publication.