- Part: I : College/Tertiary Education
- Higher education costs, finances, and budgetary issues
- Higher education: relevance in the context of present and future demands of society
- Shortcomings in the present higher educational system, suggestive models with regard to existing pattern
- Utility and relevance of current educational systems and their linkages with global networks
- Missing links in present educational systems and demands of the rural/agricultural sector
- Input-output analysis/forecasting/estimations with regard to demand, supply and investment aspects of higher education
- ICT education and development challenges
- Refugees in higher education and development
- Private higher education
- Any other relevant topic
- Part: II : Primary and Secondary Education
- Primary and secondary education costs and finances and budgetary issues in school education
- Features of enrolment and drop-out rates: responsible factors, success and ineffectiveness of concerned policies etc.
- Quality as well as physical infrastructure: gaps, role of voluntary organisations, private sector and society in educational development
- Curriculum, teaching and examination pattern: shortcomings, suggestive approaches, experiments – their successes and failures
- Future perspectives: demand and gaps in terms of availability of infrastructure, quality etc.
- Models for an advanced educational system, requirements of international collaboration and relationships with international agencies
- Role of private entrepreneurship in educational development
- Private school education - issues and options
- Educational management
- Nomadic education and development challenges
- Any other relevant topic