Acting Commonwealth secretary-general Steadman Noble in the Royal Court yesterday with 80 students intent on setting the world straight. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0916344)

MONEY is not the only thing needed to improve education globally, according to students at yesterday’s Commonwealth Youth Summit.

They demonstrated that the world according to them could be a more unified place.

At the end of the Royal Commonwealth Society debate, acting secretary-general Steadman Noble told the students he wished it could be like yesterday had been at real summits.

‘It is not very often all representatives are satisfied with the overall communique of a debate,’ he said. ‘If it could be like this all the time in the Commonwealth, the world would be a better place.’

Debates saw 80 people aged between 14 and 19 in the Royal Court take on the roles of Commonwealth leaders. The first part of the education debate saw representatives put forward their cases and the second part resolving them.

Each had to inform the secretary-general and his deputies of how their country’s education was suffering and how it could be improved.

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