SPECIALISTS in education will be here for a series of meetings and conferences next month.

The International Education Roundtable, to be held from July 6 to 8, will bring together education ministers and senior government officials from Victoria in Australia, Alberta in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Sweden and the United States.

Education Minister Ng Eng Hen and Sir Michael Barber, a partner at McKinsey & Company, will co-chair the session on issues such as how to attract and recruit good teachers and groom school leaders.

More than 1,200 school principals from 35 countries will also attend a separate meeting - the 9th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals - from July6 to 10. The theme this year is 'Charting the New Education Landscape'.

The principals will visit some schools here to see the creative approaches the schools have taken in teaching and learning.

This article was first published in The Straits Times.