Peter Mayo of the Department of Education Studies at the University of Malta is the guest editor of the special issue of Comparative Education Journal (Vol. 44, No.2), focusing on Education In Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives And Local Dilemmas.

Four Maltese scholars, namely Godfrey Baldacchino, currently holding the Canada Research Chair at the University of Prince Edward Island; Dr Mayo himself, Paul J. Pace and Edward Zammit, the last three from the University of Malta, wrote articles for this issue. Dr Baldacchino's article deals with Entrepreneurship In Small Jurisdictions: Appraising A Glocal Elite while the other three researchers co-authored a piece called Adult Education In Small States: The Case of Malta.

The journal pays tribute to the late Mohammed Kazim Bacchus of the University of Alberta, a significant scholar in the comparative and international education sphere and an expert on education in the Caribbean. He passed away when the material for this volume was about to go to press. His contribution deals with The Education Challenges Facing Small Nation States In The Increasingly Competitive Global Economy Of The Twenty-First Century. The volume also includes an obituary of the late scholar (1929-2007) penned by Daniel Schugurensky from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

The Comparative Education Journal is published by Routledge of the Taylor and Francis Group.