1. Two complementary educational programs

The program encompasses two distinct and related educational programs:

The Graduate program

The primary function of the Education Foundation will be to establish a scholarship program available to Approved Individuals deriving from those segments of society within Approved Countries, which are lacking sufficient financial resources and educational oppoprtunities.

All Approved Individuals will be chosen exclusively on the basis of their abilities, not least their ability to complete the educational program they have chosen. These abilities would normally be understood to mean academic/intellectual abilities.

The financial position, family and other contacts available to individuals coming from the upper levels of society in the Approved Countries provides them with the bulk of the opportunities available, both academic and economic, in their own countries and beyond. These individuals would not be eligible for scholarships or other assistance from the Education Foundation.

Scholarships are to be used by the Approved Individuals to study at an Approved Education Institution at an undergraduate level, as a minimum, based in an Approved Democratic Country.

On completing their studies, Education Foundation Graduates will normally be expected to establish themselves, in due course, in positions of growing importance in business, politics, public administration, the press and the professions (lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc.) within their own countries. From these positions, these Graduates will be able to strongly influence the economic, political and social developments in their countries towards democratic political institutions, freedom from government interference and the extension of equality of opportunity for all. This influence would, in due course, be expected to be decisive in the development of a democratic, political and equitable society in their respective countries.

This will ensure that the existing concentration of wealth and power in their countries and the existing policies entrenching these will be replaced by a system based upon meritocratic, egalitarian principles.

In addition, the example that they bring will incentivize others to seek their opportunities where this hope was not previously present.

The only effective way to achieve the decisive influence sought in the various third world countries for an opening up from the currently entrenched systems, is to have an increasing number of well educated individuals coming from the non-traditional, non-upper class levels of society progressively moving into positions of influence.

Education Foundation Graduates will have lived and experienced values of democracy, freedom and education during a formative part of their lives, being their university/college days. This experience would be expected to prove of decisive influence.

Today, new members of the ruling classes are individuals who have been given an opportunity usually as a result of having some connection with existing members of the ruling classes. These various connections have a tendency to reinforce the perpetuation of the system with their entrenched opportunities.

The Education Foundation’s Graduates, returning to their home countries, will widen the pool of potential members of the ruling class. By the nature of the Education Foundation’s Graduate program, returning Graduates will be the result of a meritocratic system, based on their having established their quality, firstly, through having been chosen to receive an Education Foundation scholarship and, secondly, by having completed their studies in an Approved Democratic Country along with other highly educated students.

Because of the importance attributed to the influence which returning Graduates would be expected to have in their countries, the Graduate program is considered the primary function of the Education Foundation.

The local education program

The Education Foundation's second program, which will be on the agenda of the Education Foundation moving forward, is the establishment of schools in Approved Countries for the provision of primary and secondary education to Approved Students. These local programs can be developed independently or in conjunction with other, non-governmental organizations, or by the approval of non-governmental educational programs already existing in Approved Countries (the "Approved Affiliates").

This will be achieved through the establishment of a string of primary and secondary schools in Approved Countries, where these do not already exist or are limited in their availability. The Education Foundation's local education program is not aimed at replacing or preventing the establishment of a schools system by local governments.

The Education Foundation does not believe that the relatively small level of funding available to promote local schools through its local education program will be sufficient to change the way the recipient countries develop their political, social and educational systems. Nevertheless, the Education Foundation’s local education programs can serve as an example to the local authorities of an educational program that works, as well as widening the pool of potential candidates for the Education Foundation’s Graduate program.