Common Interests, Uncommon Goals

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The significant impulse for the establishment of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) originated from a Canadian, Joseph Katz of the University of British Columbia. The main World Congress was held in Ottawa, Canada, in August 1970 during the UNESCO-assigned International Education Year (IEY). Edmund King later portrayed the manner by which the thought took structure (Letter to Raymond Ryba, 12 March 1998): I was there at that point, when [Joseph] Lauwerys and Leo Fernig (regularly in London) and Joe Katz were laying the foundation for the WCCES. Katz went through a year in London on vacation, and during that time he and Lauwerys were frequently together.