Today, David Atchoarena, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), and Wen Yuan, President of Shanghai Open University (SOU, China), signed a three-year cooperation agreement to promote research, build and disseminate resources and strengthen institutional capacities in the...
The Tanzanian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s Institute of Adult Education (IAE) approved and implemented a set of national standards for the qualification of adult educators, following work undertaken by a former CONFINTEA Fellow at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (...
Two new UIL publications on prison education
Not only does prison education reduce recidivism and the financial and social costs of reoffending, it gives prisoners an opportunity to overcome disadvantage, to build new and different lives and to contribute fully to society.
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Community learning centres (CLCs) were first opened in Ethiopia as a result of the work initiated by Mr Yoseph Abera, a senior expert for adult and non-formal education in the Ethiopian Ministry of Education (MoE) and his department. Mr Abera participated in the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong...
New strategy and fund to support lifelong learning programmes in cities around the world
With the adoption today of the Medellín Manifesto during the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), members of...
Ten cities from around the world received the 2019 UNESCO Learning City Award on 30 September in Medellín, Colombia on the eve of the opening of the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities .
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The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the University of Hamburg hosted an international research seminar on literacy and lifelong learning on 12 September 2019. It provided a platform for discussing recent developments in literacy and lifelong learning from a research perspective...
President of Colombia to open the conference
More than half the world’s population lives in cities today. The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities has 170 active members from 53 countries in every region of the world. Each city in the network has implemented effective lifelong...
The Seychelles Institute of Distance and Open Learning (SIDOL), with the support of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), conducted a capacity-building workshop for adult educators focused on the reshaping of their literacy programme. UIL team leader Ms Rakhat Zholdoshalieva...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning calls on donors to close the funding gap
Paris, France : A new UNESCO cost analysis shows that US $14 billion (1) will be needed if the 20 countries with the lowest literacy rates (2) and the E-9 countries (3) are to achieve functional...
