Portugal has developed one of the most advanced systems for Recognition, Validation and Accreditation (RVA) in the world, with support from the European Social Fund. The New Opportunities Initiative (NOI) is a national strategic plan to speed up the pace of secondary level achievement in the...
The Committee on Conventions and Recommendations of the Executive Board of UNESCO monitors three Conventions and eleven Recommendations. One of latter is the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education. The UNESCO General Conference 36C/Resolution 13 (2011) acknowledges the...
Deeming that there should be commonly-recognised and agreed understandings and operative definitions, without which confusion and lack of precision will continue to hamper policy and practice in the region of Latin America, UIL agreed to develop a glossary together with the Organisation of Ibero...
The multi-country research project on measuring literacy programme participants’ learning outcomes (RAMAA) will assess the competences of beneficiaries of adult literacy programmes in Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, Niger and Senegal. The learners’ competences will be assessed against a set of...
2 April 2012 marks the anniversary of UIL’s Effective Literacy Practices Database (LitBase) , which was launched by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning as a comprehensive database on innovative and effective...
More than 1,000 participants gathered from 12 to 17 February in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for the 2012 ADEA Triennale – the most important educational event in the region organised by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa. This year’s theme was “Promoting critical knowledge...
How can validation processes for non-formal and informal learning be better and more systematically integrated into education and training systems? What do we know about the results and effects of validation? These and other questions were explored by an International Conference held in Oslo, 5-...
Analysis of article downloads for Springer’s stable of 64 education and language journals over a 90-day period (18 November 2011 – 15 February 2012) gives pleasing news for UIL’s journal, International Review of Education .
On one day, 22 November, IRE recorded 4,033 downloads, the...
Research findings and trends in language-in-education policy-making and educational practice were discussed at a meeting of South Sudanese and international specialists and government representatives.
The conference, held in Juba from 4 to 7 March, was co-organised by the British Council...
With specialists from UNESCO Maputo and the UNESCO Capacity Development for EFA (CapEFA) Programme Team, UIL gave technical assistance at a national seminar in Mozambique to measure the existing capacity of the adult education sub-sector against desired capacity levels. The seminar, which took...
