Several countries in Asia and the Pacific are developing national strategies for lifelong learning in order to become learning societies. In a well-attended International Lifelong Learning Conference in Kuala Lumpur 14-15 November, “Transforming Nations through Enculturation of Lifelong Learning...
About 50 students from Hamburg University’s adult education department visited UIL on 17 and 18 November to learn more about the Institute’s work, the role of adult education in the UNESCO context and the possibilities of drawing on the Institute’s extensive bibliographic resources for their...
Every year the Slovenian Ministry of Education and Sports and the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education organise a national conference which brings together all stakeholders in adult education. The forum discusses the achievements of the sector for the year and the future challenges it faces....
Over 1 million people have enrolled on one of the largest Portuguese governmental programmes in recent decades to recognise and accredit prior learning and to upgrade adults’ low skill levels to secondary-level qualifications. Why have so many participated? It is mainly because NOI was designed...
In the course of providing technical assistance to the programme “Accelerating National Efforts in Papua New Guinea to Achieve EFA through LIFE”, UIL was able to brief the Minister of Education and the First Secretary on the need for increased literacy efforts. Reporting to them on the outcomes...
The first CONFINTEA VI Fellowships programme commenced today, Monday 28 November, at UIL. Between now and the end of the programme, on 9 December, six fellows from Africa and Asia will use UIL’s resources to reflect on and devise strategies for the implementation of the Belém Framework for...
On 4 November 2011, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA) signed a memorandum of understanding on the co-piloting of action research to measure the learning outcomes of literacy programme participants (RAMAA). The aim of...
Following the recommendations made by 144 governments at the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) in 2009 ,...
There is a growing consensus in Bosnia and Herzegovina that adult learning – used as a blanket term for adult education and continuing vocational training – is of great importance for the country’s socio-economic development. Several strategic frameworks guide the development of adult learning...
Many cities and regions in Europe have developed strategies to foster a learning culture vis à vis economic, social and environmental change. The goal is the development of “learning cities” and “learning regions”, concepts that cities and regions can adapt to new knowledge and to new...
