Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, 2011 is a Special Edition, entitled CONFINTEA VI follow-up: The challenges of moving from rhetoric to action, and g uest-edited by Carolyn Medel-Añonuevo, Carlos Alberto Torres and Richard Desjardins.
The edition includes articles that survey the adult education...
At the time of reaching its 60 th anniversary, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) seems younger than ever! This summer UIL is a learning and working venue to as many as six young professionals, which is an unprecedented number of concurrent interns at the Institute. In order to...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (UNESCO/BREDA) are joining forces to give African countries a measurement system for the monitoring and evaluation of non-formal education. From 18–20 July 2011 they ran a second technical...
The second issue of the “CONFINTEA VI Follow-up News” reports on recent activities undertaken in pursuit of the Belém Framework for Action, both within and across countries. In addition to highlighting a series of events at country level, it includes information on the first Regional CONFINTEA...
During a regional consultation meeting in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates, 10–12 July 2011) organised by UNESCO Beirut, around 60 decision-makers and practitioners in basic education, literacy and adult education from 15 countries in the Arab region agreed to reinforce efforts in meeting the...
In the context of a larger consultation process to develop a new education strategy, the German Ministry for Cooperation and Development organised an expert meeting in Bonn on Thursday 7 July. The meeting was attended by specialists from governmental and non-governmental organisations and...
On June 27 the President of Namibia, Hifiken Pohamba, opened a five-day national conference on education with nearly 1,000 participants. Members of Parliament, Ministry of Education staff from 13 regions, officials of other Ministries (including the Ministries of Finance, Gender Equality and...
To assert the value of adult education and learning in enabling citizens to build a world worth living in, some 700 ICAE members and partners met at its Eighth World Assembly in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, from 14 to 17 June 2011.
A first day full of welcome activities and...
It was UNESCO’s commitment to post-war Germany, expressed during its 5 th General Conference held in Florence in June 1950, which led to the creation of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE), along with two other Institutes for Youth and Social Sciences, neither of which exist anymore. UIE...
June 2011 marks the 60th Anniversary of the First Governing Board meeting of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE), the forerunner of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. The meeting was held from 17 to 19 June 1951 in Wiesbaden, Germany, and was attended by Maria Montessori and Jean...
