It was with great sadness that UIL learned of the unexpected death, on 11 April, of Dr. Adoum N'Gaba Waye, a long-term friend of the Institute. Dr. Adoum N'Gaba Waye was a passionate advocate for adult education, and the founder and coordinator of the Centre Régional de recherche écologique et...
Entitled “ From Commitment to Action: Taking the CONFINTEA Agenda Forward” , the first regional CONFINTEA VI Follow-up Meeting will take place from 25 to 27 May 2011 in Mexico City, for the Latin America and Caribbean region. The CONFINTEA agenda is to develop adult literacy and adult...
On 19 May at 18.00 Professor Klaus Hüfner, Steering Committee member of the German Society for the United Nations and former Chairperson of the German Commission for UNESCO, will give a lecture at UIL on “UNESCO und Menschenrechte” (UNESCO and Human Rights), in German. Professor Hüfner was a...
To support the implementation of the commitments made at CONFINTEA VI, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is offering four fellowships for key personnel from Member States. Participants should be government officials and senior specialists in adult education. As part of their...
Published bilingually in English and French, it covers UIL’s activities in adult and non-formal education and literacy within an overall perspective of lifelong learning, as well as its organizational structure, publications and budget. The Annual Report can be downloaded on this page under “...
In her message on the occasion of International Mother Language Day , the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, emphasises the importance of mobilising for multilingualism and linguistic...
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In Africa, the evaluation of learning is a weak point in literacy policy. In most cases, assessment is narrowly related to curricula and/or carried out internally by the course provider. This practice reduces the scope of evaluation to merely that of justifying the resources used. It is rarely...
From 25 to 27 January 2011, an international expert meeting on monitoring the implementation of the Belém Framework for Action will be held at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, involving a small group of experts and researchers with technical knowledge and experience...
