31 August 2020
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has published a new report setting out a future-focused vision of education and demanding a major shift towards a culture of lifelong learning by 2050.
13 July 2020
A new UNESCO issue note , produced by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), aims to support education policy-makers and planners in ensuring open and distance learning to support youth and adult learning in the context...
18 June 2020
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) publication Books beyond Bars: The Transformative Potential of Prison Libraries , highlighting the contribution of prison libraries to the education and personal development of incarcerated adults and youth, is now available in French....
17 June 2020
From 26 May to 12 June 2020, a group of 12 high-level experts from a variety of research disciplines engaged in an online consultation to discuss the futures of lifelong learning. The consultation was organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).
The experts worked...
26 May 2020
UNESCO recently launched its Futures of Education initiative to reimagine knowledge and learning in an increasingly complex world. The use of the plural, futures, is deliberate to acknowledge a rich diversity of ways of knowing and being...
28 March 2020
Amid fast-paced socio-economic changes, as well as the constant need for upgrading skills and competencies for life and work, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are eager to implement Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on ‘Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and...
26 February 2020
The new issue of IRE considers whether instrumentalist estimations of the value of education are equal to the challenges the world faces
13 February 2020
On 4 and 5 February 2020, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) hosted a high-level meeting, where the role of universities in promoting lifelong learning was discussed. During the meeting, experts from universities, university associations, along with UNESCO representatives...
11 February 2020
In the latest entry to the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) blog Daniel Baril, Chair of the UIL Governing Board, writes: In matters of adult learning and education, we live in paradoxical times. On the one hand, learning needs are diversifying and adult education resources cover a...
22 January 2020
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) supports a series of actions underway to strengthen education systems from a lifelong learning perspective in Cambodia, China, the Philippines and Rwanda. Representatives of education ministries, professionals from other government sectors,...