Societies in Northern Europe and parts of Asia are ageing rapidly, with fewer births and longer life expectancies. This demographic shift presents challenges in the realm of politics, employment, education and social services, among others.
The second Berlin Demography Forum was convened...
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) was established in 1965 to promote regional cooperation in education, science and culture. In 2013, SEAMEO agreed to the creation of the new Regional Centre for...
The Iranian government has committed to embedding lifelong learning into the national education policy, and to this end invoked a high-level workshop on lifelong learning, the first of its kind to be held in Iran.
The National Training Workshop on Innovative Concepts and Systems of...
Scotland’s Learning Partnership (SLP) is the umbrella organisation for 500 members working in adult learning, covering stakeholders from learners to colleges and universities. Scotland’s devolved government was established in...
The Erasmus Mundus Programme European Masters in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (MA LLL) was established in 2006 as the first pan-European programme dedicated to lifelong learning, offered by a...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), on behalf of the UNESCO Education Sector, has taken the initiative in working with Member States to develop the UNESCO Guidelines for...
Education is notoriously difficult to measure, as many processes and results are difficult to quantify. Oftentimes, quantitative assessments are limited to the question of access, leaving out the qualitative aspect of the actual learning. With the stated aim of increasing the effectiveness of...
In order to raise awareness of the importance of the UNESCO Guidelines on the Recognition, Validation and Accreditation (RVA) of the Outcomes of the Non-formal and Informal Learning the coordinators of the Back to Work project invited UIL to participate in the international conference The Role...
Europe is undergoing substantial demographic and technological changes, and will have to adapt its higher education system as a result. Methods for recognising prior learning (RPL) are becoming increasingly important, and will need to be compatible across national boundaries.
Against...
On 10 December 2012, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and the University of Hamburg invited ten young professors working in adult education and lifelong learning in Germany to come to Hamburg for a networking meeting. The objective was to bring together professors with an interest in...
