To advance learning and capacity in planning and implementing effective open and distance learning (ODL) programmes for youth and adults, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) are launching a six-week online course on Implementing Open and Distance Learning for Youth and Adult Literacy.
There are an estimated 11 million people incarcerated worldwide. The prisons that hold them are frequently overcrowded and, as a result, are unable to provide key services in accordance with international conventions. For example, education is a fundamental human right of which prisoners should...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) welcomes chapter proposals for an edited volume on Family and intergenerational literacy and learning: International perspectives .
Family and intergenerational literacy and learning (FILL) programmes are an effective...
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 educational and personal development of incarcerated adults and youth, is now available in Spanish....
Lifelong learning is essential for the development of Côte d'Ivoire. The challenges, however, are stark, with 2.15 million children without access to school, a persistent lack of qualified teachers and 7.8 million youth and adults unable to read or write.
With the aim of constructing a...
On the occasion of Germany’s National Reading Aloud Day on 19 November 2021, the country’s Prison Library Support Group (Förderverein Gefangenenbüchereien e.V.) in cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), the Ministry of Justice of the German State of North Rhine-...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok) and the UNESCO Almaty Office have jointly published the issue note Promoting technology-enabled education and skills development in rural and remote areas of Central Asia...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have just published Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy. These guidelines will support literacy providers around the world in planning, implementing, monitoring and...
Many women from the rural villages in Kangulumira, Uganda, never learned how to read or write. They never had the opportunity to attend school past primary level 2. When money was tight, sons were sent to school and daughters worked the fields and were married off as soon as possible.
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Leveraging technological innovation is critical to enhancing lifelong learning opportunities for all youth and adults. That was the key message of the policy sessions organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with the Korea Education Frontier Association (KEFA),...
