The Ministry of Education in Tanzania Mainland has asked UNESCO to assist in reviewing its education sector and in drafting an education sector plan for the next fifteen years. This technical assistance is funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). As part of a multidisciplinary...
A total of 139 participants representing governments, NGOs, academia and education practitioners from 27 European countries and international organizations attended the second conference of the European Literacy Policy Network (ELINET), which took place in Budapest from 20 to 22 April 2015. The...
Within the framework of the Enhancement of Literacy in Afghanistan (ELA) 3 Programme, which is funded by the governments of Japan, Sweden and Finland, UNESCO Kabul and the Afghan Ministry of Education’s Literacy Department organized a three-day workshop in Kabul from 13 to 15 April 2015 in order...
The motto of International Women’s Day (8 March) in 2015 is “Empower Women, Empower Humanity – Picture it!” For UIL, this means promoting recognition of the right to education and learning by women.
The...
Around 100 specialists, researchers and senior professionals from the formal and non-formal basic education sector met at an international symposium on 11 February in Mexico City. The symposium, entitled “Lifelong Literacy”, was co-organized by the...
An international seminar on the uses of literacy-related terminology in different European languages took place at UIL from 2 to 3 February. The event was co-organised by UIL and the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) of the Institute of Education,...
Professor Francis Hult, an educational linguist from Lund University (Sweden) visited UIL from 3 to 15 December as part of his sabbatical activities. UIL thanks him for taking the initiative to come to UIL and for his kind collaboration.
Professor Hult provided input on how the decisive...
UIL and the Hamburg State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development (LI) are pleased to present a short film, produced for the 10 th Anniversary of Hamburg’s Family Literacy Project (FLY). Since 2004, when FLY was launched by both institutions, it has helped thousands of...
UIL and the UNESCO office in Dakar have held the first technical workshop for phase II of the RAMAA project, which aims to develop qualitative methods and tools to evaluate adult literacy learning in different cultural and social contexts in order to improve the quality of programmes.
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At the upcoming World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014), UIL and Okayama City will co-host a workshop entitled ‘Local...
