In the final year of the United Nations Decade for Sustainable Development (2005–2014), more than 650 policymakers and practitioners of community-based learning and education from Japan and other countries are gathering in Okayama City to share experiences and exchange opinions during the...
40 adult education specialists, including senior staff of the Mexican National Adult Education Institute (INEA) , the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and an international team of...
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, an International Conference on “Girls’ and Women’s Literacy and Education: Foundation for Sustainable Development” took place in Dhaka on 8 September 2014. It was organised by the Government of Bangladesh in partnership with UNESCO and in support of...
To coincide with International Literacy Day, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched the following new publications:
Harnessing the Potential of ICTs for Literacy Teaching and Learning
A compilation...
On 10 September, UIL and the Hamburg State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development (LI) held a public event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hamburg’s award-winning Family Literacy project (FLY).
The event which was opened with a musical presentation by Gino Romero...
In its journey from post-conflict reconstruction to sustainable peace and development, Timor-Leste as a young independent state faces the challenge of a high proportion of adults without education. In 2010 a national census stated that 30% of men and 37% of women have never attended school,...
UIL, together with the UNESCO Office Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Dakar (BREDA) and the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja is coordinating the development of a West African curriculum framework for formal and non-formal bilingual education. As part of this initiative seven...
To celebrate the achievements of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) and to help develop future education agendas, UNESCO and the Government of Japan are organising the ...
Basic skills for social inclusion and cohesion was the thematic focus of the fourth Annual Conference of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) , which was hosted by the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, and the Hungarian Association for...
The action research on the measurement of learning outcomes of literacy programmes’ participants (RAMAA) project, initiated by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), aims to develop and use efficient tools and methods to measure the learning outcomes of young people and adults (15+)...
