The multi-country research project on measuring literacy programme participants’ learning outcomes (RAMAA) will assess the competences of beneficiaries of adult literacy programmes in Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, Niger and Senegal. The learners’ competences will be assessed against a set of...
2 April 2012 marks the anniversary of UIL’s Effective Literacy Practices Database (LitBase) , which was launched by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning as a comprehensive database on innovative and effective...
Research findings and trends in language-in-education policy-making and educational practice were discussed at a meeting of South Sudanese and international specialists and government representatives.
The conference, held in Juba from 4 to 7 March, was co-organised by the British Council...
With specialists from UNESCO Maputo and the UNESCO Capacity Development for EFA (CapEFA) Programme Team, UIL gave technical assistance at a national seminar in Mozambique to measure the existing capacity of the adult education sub-sector against desired capacity levels. The seminar, which took...
About 300 participants attended a three-day International Conference, ‘Integration of academic courses with vocational education in secondary schools’, held in New Delhi, India from 17 to19 February 2012. The conference was organised by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in...
The global mid-term evaluation report on UNESCO’s Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015), produced by UIL, is now available in print in English and French. The report, entitled Looking Forward with LIFE , takes stock of the first five years of LIFE implementation and recommends...
At the suggestion of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), two case studies were featured in a short documentary programme on Euronews’ Learning World last Friday, 10 February. Community learning centres in Thailand and the recognition of prior learning in Mauritius were shown as...
The global mid-term evaluation report on UNESCO’s Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015), produced by UIL on the basis of national and regional mid-term evaluation processes and reports, is now available...
A special feature of the EURO-ALPHA Network, of which UIL is a member, is the direct involvement of learners in a process to develop a manifesto with their demands. The overall goal of EURO-ALPHA is to document, share, generate and disseminate “good practice” in empowering approaches to literacy...
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and UNESCO Cairo Office are partnering with the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute to co-organise a sub-regional policy forum on literacy and basic life skills for vulnerable youth in the Arab region in Cairo from 17 to 20 December 2011 with the...
