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In her message on the occasion of International Mother Language Day , the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, emphasises the importance of mobilising for multilingualism and linguistic...

In Africa, the evaluation of learning is a weak point in literacy policy. In most cases, assessment is narrowly related to curricula and/or carried out internally by the course provider. This practice reduces the scope of evaluation to merely that of justifying the resources used. It is rarely...

This year’s LitCam event took place on 4 and 5 October 2010 in Frankfurt under the theme “Literacy and Human Rights”. Keynote speakers were Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Alberto Estanislao Sileoni, Minister of Education, Argentina (the 2010...

The International Literacy Day 2010 puts the emphasis on women, who account for two thirds of the world’s 796 million illiterate adults. The theme “The Power of Women’s Literacy” , points to the transformational effect that literacy can have on women’s lives and those of their families,...

Advancing lifelong learning for all is one of UIL’s Medium-Term (2008-2013) strategic objectives, and capacity-building for effective lifelong learning policies and practice is a key area. UIL has a mandate to

One of two awards of the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2010 is attributed to the State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development in Hamburg, Germany for the Family Literacy Project (FLY). This intergenerational approach, with parents participating in and benefiting from their...

In collaboration with the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has just published the enclosed evidence- and practice-based policy advocacy brief on why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual...