23 June 2020
According to the latest UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR), Inclusion and education – All means all , which is published today, 14 per cent of adults worldwide lack basic reading and writing skills. The...
4 June 2020
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UNESCO, with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), is conducting a global landscape study entitled ‘From Radio to Artificial Intelligence: Innovative Literacy Learning and...
3 June 2020
A new UNESCO issue note, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Section of Education Policy at UNESCO Headquarters, aims to support education policy-makers and planners in ensuring the quality of learning is maintained in the context of the current pandemic, now and...
3 April 2020
An estimated 750 million youth and adults worldwide have still not achieved basic literacy; two-thirds of them are women. Of the youth and adults lacking basic literacy skills worldwide, 556 million live in only 29 countries. These countries constitute the Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL). To...
31 March 2020
In partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is launching a study on illiteracy and literacy strategies in the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad) and some neighbouring states (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire,...
21 February 2020
In a world increasingly globalized, multilingualism is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Supported by mother tongue-based multilingual education, linguistic diversity brings a number of benefits to the learners but also to society as a whole. Hence, growing evidence suggests that...
18 December 2019
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with national and local partners in selected countries in Africa and South Asia, has completed a series of capacity-building workshops on family literacy and learning. Literacy stakeholders from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, the Gambia...
27 November 2019
On 29 October 2019, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the UNESCO Office in Yaoundé, brought together experts in the fields of teacher training, learning materials development, and monitoring and evaluation for a workshop on improving the supply and quality...
14 November 2019
On 15 November 2019 at UNESCO’s 40 th General Conference in Paris, the Member States agreed to adopt a new UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy (2020-2025) .
For UNESCO’s Education Sector, constituted by its Headquarters, its...
25 September 2019
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the University of Hamburg hosted an international research seminar on literacy and lifelong learning on 12 September 2019. It provided a platform for discussing recent developments in literacy and lifelong learning from a research perspective...