Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, and Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Kingdom of Morocco, announced on Thursday that Morocco will host the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII), co-organized with UNESCO, from 15 to 17...
"Adult education is about more than learning", argues António Nóvoa, former Permanent Representative of Portugal to UNESCO, in his UIL blog which is the first in a series ahead of the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII). International Women’s Day is a reminder...
Following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Resolution on Aggression against Ukraine, and in light of the devastating escalation of violence, UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in Ukraine and is working to assess damage across its spheres of competence (notably...
On Tuesday 22 February 2022, Mr David Atchoarena, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Mr Abdessamih Mahmoud, Director of the Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l'Analphabétisme (ANLCA) and Ms Hélène Guiol, Head of the Education Programme at the UNESCO Office for the...
The latest issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) considers challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in the context of transnational migration and refugee studies...
To advance learning and capacity in planning and implementing effective open and distance learning (ODL) programmes for youth and adults, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) are launching a six-week online...
There are an estimated 11 million people incarcerated worldwide. The prisons that hold them are frequently overcrowded and, as a result, are unable to provide key services in accordance with international conventions. For example, education is a fundamental human right of which prisoners should...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) welcomes chapter proposals for an edited volume on Family and intergenerational literacy and learning: International perspectives .
Family and intergenerational literacy and learning (FILL) programmes are an effective...
Lifelong learning is essential for the development of Côte d'Ivoire. The challenges, however, are stark, with 2.15 million children without access to school, a persistent lack of qualified teachers and 7.8 million youth and adults unable to read or write.
With the aim of constructing a...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) publication Books beyond Bars: The Transformative Potential of Prison Libraries, highlighting the contribution of prison libraries to the educational and personal development of incarcerated adults and youth, is now available in Spanish....
