From 24 to 25 July 2018, around 20 adult-education experts from 12 Arab countries came together in Beirut, Lebanon, to review existing strategies and monitoring tools for adult learning and education in the Arab States.
Country representatives from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman,...
Since 1967, the United Nations, its Member States and partners celebrate International Literacy Day on 8 September. Despite advancements in the global literacy agenda, much remains to be done:...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is setting out to stimulate a dialogue on current educational topics with a new series of events called Hamburg Education Talks . The first event will take place on the occasion of International Literacy Day (8 September) and will be...
Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, Niels Annen, visited the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) on 4 September to discuss current and future projects and collaboration.
Mr Annen, who was appointed Minister of State in March this year, met with UIL’s Director...
On 15 and 16 August 2018 one of the biggest local relay runs took place in Hamburg. Around 2,000 teams and 10,000 runners participated in this event and ran a relay under the motto ‘Achieving a goal together’. A UIL team also took part, running for ‘Lifelong learning for all’.
Promoting...
The Adult Education Authority (AEA) in the Egyptian Ministry of Education has just adopted a roadmap for the implementation of new national adult education quality standards.
This roadmap is based on the work of UIL’s former CONFINTEA Fellow Ms Nadia Salama Hashem Hassan, Adult Education...
The UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) and UIL have launched a research project on basic and non-formal education for ethnic minority groups living in communities along the Mekong River. The launch took place at the International Seminar on Education...
On 19 and 20 July 2018, experts came together at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning to discuss the development of a handbook on lifelong learning policy development and implementation.
An international team of specialists in the field of lifelong learning has been formed to...
The August issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) explores the development of adult education in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia between gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and their accession to the...
The fourth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 4) is in preparation and is scheduled for publication in 2019. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the GRALE 4 authors and editors defined the outline of the report and...
