David Atchoarena has been appointed Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg. Before his appointment, Mr Atchoarena was Director of the Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems at UNESCO in Paris. Mr Atchoarena has rich experience in the field of...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has just revamped its global Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN) web platform. Since 1997, this cooperative initiative has facilitated networking, information sharing and capacity-building...
The International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) has just released a special issue on massive open online courses (MOOCs). Edited by...
Throughout April 2018, all International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) special issues published in 2017 are available in open access.
‘Learning to live sustainably in cities: Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in learning cities’ was the theme of a regional conference held in Aswan, Egypt, from 5 to 7 March 2018. Around 50 participants from more than 15 countries, including city leaders and other...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has published five regional reports examining progress in adult learning and education in each world region, complementing the global perspective provided by the...
ALADIN welcomes five new members:
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt:
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina aims to be a centre of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge and...
‘Time is now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives’ is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD), which will be celebrated around the world on 8 March 2018.
Women around the world face several obstacles to improving their lives. For young women from rural...
The six articles contained in this year’s first issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE 64:1, Feb 2018) remind us that the forms, uses and values of education are as diverse as the human...
Montreal, Canada, 28 February 2018. New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has come to a standstill. According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS),...
