23 March 2018
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...
7 March 2018
‘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...
1 March 2018
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...
28 February 2018
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),...
23 February 2018
Ugandan scholar Mr Willy Ngaka spent February 2018 at the UIL Library conducting research on community libraries and their influence on literacy development and lifelong learning.
Mr Ngaka is a researcher and lecturer at Markerere University and Uganda Technology and Management...
21 February 2018
Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay,Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2018
Today, UNESCO marks the nineteenth International Mother Language Day. This is an opportunity to recall our Organization’s commitment to...
13 February 2018
The Global Book Alliance (GBA), which promotes the development of mother-tongue reading materials, held its first regional workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 22 to 25 January 2018. Representatives from one lusophone...
12 February 2018
Eleven members of the Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN) have been granted free one-year online subscription to the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE ) starting January 2018.
The IRE is the longest-running...
12 February 2018
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) regularly publishes a Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) in order to monitor developments in adult learning and education...
30 January 2018
Cities across Mexico continue to adopt the learning city concept following the second International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), which took place in...