With the adoption of the Marrakech Framework for Action at the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education on 17 June 2022, representatives of over 140 countries committed to translating the vision of a right to lifelong learning into reality.
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...
On 28 April 2021, the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean and the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC), in collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), hosted online the regional preparatory...
On 20 January 2021, the UNESCO Beijing Cluster Office and UNESCO Bangkok, in cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), hosted the first sub-regional preparatory consultation for the...
More than 8,000 community learning centres (CLCs) across Viet Nam have reading corners as a result of a national strategy to promote a reading culture in the country. The strategy was developed by Ms Lien Anh Tong, a specialist in the Ministry of Education and Training’s Continuing Education...
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...
Suwon, Republic of Korea 25 October 2017 – More than 300 international stakeholders from 95 countries gathered today in Suwon, Republic of Korea, to review the implementation of adult learning and education across the world. At a global meeting organized jointly by the UNESCO...
CONFINTEA VI Mid-Term Review 2017
Lifelong learning , family literacy , adult learning and education (ALE), rural development and regional trends in adult education policy – these are some of the work topics of the new...
