International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with t ...

Directory of Members 2005/2006
It provide up-to-date information of members of ALADIN members.

This booklet offers a set of principles and strateges to be considered in the development and implementation of results-based accountability systems. Technical and political issues are addressed as well as the ways in which educators, policymakers, a ...

An integrated Approach to Incorporating Values Education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UNESCO-APNIEVE sourcebook no.3 for Trainers,Teachers and Students in the Area of TVET.
Through its education policies and programmes UNESCO aims, first and foremost, to contribute to peace and harmony in the world. Its activities are primarily targeted at those people in the world who are the most in need and who suffer the most from t ...

Climate change, the global food crisis and the ongoing financial and economic crisis are examples of sustainability issues our societies have to cope with in a globalized world. In conducting pilot projects to better prepare children and young pe ...

A practical guide to the internet for journalists in developing countries
This training handbook is a resource (with a printed manual and a CD) designed for both print and broadcast journalists and journalism students in developing countries around the globe. The accompanying CD contains some software, other extra resource ...

The present document is the result of a joint effort carried out by ECLAC and UNESCO. Its objective is to present the major financing and management challenges currently presented by education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean at the beginni ...

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION. Technical Paper No. 2
The document offers guidelines for reorienting education to address sustainability. In addition, this document makes recommendations in a number of areas that are crucial to the success of reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. The ...

Tendencias y Debates - 4
Booklet about vocational education and work in Latin America.

Victims of warfare, famine, slavery, and isolation, the Southern Sudanese are one of the most undereducated populations in the world. Since the inception of formal education in southern Sudan a century ago, schooling has largely consisted of island-l ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Many existing education and training systems are seen as failing to support human and economic development, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. In thematizing the place of adult learning in the contemporary workplace, the present booklet ...

This volume examines the previously neglected domain of adult educator training as it has achieved greater visibility worldwide due to CONFINTEA V and its follow-up. It also points to the challenges involved in turning this new recognition into concr ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
ALADIN – the Adult Learning, Documentation and Information Network – was brought to life by the joint efforts of the UNESCO Institute for Education and numerous adult learning documentation and information centres around the world. With some 100 me ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
What role should institutions of higher education play in the development of adult learning? What changes to policy, planning, resources and administration are necessary to make these institutions more accessible to groups of learners outside the for ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Although figures on global poverty are shocking, poverty itself is not inevitable. Education and training are among the most important preconditions for breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and what it means for individuals – inadequate food, pollu ...

Report on the workship held at the CONFINTEA V Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Provided that creativity is not stifled in the process, monitoring and evaluation are valuable tools for the community of adult educators and researchers, playing an essential role in improving the conditions and quality of adult learning. In 1997, t ...

This document summarises some recent trends in secondary education policy in UNESCO's Member States and proposes a secondary education model that equips young people with multiple skills to enable them to enter and re-enter the workforce several time ...

Synthesis Report

success stories between realism and ambition
Report on the participation programme. the Participation Programme is an effective means of strengthening partnerships and improving the relevance of regional cooperation, of boosting the action of the National Commissions for UNESCO and strengthenin ...

Supporting Capacity Building in Basic education in SADC Countries

A sub-regional seminar for TVET policy-makers and UNEVOC Centre Coordinators in Centrel and East Africa
Final report on sub-regional seminar on UNESCO normative instruments for TVET

At the end of the 1990s, two large international forums organized by the International Organisation of the Francophonie (Bamako, 1998) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (Seoul, 1999) highlighted the imp ...

Explores some of the broader international and African antecedents to the arrival of educational policy before focusing more specifically on processes involved in the development and implementation of ECD policies in various countries in Africa.

HIV/AIDS at school
HIV/AIDS at school School kit: Young People Acting Together, Teachers Supporting Young People, Parents Supporting Young People. Living and Learning in a World with HIV/AIDS Contents: 3 booklets (for students, teachers and parents), 1 poster. ...

This book examines the experience of Senar, the "National service for rural apprenticeship", which has been a pioneer in vocational education and training in rural Brazil.