UNESCO Publications
Below you can find a selection of UNESCO publications that are relevant in the context of TVET. For the full catalogue, please use the UNESCO Digital library

Education for Sustainable Development
An Expert Review of Processes and Learning
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a paradigm shift in education and goes beyond the traditional premise of education by providing individuals and communities, children and adults alike, with the savoir-faire to tackle the complexities of ...
Apprendre et travailler. Développement des compétences : Une campagne de motivation
L’UNESCO-UNEVOC a mis au point un kit de développement des compétences pour la formation et le travail. Il est destiné à faciliter l’organisation et la réalisation de campagnes de sensibilisation et de motivation à l'intention des groupes m ...

Case Study on "National Policies Linking TVET with Economic Expansion: Lessons from Singapore"
Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012. Youth and skills: Putting education to work
Case Study on TVET reforms in Singapore from 1960 to 2010 in line with the countries economic development, from labour driven to capital driven to knowledge driven. "The Singapore Government believes in and has invested continuously and heavily in ed ...

Good practices in TVET reform
Eight examples of reform in technical and vocational education and training
TVET Policy Review: Malawi
Policy reviews aim to improve TVET policies and the TVET system in the reviewed country and to further local capacity to undertake strategic TVET policy analysis and planning that is aligned with sustainable development priorities. The following ...

Secondary Education Regional Information Base: Country Profile
Pakistan
This publication is part of a series of Secondary Education Regional Information Base Country Profiles developed by the Education Policy and Reform (EPR) Unit in collaboration with the Assessment, Information System, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) ...

Secondary Education Regional Information Base: Country Profile
Indonesia
Country Profiles provide basic information on the status and functioning of secondary education in each country of the region in a user-friendly format.
Users will find answers to such questions as:
- Is secondary education free and compu ...

Secondary Education Regional Information Base: Country Profile
Indonesia
The Secondary Education Information Base: Country Profile uses statistics from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and national sources. Although, in principle, UIS statistics are used as the primary data source to facilitate comparison with other ...

Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development
This UNESCO report, the first ever international study on engineering, includes contributions, case studies, examples of good practice and solutions to issues and challenges we face from a hundred leading engineers and commentators around the world. ...

Media Literacy and New Humanism
In this monograph, media literacy is regarded in terms of its potential for humanisation and fostering the new humanism in order to foster understanding and respect for cultural diversity, encourage intercultural dialogue, and overcome the depersonal ...

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)
Report, Tenth session, Paris 28 September - 2 October 2009
The ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers was adopted on 5 October 1966. It sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, em ...

The challenges of free primary education in Ethopia
The abolition of school fees was integrated into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, and gradually rolled out across the country. The experience shows the importance of sustainability in planning and implementing policies, as well as the importance ...

Basic Texts
2010 edition
2010 edition including texts and amendments adopted by the General Cobferebce at its 35th session (Paris, 2009)

Incentive Structures as a capacity development strategy in public service delivery
This literature review presents several successful approaches to incentives. They target not only performance, but accountability, team spirit or other organizational intangibles that may have a positive impact on performance in the long term.

E-Learning in the Republic of Korea
Th is survey of ICT innovations in education in the Republic of Korea (ROK) introduces the ICT policies and initiatives, including the legal framework, organizational structure, budget, and policy implementation processes with a special focus on infr ...

Migrating alone
Unaccompanied and separated children's migration to Europe
The essays that make up this book tackle the question of child migration from legal, sociological and anthropologial perspectives, examining the situation in both countries of origin and receiving countries.

Implementing the Right to Education
A Compendium of practical examples
This publication is a compilation of practical examples of measures taken by Member States in implementing the provisions of the Convention and the Recommendation against Discrimination in Education. These examples are taken from national reports sub ...
Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States: A Joint Project of UNESCO and the StratREAL Foundation, United Kingdom
Case Studies on the Arab States (Jordan, Tunisia, Oman, Egypt) and Regional Synthesis Report
Four case studies on Jordan, Tunisia, Oman, and Egypt were conducted by a research team in the Arab region as part of Component I of the project "Entrepreneurship Education (EPE) in the Arab States" (2009-2012). The methodology used to conduct the ca ...
La durabilité du financement de la formation grâce à l’amélioration continue du système de taxe/allocation de formation
L’enseignement et la formation techniques et professionnels (EFTP) coûtant très cher, les gouvernements se voient contraints d’explorer différentes sources de financement. Si l’argent fait défaut, cette situation risque d’aboutir à un dà ...
Integrating Sustainable Development in Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Six Case Studies from Southern and Eastern Africa
The studies were commissioned in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius and Zambia. Carried out by writers connected with the UNEVOC Network as part of capacity building and of contributing to knowledge building and sharing, the authors have primarily de ...
Rediscovering Apprenticeship: Research Findings of the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP)
In this 11th volume of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Book Series, the renewed interest in the apprenticeship tradition and the various steps towards the implementation of innovative apprenticeship programmes are analyzed and discussed from different perspectives ...
UNESCO Bangkok E-Learning Series on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education
Published as CD-ROM or Online Course
UNESCO Bangkok with funding support from Japanese-Funds-In-Trust (JFIT) has published an e-learning CD-ROM containing two modules.
Module 1: ICT in Education Essentials: provides learners with essential information about ICT in education and a ...

Une Approche stratégique: le VIH & SIDA et l'éducation
International Conference on AIDS, 17th, Mexico City, 2008
International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work: Volume 3
Bridging Academic and Vocational Learning
This 6-volume Handbook covers in detail all of the latest practice in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Edited by two world-leading authorities on the subject, contributions have come from more than 200 international authors, ma ...
International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work: Volume 1
Bridging Academic and Vocational Learning
This 6-volume Handbook covers in detail all of the latest practice in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Edited by two world-leading authorities on the subject, contributions have come from more than 200 international authors, ma ...











