Interagency Working Group’s Initiatives
Support of initiatives for greening TVET and skills development by raising awareness, providing advocacy, sharing and disseminating good practices, knowledge and expertise.

After a first series of policy responses to the 2008–09 crisis aimed at sustaining domestic demand through expansionary anti-crisis packages, most European governments – starting with Greece, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania, and followed by many ot ...

Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work
Many young people around the world — especially the disadvantaged — are leaving school without the skills they need to thrive in society and find decent jobs. As well as thwarting young people’s hopes, these education failures are jeopardiz ...

One decade of UNESCO-UNEVOC
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of its establishment in Bonn in 2002, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre published a brochure retracing its activities over the last decade, in order to reflect on past achievements, present ongoing projec ...

Internationale Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft
The International Review of Education is edited by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, with the advice of an independent Editorial Board and the assistance of consulting editors and academic reviewers. The journal is the longest-runn ...

The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption ...

Towards a new Generation of Investment Policies
Prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) continue to be fraught with risks and uncertainties. At $1.5 trillion, flows of global FDI exceeded pre financial crisis levels in 2011, but the recovery is expected to level off in 2012at an estimated $1 ...

We need to put our world on a more sustainable development path. Yet reaching and teaching sustainability is still a paramount challenge. Without education, there can be no sustainable development. Education empowers people with the knowledge, skills ...

Asia-Pacific Education System Review Series No. 6.
This booklet analyses the information system supporting school-to-work transition in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The rationale for the study is underpinned by the importance of accurate and reliable information as the starting poin ...

This Guide to OER comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Edu ...

The UNESCO/UNEP YouthXchange guidebook on climate change and lifestyles is the first in a series of thematic guidebooks supporting the YouthXchange initiative. The thematic guidebooks take into account challenges, opportunities, good practices and ca ...

IICBA newsletter Vol. 13 No.1, January - June.
Articles: - Next steps in managing teacher migration: The role and status of migrant teachers in emergencies - Finding people to teach and making them good teachers in a complex IDP emergency: The case of Cote d’Ivoire from 2002 - Teacher migra ...

IICBA newsletter Vol. 13. No. 2 December, 2011
- New Challenges in TVET Teacher Education (Prof. Shyamal Majumdar, Ph.D.) - TVET Reform In Sub-Saharan Africa – An Institutional Perspective: The case of Mozambique (Jorgen Billetoft) - Challenges for Technical and Vocational Education and Trai ...

Version 2.0
The UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT) is intended to inform educational policy makers, teacher-educators, providers of professional learning and working teachers on the role of ICT in educational reform, as well as to assist Memb ...

UNEVOC Network Meeting, Final report. Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan (Russian Federation) June 29 – July 1, 2011
With the aim of sharing knowledge, fostering cooperation and mobilizing expertise and resources to enhance the role of TVET in meeting the educational, economic and social needs in the countries of the CIS and regions of the Russian Federation, the i ...

Major research projects by different international organizations concentrate on the “21st century competencies” in our knowledge economy driven by technology. The efforts aim at finding indicators, criteria, and benchmarks for international compa ...

A Review and Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in sub-Saharan Africa
The book addresses the issue of how to provide quality education to African children, adolescents and adults through the best-suited media and curricular content in order to achieve cohesion, inclusion and sustainable development.

Progress at risk
This issue of the ILO magazine focuses on discrimination at work and also features stories from the world of work: Domestic work, Gender-based violence, social justice...

Full Report + Summary (English and German)
Armed conflict is robbing 28 million children of an education by exposing them to widespread sexual violence, targeted attacks on schools and other abuses, the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report warns. The hidden crisis: Armed confl ...

Meeting the challenges of Expansion, Equity and Quality
In the current economic climate, how can African governments provide every child with a decent education? This report provides the statistical evidence to evaluate the policy trade-offs in responding to the rising demand for primary and secondary edu ...

Understanding fractions is one of the most important skills that need to be developed in the mathematics curriculum. It is essential for understanding algebra and geometry and other aspects of mathematics. Yet, fractions have proven to be very diffic ...

Follow-up of the 48th session of the International Conferenc eon education
Focusing on the theme “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future”, the Conclusions and Recommendations of the 48th UNESCO International Conference on Education (ICE) (Geneva, 2008) refer to a broadened conceptualization of inclusive education as ...

Sustaining Cultural Diversity in Small Island Developing States
The very notion of a ‘small island’ usually triggers several associations in the minds of continental dwellers. Remote, isolated, insular, even paradisiacal, are some of the more common imaginings about islands. Yet small island states and their po ...

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 ...