The Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (2015, RALE) and the Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (2015, TVET) were signed by the President of UNESCO’s General Conference, Mr Stanley Mutumba Simataa, and UNESCO’s Director-General, Ms Irina Bokova. The revision of these key international normative instruments responds to the international community’s request to adapt them to reflect new educational, social, economic, cultural and political trends. The revision is also timely as both recommendations are valuable resources to support Member States’ policy reforms as implementation of the Education 2030 Framework for Action and the wider 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development gets underway.

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Ministers of education, representatives of related ministries, education specialists and civil society representatives from seventeen countries in the Caribbean came together in Montego Bay, Jamaica, for a major sub-regional meeting on youth and adult learning and education. The purpose of the two-day ministerial meeting, which took place on 30 June and 1 July 2016, was to follow up on the implementation of the action areas agreed upon in 2009 at the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) in Belém, Brazil. Participants affirmed their countries’ commitment to making lifelong learning ‘a necessity and not an option’. They agreed that this will involve developing contextualized policies and strategies that address the specific learning and education challenges facing the Caribbean sub-region.

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Fostering lifelong learning through the effective recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of basic youth and adult education

On 23 and 24 June 2016, an international expert meeting on the Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of Basic Youth and Adult Education as a Foundation for Lifelong Learning took place at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg.

Participants of the expert meeting agreed that more needs to be done to integrate learning outcomes of youth and adult literacy and basic education into regional and national policies. They also reaffirmed the relevance of research in RVA, given the huge number of young people and adults around the globe that lack recognition of their skills and the ambitious targets of SGD 4 that need to be met.

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UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities’ (GNLC) documents and materials now available in all six UN languages

The UNESCO GNLC’s Guiding Documents, the Guidelines for Building Learning Cities and the Mexico City Statement on Sustainable Learning Cities have been translated into all six official languages of the United Nations (UN). The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities official video has also been subtitled with all the six official languages. The documents and the video are now available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

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The role of libraries in addressing
literacy challenges

‘How Libraries Support National Literacy Efforts’ was a significant two-day workshop that for the first time brought together participants from all world regions [14] to discuss ways in which countries can harness the potential of libraries in order to sufficiently address literacy challenges. The workshop took place at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg on 5 and 6 April. Participants at the meeting developed recommendations on how governments could empower libraries to serve as national literacy assets.

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Three Programme Coordinators [18]

Due to institutional restructuring, UIL is seeking to recruit three Programme Coordinators to join its team.

Deadline: 15 August, 2016

30-31 August 2016
Recognising Green Skills in Non-formal Learning Settings: A Comparative Study in Asia [19]

This is a symposium that aims to highlight the importance of recognising green skills in settings of non-formal and informal learning.
Venue:
UIL, Hamburg

8 September 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the International Literacy Day [20]

The third Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE III) will be launched at this year's event [21].
Venue:
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

#LiteracyDay and #50ILD
 

9 September 2016
Launch of the Global Alliance for Literacy within the Framework of Lifelong Learning (GAL) [22]

GAL seeks to bring together key stakeholders and partners committed to building a more literate world.
Venue:
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

27-28 September 2016
Think-tank meeting on lifelong learning in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [23]

The Meeting will seek to operationalise the concept of lifelong learning, clarify related issues, highlight the impact of lifelong learning policies, and showcase innovative practices in areas such as active citizenship, workforce development, health and well-being, and social integration.
Venue:
UIL, Hamburg

Cork City to host the third international conference on Learning Cities in 2017 [24]
Venue:
Cork City, Ireland