What is happening around lifelong learning these days? How are countries making lifelong learning a reality? What are the latest developments in policy and practice? This is issue No 5, 9 April 2019, of the UIL Lifelong Learning Alert.

The new service offers you regular insights and news on lifelong learning from all world regions. The alert is compiled regularly; the fourth issue is featured below and you can subscribe for this and other UIL publications here [1].

Europe and North America

Google

Free digital skills programs make learning a lifelong journey

Google is partnering with the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE) to train educators in all 50 states on essential digital skills for the evolving workforce. In the two years since launching Applied Digital Skills, a core part of the Grow with Google program, over a half-million students, including many adult learners, have used the curriculum to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

Asia and the Pacific

India Today

The changing roles of educators in 21st century

Educators have to reinvent their roles to become equally co-learners and collaborators. How effective technology is in a learning environment depends a lot on how robust the curriculum is and how much the teachers are working together to continuously improve.

Africa

Best Naira News

Addressing decline of reading culture in Nigeria

NIGERIA has been rated by the World Culture Score Index as one of the countries in the world with the lowest reading culture, while available statistics from National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education shows that 38 per cent of Nigerians are non-literate as four in ten primary school children cannot read for comprehension.

Arab States

Gulf News

Skills are the future and academia must understand the need for transformation

The comprehensive skill set of the future leaders will consist of basic business skills, leadership skills, critical thinking, innovation skills, lifelong learning, and understanding technology.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Bahamas Weekly

Reading is a human right

Give your brain a workout—read a book. Pump up the muscle mass between your two ears. Reading is that important. And people in all countries around the globe deserve the right to learn to read.

UIL Lifelong Learning Alert No 5 - 9 April 2019