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Nexus No 2, 2014 - the Newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

Posted September 3, 2014 - 10:19

Please find featured below and attached for download the latest issue of Nexus, the quarterly newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - 28-08-2014

Posted September 3, 2014 - 10:01

In this issue we feature 7 current papers on the theme of social capital:

European Institute of Community Reporters - What's the story?

Posted September 2, 2014 - 10:00

As part of James Powell developments for PUMR, he is working on a project with Peoples Voice Media called the European Institute of Community Reporters. This has been established so that just over 2,000 community reporters have been coached, and now coach themselves, to spread their own ‘Voices’ via social media on issues important to them, often through the use of short stories.

Education: What's the smartest post-2015 target?

Posted August 29, 2014 - 09:57

The Copenhagen Consensus Center has just released its latest research series on Education targets for the post-2015 agenda. What is the smartest education target? Reduce by 50% the proportion of children not in pre-school in sub-Saharan Africa. For every dollar spent, the net benefit is 33 dollars: