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 14, 16 September 2019, of the UIL Lifelong Learning Alert.

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Africa New Era, Namibia School libraries the best weapon in education battlefield School libraries in Namibia play a significant role in providing information to support National Development Plans (NDPs), Vision 2030, National Revised Curriculum for Basic Education, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly SDG #4.    READ MORE  Arab States The Jordan Times Literacy programme draws on past success, revamps for futures The “Let’s Live in Harmony” multimedia literacy project was designed to improve literacy capabilities of refugee and Jordanian children    READ MORE  Latin America and the Caribbean The San Pedro Sun Literacy Day 2019 focuses on Multilingualism Under the theme “Literacy and Multilingualism,” International Literacy Day 2019 was celebrated in Belize by honoring literacy and multilingualism. Annually observed on September 8th, this year’s event was held on Friday, September 6th to ensure that schoolchildren were a part of the celebration.    READ MORE  Asia and the Pacific The New Indian Express Dropout rates of Muslim school students high in Bengal The school education and literacy department’s report expressed concern over the rate of school dropouts among the students from the minority community.  READ MORE  International Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Financing the UN Development System: Time for Hard Choices This report strives is to advance the quality of this evidence-based debate and to expand the marketplace of ideas related to the United Nations and development financing.    READ MORE  Dear subscribers, You may access previous editions of this alert through the following links:   16 August 2019 6 August 2019 31 July 2019 2 July 2019