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  • Education in the age of artificial intelligence. The UNESCO Courier October-December 2023 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023)
    Education in the age of artificial intelligence “At a time when the field of education is in worldwide ferment, a single instructional phenomenon has captured the attention not only of professionals but of laymen.” Does ...
  • UNESCO’s efforts to achieve gender equality in and through education 2022 Highlights 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023)
    The Global Education 2030 Agenda UNESCO, as the United Nations’ specialized agency for education, is entrusted to lead and coordinate the Education 2030 Agenda, which is part of a global movement to eradicate poverty through ...
  • UNESCO SDG 4-Education 2030 input paper on global education coordination 

    Karen Mundy; Caroline Manion (UNESCO, 2023)
    The appetite for correcting global governance gaps in education has accelerated among international funders of education and within UN agencies in recent years, in part stimulated by UNESCO’s own effort to build a ...
  • Policy Brief: The representation of women in academia and higher education management positions 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023-03-08)
    This policy brief discusses the representation of women in different academic positions and the policies that can be put in place to support gender equality within higher education institutions (HEIs). • Globally, women ...
  • Teaching requirement policies globally and their implications for monitoring SDG 4 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023-09)
    Teachers are the cornerstone to inclusive, equitable and high-quality education. The current SDG monitoring framework on teaching requirements, however, is based on national definitions and, as a result, masks critical ...
  • Impact Investment in Sport Innovating the Funding of Sport for Development 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023)
    Fit for Life Linking sport investment with measurable impact Global data continues to show a strong link between grassroots sport participation and sustainable development. Current research on the social returns generated ...
  • Education in the age of artificial intelligence 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2023)
    Since ChatGPT pushed generative artificial intelligence into the public awareness in late 2022, many journalists and ministers of education have asked me: "Is digital technology a good or a bad thing for education?" The ...
  • Education: still searching for Utopia? 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
    Education transforms lives At a time of heightened global tension, when human rights, freedom of speech, peace and the future of the planet itself may seem challenged as never before, the transformational power of education ...
  • Education Finance Watch 2023 

    The World Bank; UNESCO (The World Bank & UNESCO, 2023)
    The Education Finance Watch (EFW) is a collaborative effort between the World Bank (WB), the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The EFW aims to provide an analysis of ...
  • Agenda 2030: challenges for us all 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
    In this issue Since 1948, the UNESCO Courier has served as a platform for international debates on issues that concern the entire planet. This first issue of 2017. which marks the Courier's revival after a five-year break, ...
  • Confintea VII Seventh International Conference on Adult Education: Final Report 

    UNESCO (UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Feldbrunnenstrasse 58 20148 Hamburg, Germany, 2023)
    The International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) is a UNESCO intergovernmental conference for policy dialogue on adult learning and education (ALE) and related research and advocacy, which has taken place every ...
  • Building Better Formal TVET Systems 

    International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; The World Bank; UNESCO; The International Labour Organization (The World Bank, UNESCO and ILO, 2023)
    A broken link between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems and labor markets prevents TVET from delivering on its promise in low- and middle-income countries. With its unique focus on workforce ...
  • Good Practices in South- South and Triangular Cooperation To Transforming Education and Delivering on SDG4 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, UNICEF & UNOSSC, 2023)
    South-South and triangular cooperation is at the heart of SDG4 implementation on Quality Education. As demonstrated in the last few years, this kind of cooperation can mobilize action, ambition, solidarity and solutions ...
  • General Guidelines for the Implementation of Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions 

    Unknown author (UNESCO, 2023)
    The 2030 Agenda is underpinned by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are the common goals that humanity has chosen for itself through the agreement of all the United Nations Member States. The SDGs are ...
  • Youth And Skills 

    UNESCO (UNESCO, 2012)
    With just three years to go until the deadline for the Education for All goals that were set in Dakar, Senegal, it is vitally urgent to ensure that the collective commitments made by 164 countries in 2000 are met. ...
  • Using International Surveys Of Achievement And Literacy 

    Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2004)
    Recent years have seen an increasing number of international surveys of learning achievement of children and of functional literacy of adults. These include the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the Trends ...
  • UNEVOC In Action 2002-2003 

    UNESCO (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, 2004)
    In 1991, the General Conference of UNESCO decided to launch the International Project on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNEVOC). Two years later an Implementation Unit became operational in Berlin. The ...
  • Transforming TVET- From Idea To Action 

    UNESCO (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2012)
  • Towards An Open Learning World 

    Maren Ed., Elfert (UNESCO, 2002)
    An historical account of the creation and development of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) is presented. Written in honor of the 50th anniversary of UIE, this institutional history begins with a series of seven ...
  • The Right To Education 

    Daudet, Yves; Singh, Kishore (UNESCO, 2008)
    Today the international community is faced with increasingly serious problems: proliferating acts of violence and conflicts; poverty and illiteracy; the gap between rich and poor; and marginalization and social exclusion ...

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