UNESCO Publications

Discussion Paper series 1
This paper discusses the concept of technical and vocational training and its role in promoting and supporting sustainable development. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) takes on a complex and distinctive character with regard to ...

A Campaign Package
UNESCO-UNEVOC has developed a "Skills Development Package for Learning and Working". The aim of this resource kit is to help facilitate the organization and implementation of awareness and motivation campaigns for marginalized groups in least develop ...

Stimulating Entrepreneurial Spirit through Entrepreneurship Education in Secondary Schools
In line with the World Declaration on Education for All and the Millennium Goal of halving poverty in the world by the year 2015, education is expected to serve not only the acquisition of academic knowledge but also the preparation of young people f ...

Following the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Meeting on "Innovation and Excellence in TVET Teacher and Trainer Education" at Hangzhou / China on November 8 - 10th 2004, the Chinese Ministry of Education through Tianjin University, UNESOC-UNEVOC and the ...

The implementation of the Bologna Declaration (1999) has resulted in major changes to degree structures in Germany. The recommendation to adopt a two-cycle system of degree awards (Bachelor and Master) within a given timeframe represents a radical co ...

Reproduced from Education Today, No. 13, April-June 2005 with the permission of UNESCO Paris
Technical and vocational education and training has fueled phenomenal economic growth in some countries and fallen short of expectations in others. Globalization is prompting governments to take renewed interest in this branch, still perceived as se ...

UNESCO Bangkok Office
The "ICT in Education Announcement" newsletter was sent to subscribers every month, informing them of the latest "ICT in Education" news in the Asia-Pacific region, and about useful projects and resources for policy makers, educators and researchers. ...

The analytical survey was prepared within the framework of the project Information and Communication Technologies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training launched by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education in 2002. ...

International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with t ...

Directory of Members 2005/2006
It provide up-to-date information of members of ALADIN members.

This booklet offers a set of principles and strateges to be considered in the development and implementation of results-based accountability systems. Technical and political issues are addressed as well as the ways in which educators, policymakers, a ...

An integrated Approach to Incorporating Values Education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UNESCO-APNIEVE sourcebook no.3 for Trainers,Teachers and Students in the Area of TVET.
Through its education policies and programmes UNESCO aims, first and foremost, to contribute to peace and harmony in the world. Its activities are primarily targeted at those people in the world who are the most in need and who suffer the most from t ...

Climate change, the global food crisis and the ongoing financial and economic crisis are examples of sustainability issues our societies have to cope with in a globalized world. In conducting pilot projects to better prepare children and young pe ...

A practical guide to the internet for journalists in developing countries
This training handbook is a resource (with a printed manual and a CD) designed for both print and broadcast journalists and journalism students in developing countries around the globe. The accompanying CD contains some software, other extra resource ...

The present document is the result of a joint effort carried out by ECLAC and UNESCO. Its objective is to present the major financing and management challenges currently presented by education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean at the beginni ...

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION. Technical Paper No. 2
The document offers guidelines for reorienting education to address sustainability. In addition, this document makes recommendations in a number of areas that are crucial to the success of reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. The ...

Tendencias y Debates - 4
Booklet about vocational education and work in Latin America.

Victims of warfare, famine, slavery, and isolation, the Southern Sudanese are one of the most undereducated populations in the world. Since the inception of formal education in southern Sudan a century ago, schooling has largely consisted of island-l ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Many existing education and training systems are seen as failing to support human and economic development, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. In thematizing the place of adult learning in the contemporary workplace, the present booklet ...

This volume examines the previously neglected domain of adult educator training as it has achieved greater visibility worldwide due to CONFINTEA V and its follow-up. It also points to the challenges involved in turning this new recognition into concr ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
ALADIN – the Adult Learning, Documentation and Information Network – was brought to life by the joint efforts of the UNESCO Institute for Education and numerous adult learning documentation and information centres around the world. With some 100 me ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
What role should institutions of higher education play in the development of adult learning? What changes to policy, planning, resources and administration are necessary to make these institutions more accessible to groups of learners outside the for ...

Report on the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Although figures on global poverty are shocking, poverty itself is not inevitable. Education and training are among the most important preconditions for breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and what it means for individuals – inadequate food, pollu ...

Report on the workship held at the CONFINTEA V Mid-term Review Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003
Provided that creativity is not stifled in the process, monitoring and evaluation are valuable tools for the community of adult educators and researchers, playing an essential role in improving the conditions and quality of adult learning. In 1997, t ...

This document summarises some recent trends in secondary education policy in UNESCO's Member States and proposes a secondary education model that equips young people with multiple skills to enable them to enter and re-enter the workforce several time ...