UNESCO Publications

Borhene Chakroun, Chief of Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development at UNESCO, and James Keevy, CEO at JET Education Services, write that the use of digital technologies in education and training supports the development of learning material ...

Ensuring an inclusive and gender-responsive learning environment is a goal of technical and vocational institutions in Malawi. Outlined are guidelines intended for administrators and instructors in technical, entrepreneurial and vocat ...

En el siguiente informe, se ofrece un panorama general del Programa Regional de Liderazgo en EFTP de UNEVOC para América Latina, el cual fue celebrado en la ciudad de Panamá (Panamá) del 27 al 31 de agosto del 2018.

The guidebook on Education for Sustainable Development for Educators: Effective teaching and learning in teacher education institutions in Africa has been conceived as a tool to mainstream sustainability into all aspects of teacher ed ...

In order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the ESD concept and ESD practices, this publication is divided into two parts: Understanding Education for Sustainable Development and Implementing Education for Sustainable Development. The fi ...

The report is organized into five sections. The first section synthesizes the key points from the Brussels Declaration as well as the debates and discussions from GEM 2018, clustering them around some of the main characteristics of education in the 2 ...

This booklet contains profiles of the current 96 members (also called Key Partners) of the GAP Partner Networks. Each Key Partner is listed in alphabetical order within one of the five Partner Networks. Each profile ...

The UNESCO Operational Strategy on Youth for 2014-2021 (OSY) guides the Organization’s work on Youth in the different strands of work within UNESCO’s mandate. It aims to ensure that young women and men are engaged in policies and programmes that ...

Recognizing that education is a fundamental human right and reiterating that Education 2030 agenda is inextricably linked with, and contributes to, the realization of our aspirations as set out in the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Developm ...

recognizing the competences of Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
This publication is the result of close collaboration between the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in Hamburg, Germany, and the UNESCO Beirut Office and Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States. The idea o ...

UNESCO Beirut and Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States
As a Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO Beirut (UBO) provides support to the Arab Region to improve the quality and relevance of education and learning and promote a holistic approach to education encompassing all levels, pathways and modes of del ...

The CapED Programme is UNESCO’s key operational arm and delivery platform in the framework of the Education 2030 agenda. With a capacity development approach focused on system strengthening, it supports least developed and fragile countries in the ...

This case study seeks to provide current information on the state of WBL in Jordan by examining the national context, the nature and extent of WBL, policies and legislations, employer and employee organizations, resources to improve the quality of WB ...

The report covers assessments on labor market studies’ methodologies, data collection, and interest in LMIS in Lebanon. The interviews identified barriers for data collection but producers expressed interest in gathering data from a national LMIS t ...

October 2018
The ninth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus the Better Education for Africa’s Rise (BEAR) initiative as well as a Learning Forum on Managing skills in times of disruption.

Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls
The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report examines the education impact of migration and displacement across all population movements: within and across borders, voluntary and forced, for employment and education. It also reviews progress on educat ...

Linking technical and vocational education and training with post-secondary education
Until recently, few graduates of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) aspired to further learning, particularly higher education. But higher-level qualifications are now a common expectation among young people, reflecting increased ...

Version 3
The ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT) Version 3 is a tool to guide pre- and in- service teacher training on the use of ICTs across the education system. It is intended to be adapted and contextualized to support national and institution ...

Implications for the recognition of learning across borders
Digital technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges for skills development and recognition globally. Changes in modalities of access and learning methods, massification and internationalization, are taking place at an increasingly rapi ...

Report of the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018, 26-30 March 2018
All over the world, the way we educate and are educated is changing. New technologies, platforms and ways of reading the world are transforming the philosophies underpinning education pedagogies and modes of delivery. New voices, hitherto unheard, ar ...

Today, technical and vocational skills development is considered to be a crucial vehicle for sustainable development. Many ministries of government, the private sector and other stakeholders, have an interest in technical and vocational skills develo ...

What conclusions can we draw from international comparative indicators?
This report looks at the conditions impacting the development of digital skills based on five international comparative surveys, the results of which reveal a sample group of twelve countries whose population have particularly high levels of digital ...

The private sector contribution
The international community has set an ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Agenda and education and training are central to its achievement. In this context, the international community also adopted a framework for action “Education 2030 Agenda†...

This discussion paper concerns recent trends and major challenges in developing effective and trustworthy representation of skills, competencies and qualifications. It starts with the recognition that today’s learning opportunities are limitless, b ...

March 2018
The eighth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus a recent TVET conference and the resulting updated skills agenda, as well as issues related to greening and quality assurance.