UNESCO Publications

A Review and Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in sub-Saharan Africa
The book addresses the issue of how to provide quality education to African children, adolescents and adults through the best-suited media and curricular content in order to achieve cohesion, inclusion and sustainable development.

Progress at risk
This issue of the ILO magazine focuses on discrimination at work and also features stories from the world of work: Domestic work, Gender-based violence, social justice...

Full Report + Summary (English and German)
Armed conflict is robbing 28 million children of an education by exposing them to widespread sexual violence, targeted attacks on schools and other abuses, the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report warns. The hidden crisis: Armed confl ...

Meeting the challenges of Expansion, Equity and Quality
In the current economic climate, how can African governments provide every child with a decent education? This report provides the statistical evidence to evaluate the policy trade-offs in responding to the rising demand for primary and secondary edu ...

Understanding fractions is one of the most important skills that need to be developed in the mathematics curriculum. It is essential for understanding algebra and geometry and other aspects of mathematics. Yet, fractions have proven to be very diffic ...

Follow-up of the 48th session of the International Conferenc eon education
Focusing on the theme “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future”, the Conclusions and Recommendations of the 48th UNESCO International Conference on Education (ICE) (Geneva, 2008) refer to a broadened conceptualization of inclusive education as ...

Sustaining Cultural Diversity in Small Island Developing States
The very notion of a ‘small island’ usually triggers several associations in the minds of continental dwellers. Remote, isolated, insular, even paradisiacal, are some of the more common imaginings about islands. Yet small island states and their po ...

An Expert Review of Processes and Learning
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a paradigm shift in education and goes beyond the traditional premise of education by providing individuals and communities, children and adults alike, with the savoir-faire to tackle the complexities of ...

Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012. Youth and skills: Putting education to work
Case Study on TVET reforms in Singapore from 1960 to 2010 in line with the countries economic development, from labour driven to capital driven to knowledge driven. "The Singapore Government believes in and has invested continuously and heavily in ed ...

Eight examples of reform in technical and vocational education and training

Policy reviews aim to improve TVET policies and the TVET system in the reviewed country and to further local capacity to undertake strategic TVET policy analysis and planning that is aligned with sustainable development priorities. The following ...

Pakistan
This publication is part of a series of Secondary Education Regional Information Base Country Profiles developed by the Education Policy and Reform (EPR) Unit in collaboration with the Assessment, Information System, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) ...

Indonesia
Country Profiles provide basic information on the status and functioning of secondary education in each country of the region in a user-friendly format. Users will find answers to such questions as: - Is secondary education free and compu ...

Indonesia
The Secondary Education Information Base: Country Profile uses statistics from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and national sources. Although, in principle, UIS statistics are used as the primary data source to facilitate comparison with other ...

This UNESCO report, the first ever international study on engineering, includes contributions, case studies, examples of good practice and solutions to issues and challenges we face from a hundred leading engineers and commentators around the world. ...

In this monograph, media literacy is regarded in terms of its potential for humanisation and fostering the new humanism in order to foster understanding and respect for cultural diversity, encourage intercultural dialogue, and overcome the depersonal ...

Report, Tenth session, Paris 28 September - 2 October 2009
The ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers was adopted on 5 October 1966. It sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, em ...

This book tracks the ways skills have gained importance both in the developing and the more industrialized world. It analyses critically the multiple drives of skills development and the linkages of skills to the knowledge economy, growth, and employ ...

The abolition of school fees was integrated into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, and gradually rolled out across the country. The experience shows the importance of sustainability in planning and implementing policies, as well as the importance ...

2010 edition
2010 edition including texts and amendments adopted by the General Cobferebce at its 35th session (Paris, 2009)

This literature review presents several successful approaches to incentives. They target not only performance, but accountability, team spirit or other organizational intangibles that may have a positive impact on performance in the long term.

Th is survey of ICT innovations in education in the Republic of Korea (ROK) introduces the ICT policies and initiatives, including the legal framework, organizational structure, budget, and policy implementation processes with a special focus on infr ...

Unaccompanied and separated children's migration to Europe
The essays that make up this book tackle the question of child migration from legal, sociological and anthropologial perspectives, examining the situation in both countries of origin and receiving countries.

A Compendium of practical examples
This publication is a compilation of practical examples of measures taken by Member States in implementing the provisions of the Convention and the Recommendation against Discrimination in Education. These examples are taken from national reports sub ...