UNESCO Publications

28-30 October 2013, Moscow, Russian Federation
The UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum for Europe and North America was co-hosted by Moscow-based CVETS National Observatory on Vocational Education/Centre for VET Studies, with the support of the Moscow Institute for the Development of Education. It w ...

The focus of the seventh booklet of the Asia-Pacific Education System Review Series is on making TVET accessible to more young people in the Asia and the Pacific. Sustainable economic development in the region depends heavily on addressing skills mis ...

UNESCO’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system policy review for Cambodia responds to an invitation from the Government of Cambodia to UNESCO to conduct a review of the country’s TVET system and to engage in a policy dialo ...

27–28 August 2013, San José, Costa Rica
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...

4–6 September 2013, Seoul, Republic of Korea
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...

Report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC online conference 22 October to 2 November 2012
From 22 October to 2 November 2012, a moderator-driven discussion was held on the topic of greening TVET for sustainable development. Moderated by Mr Kai Gleissner from the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, a UNEVOC Centre, the virtua ...

From 14 to 16 November 2012, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organized a three-day International Forum on ‘the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET for a sustainable future’ in Bonn, Germany. The Forum was also organized to commem ...

Shanghai Update Issue No. 1, June 2013
In 2012, over 700 experts in technical and vocational education and training, including 40 ministers and deputy ministers, attended the UNESCO Third International Congress on TVET in Shanghai, China. They came to Shanghai in order to discuss the tran ...

The essays presented in this e-publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO’s new Education on the Move series. Just like the latter, they cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, ...

Quarterly review of comparative education, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2013
Articles: * Clementina Acedo, The politics of education, fragility and conflict * Lene Buchert, Introduction—Understanding education, fragility and conflict * Mieke T. A. Lopes Cardozo, Turbulence in Bolivia’s normales: Teacher education as a ...

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 ...

Challenges of integration
This publication is an initiative of the UNESCO Brasilia Office intending to contribute to the implementation and monitoring of a new proposal of building secondary education integrated to technical and vocational education, occasioned by reformulati ...

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is pleased to announce the publication of its Second Global Report on Adult Learning and Education - Rethinking Literacy. The first GRALE was published in December 2009 to coincide with the Sixth Inter ...

Dieser Flyer beschäftigt sich mit dem UNESCO-UNEVOC Internationalen Zentrum und dessen Aufgaben, Ziele und Wertvorstellungen. In diesem Dokument sind deshalb auch UNEVOCs Aktivitäten auf einem Blick zu finden , sodass Schwerpunkte der Organisation ...

A joint project between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation, UK
The regional synthesis report on Component II of the initiative highlights the results and outcomes of the project in the four participating countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Oman. The regional experiences reflect a growing importance to ...

The UNESCO-UNEVOC in brief brochure provides a quick overview of the work of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre.

For Teachers
The purpose of the publication is to describe ways in which education for sustainable development (ESD) can be integrated into primary and secondary schooling. This collection of briefs is designed to complement other ESD materials published by UNESC ...

on “Transforming TVET: Building skills for work and life” Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 14 to 16 May 2012
General report on the conference

Youth and skills: putting education to work

Inter-Agency Working Group on TVET Indicators
The report is organized into three main parts. The first part presents the conceptual framework used to develop the five broad policy areas and describes their scope. The second part focuses on the main indicators for each policy area. A range of in ...

In an interview published by UNESCO Bangkok, UNESCO Programme Specialist Mr Youngsup Choi challenges common perceptions on TVET.

Main working Document for the International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Shanghai 2012
The UNESCO study looks in depth at the major trends and policy developments in TVET since the Second International Congress held in Seoul in 1999. This work has two main objectives. The first is to analyse world trends in TVET in the context of wider ...

Meeting Report, Bonn, Germany, 12 to 14 September 2012
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organized a consultation meeting of Cluster Coordinating UNEVOC Centres in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 14 September 2012. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the role of Cluster Coordinating UNEVOC Centres in or ...

This special report is prepared by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) within the framework of the joint project with the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of CI ...

IITE has published an analytical report “Promotion of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in CIS countries”, prepared in the framework of the joint project of the Intergo ...