Learning cities in the Republic of Korea are moving in a new direction as eight cities join the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Bucheon, Gunpo, Jeonju, Namyangju, Osan, Suwon, Tongyeong and Uijeongbu are all contributing to an international dialogue on building sustainable learning cities. More...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is pleased to announce that the Irish city of Cork has been selected to host the 3rd International Conference on Learning Cities, which will take place in 2017. More...
The 13thPascal International Conference was held from 3-5 June 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). The Conference was organized by the Pascal International Observatory, a key partner of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC). Its main theme was the development of learning cities and the cross-cutting role they play in initiatives such as Smart Cities, Healthy Cities and Resilient Cities, which promote holistic approaches to urban development. More...
Ministers of education, representatives of related ministries, education specialists and civil society representatives from seventeen countries in the Caribbean came together in Montego Bay, Jamaica, for a major sub-regional meeting on youth and adult learning and education. More...
Lesbos Municipality, which is working to provide learning opportunities for all its residents, has joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC). The Municipality is one of an increasing number of thriving learning cities in Greece. More...
Three major events on developing learning cities in China took place in April 2016. These events, which were held in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai respectively, focused on identifying future directions for learning cities. As the coordinating body of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has been observing the development of learning cities in China with keen interest. UIL representatives provided input to all three of these recent events. More...
A webinar on ‘Empowering Girls and Women through Literacy and Secondary Education’. took place on 29 June 2016. More...
San José, a city characterized by colonial architecture and the Talamanca mountains that surround it, has set a milestone in the development of learning cities in Costa Rica by becoming the first city in the country to join the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. More...
Melitopol is the first city in Ukraine to join the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. By being the first to join the Network, the city aspires to lead the further understanding of the concept of learning cities among policy makers and local governments in Ukraine. More...
By Paul Kniest. The NTEU drew upon latest Departmental staffing data to illustrate the scale of insecure employment and the overreliance upon short -term research contracts. In the Health AOU, more than half of academic staff by FTE are employed on an insecure basis. More...
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