The recent African Universities Summit organised by Times Higher Education at the University of Johannesburg showed that many African universities were interested in expanding their international profiles and engaging with the global rankings. So far very few universities from the continent have made an impact on the major international rankings. More...
By Andreas Schleicher. It’s that time of year; and as sure as there are new pencil cases on desks, pristine notebooks in backpacks and fresh textbooks with nary a wrinkle up their spines, there’s a new batch of OECD reports ready to inform and challenge your thinking about education. Read more...
By Roel Nieuwenkamp. Aside from promoting engagement with suppliers and communities that often include vulnerable populations the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises also encourage local capacity building through close co-operation with the local community and human capital formation, in particular by creating employment opportunities and facilitating training opportunities for employees. More...
By Roel Nieuwenkamp. Inclusive business and inclusive growth have of late become powerful buzz words in the realm of international policy. Inclusive business is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis to people at the base of the pyramid by making them part of the value chain of companies’ core business as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers. More...
By Erik Solheim. The global development progress over the past decades has been unprecedented in human history. Extreme poverty has been halved and in the People’s Republic of China alone, more than 600 million people have been brought out of poverty. More...
By Mary Robinson. The report of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the discussions of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals highlight the need for the international community to commit to leaving no one behind. In this sense, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to ensuring universal access to sustainable energy; it will require a continuum of approaches, from market-based ones to those supported by the public sector. More...
Preparing the way for the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda, two seasoned experts on literacy, Ulrike Hanemann (senior programme specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, UIL) and Veronica McKay (acting executive dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa, UNISA) jointly guest-edited a special issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE), entitled “Lifelong literacy: Towards a new agenda”. More...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication on successful family literacy and learning programmes titled “Learning Families: Intergenerational Approaches to Literacy Teaching and Learning”. More...
Since the adoption of the Education for All (EFA) goals in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, the world has made progress in promoting basic education. However, the number of young people and adults lacking literacy and basic skills, estimated at 757 million, remains unacceptably high. More...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) joins the world in marking the 2015 International Literacy Day by launching a new publication, Transforming Our World: Literacy for Sustainable Development, which shares effective practices in literacy and numeracy. More...
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