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Boeren, Ellen, Ed.; Field, John, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2019
The Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the state of adult learning and education (ALE) around the world. The "4th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education" ("GRALE 4") monitors the extent to which UNESCO Member States put their international commitments…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Governance, Educational Finance
Hill, Christopher; Lamie, Judith; Gore, Tim – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2021
This book examines issues of identity; positionality; community; value and relevance, to explore where transnational higher education is headed and what form it may take moving forwards. Transnational higher education has traditionally been viewed through the lens of access. Now, the authors argue, higher education must think more closely about…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Trend Analysis, Self Concept, Higher Education
Fitzpatrick, Rachael; Korin, Astrid; Riggall, Anna – Education Development Trust, 2020
This report is based on a rapid survey of recently published materials, guidance documents and media commentary. It summarises what is known and understood about the impacts of the prolonged school closures that followed the spread of COVID-19 and the context of school reopening and plans for learning recovery. In March 2020, schools around the…
Descriptors: School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
Salmon, Aliénor – UNESCO Bangkok, 2016
The schooling experience is perhaps the most influential of endeavours in terms of shaping the course of student lives. Schools that can promote happiness, referred to in this report as 'happy schools', are key to ensuring better well-being, health, and achievement as well as success in future life and work. Education systems must value the unique…
Descriptors: Well Being, Educational Environment, Multiple Intelligences, Student Diversity
Streitwieser, Bernhard, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2014
Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges, and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education who share their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Comparative Education
Bunning, Frank, Ed.; Zhao, Zhi-Qun, Ed. – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2006
The UNESCO International Meeting on Innovation and Excellence in TVET Teacher Education took place in Hangzhou/China in November 2004. The main aim of this conference was to establish a platform for discussion about improving the quality of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The focal point was the development and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Sustainable Development
Ross, Kenneth N. – Prospects, 1990
Explores implications for national and international action of several educational research studies on the linkages between poverty and limited educational opportunities. Suggests that valuable information is available in rarely read research reports. Describes different research studies on positive discrimination programs for poor schools,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific, 1986
This bibliography of approximately 1,850 published and unpublished materials concerning all aspects of education in Asian and Pacific countries updates a 1979 bibliography by the same organization. Types of materials listed include conference papers, research reports, books, statistical compilations, government/international organization…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development
Alto, Romulita; Isaacs, Irene; Knight, Brian; Polestico, Rebecca – 2000
This book provides an overview of vocational-technical education and training (VTET) in the 10 member countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SAMEO). The book begins with an introduction explaining the objectives and methodology of the cooperative research project on which the study was based. Each of the 10…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies