Education Articles

UNESCO Update: New Data Tools for SDG #4

In July, UNESCO announced that the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) had developed new online tools to assist local stakeholders, governments, educators, donors and civil society members in analyzing and measuring the  latest indicators of progress towards the SDGs specifically related to Education.

These tools include UNESCO’s “Quick Guide to Education Indicators for SDG 4,” designed to assist those gathering...

International Literacy Day 2018

International Literacy Day (ILD), celebrated annually on September 8, shines a spotlight on global literacy needs. This year’s theme is “Literacy and Skills Development.”

Despite progress made, literacy challenges persist and at the same time the demands for skills required for work evolve rapidly. This year ILD explores and highlights integrated approaches that simultaneously can support the development of literacy...

International Literacy Day - September 8, 2016

 
The 50^th anniversary of International Literacy Day (ILD) is being celebrated this year on September 8 with the motto  “Reading the Past, Writing the Future”.  The focus is on innovation; as “this is the first year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this context the vision of literacy is aligned with lifelong learning opportunities with special...

Education for Sustainable Development: UN NGO Conference in Korea

Tara Scott (AWC Central Scotland), member of the Education Team, traveled to Korea to attend the UN Department of Public Information NGO Conference 2016. This is Tara's report: 

Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Together

The 66^th UN DPI / NGO Conference

 Seeing oneself as a Global Citizen was at the heart of this conference. My understanding...

Bridging Cultures Workshop

FAWCO Education Team/AIWC Cologne

Bridging Cultures Workshop Between Cologne and Kisumu

The Bridging Cultures Workshop started with great enthusiasm, and consisted of four successful 45 minute actual Skype sessions. Having great IT specialists present at the IBA (Cologne, Germany) and the Aga Khan School (Kisumu, Kenya) certainly helped. A total of 13 students were involved in the whole workshop. We soon realized...