UIL Lifelong Learning Alert #9

Asia and the Pacific

The Express Tribune

Can female inclusiveness in education turn tables?

If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation. Clichéd but true, educating a woman does play a significant role in developing a society. It enforces a multiplier effect as she is largely responsible for managing the household and directly responsible for children’s development.

haitilibre.com

Haiti - Education : Non-Formal Education Policy Outreach Tour

More than a month after the adoption of the document Non-Formal Education Policy, the members of the Working Group on Non-Formal Education of the "Ad hoc" Monitoring Committee and senior staff the Directorate General and several technical directorates are on a tour of popularization it in the various Departmental Directorates of Education (DDE) of the country, with educational agents and partners in the field.

dailytrust.com.ng

Edo uses adult education to fight human trafficking

As part of measures to improve literacy among the citizenry, especially women, the Edo State Government has started resuscitating its adult and non-formal education classes across its 18 local government areas. The essence is to encourage those who did not attend or finish school, as well as the unskilled to further their education and obtain certificates free of charge.

Cisco

Country Digital Readiness: Research to Determine a Country’s Digital Readiness and Key Interventions

Technology can transform businesses and lives and drive global innovation. Digitization will enable countries to maintain global competitiveness, increase GDP, foster innovation, and create new jobs. How can educators best prepare the future workforce to take advantage of the rapid pace of technological change?

Egypt Today

Media Literacy, SGDs to highlight 7th edition of Alexandria Media Forum

The way towards the future begins with self-development for individuals and centres around lifelong learning, asserted expert speakers at the third annual Public Administration Forum, held in Dubai, under the theme “Capacity Building for Future Readiness”.