Literacy and Lifelong Learning
© Somenath Mukhopadhaya,India
Illiteracy in youth and adulthood is the price people and countries pay for past failures of education systems. Despite steady progress, as of 2010 there are a total of 796 million adult illiterates in the world.While gender parity is improving, women and other disadvantaged groups are still being denied their light to literacy. About 72 million children do not have a chance to attend school.
In the Asia and Pacific region, there are 518 million adult illiterates accounting for 65.7 per cent of the world's illiterate population. » Read more
News & Events
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01.02.12:
Launch of Global LIFE Mid-term Evaluation Report 2006-2011: Looking Forward with LIFE
The global mid-term evaluation report on UNESCO’s Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015), produced by UIL on the basis of national and regional...
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30.11.11:
UNESCO to raise funds for flooded Community Learning Centres in Ayutthaya
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08.11.11:
PNG Literacy Rate Still A Mystery - ‘Over 2 million people print illiterate’
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19.10.11:
The power of education - Lone teacher empowers destitute community with minimal resources
Latest Publications
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Literacy initiative for empowerment (LIFE) 2010 - Regional mid-term evaluation: Summary Report
According to the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, in 2008 there were about 796 million illiterate adults worldwide, more than half of them living in South...
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Creating and sustaining literate environments
Worldwide, one in five adults are not literate, and millions of children leave school without acquiring the basic literacy and numeracy skills. This situation...
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Sustainability of community learning centres: Community ownership and support - Asia-Pacific Regional Action Research Studies
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