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Case Study on Finnish TVET: A Resilient Model of Training During COVID-19 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Omnia Education Partnerships | UNESCO This case study examines how technical and vocational education and training (TVET) was organized during the state of emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. The disruption accentuated the importance of flexibility within the education system to make it resilient. Finnish TVET, created as a hybrid solution combining school-based, work-based and online-based learning environments, remained responsive and functional throughout the difficult time in spring 2020.To urgently improve the resilience of education, this case study emphasizes the necessity to improve system-level flexibilities across all levels and all types of TVET, including alternative modes of delivery and hybrid learning opportunities, as the one size fits all approach increases rigidity and redundancy of education and training. Flexible measures are key to improve resilience, also beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Second Annual Meeting of the Global Citizenship Education Actors’ Platform: Meeting Report Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: APCEIU This meeting report provides readers with an overview of discussion points during the “Second Annual Meeting of the GCED Actors’ Platform” held on 19 November 2020. The Meeting was aimed at: Reviewing and updating the status of regional priorities and progress for GCED in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sharing initiatives and on-going projects undertaken at the regional level, especially in the field of GCED Research. Discussing future directions of the global and inter-regional GCED partnership. 
Delivering Education at Home in African Member States Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Country Status Report Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Since its emergence in late 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has evolved into a pandemic, heavily affecting the lives of billions of people across the world with an anticipated huge impact on the global economy and Africa in particular. Education is one of the sectors heavily affected, with the closure of learning institutions in many African countries likely to negatively affect the education quality.In order to obtain a clearer view of the status of learning during this period, and to better support countries in the immediate, short and long term, ADEA engaged some of the most affected African countries in March 2020 to map the national situation in the education sector. The foregoing is a synopsis of the feedback from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia in terms of national strategies, platforms and tools or applications, gaps and challenges, partner engagement, good practices and lessons learnt with some recommendations. 
UNESCO COVID-19 Education Response: Open and Distance Learning to Support Youth and Adult Learning (Education Sector Issue Note; No. 2.5 – June 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) A new UNESCO issue note, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), aims to support education policy-makers and planners in ensuring open and distance learning to support youth and adult learning in the context of the current pandemic, now and in its aftermath.Since the COVID-19 outbreak and the worldwide school closures that followed, ministries of education have endeavoured to ensure continuity of learning and encourage schools and educational institutions to explore and utilize online and distance modes of learning. Unfortunately, learners outside of the formal school system who are already in need of urgent learning support, such as low-skilled adults, women, out-of-school youth, migrants and refugees, and persons with disabilities, have suffered disproportionally from the suspension of face-to-face learning at the majority of adult learning centres and non-formal educational institutions.The current pandemic calls for people from people from all socio-economic backgrounds, wherever they live in the world, to develop new knowledge and skills in order to cope with the uncertainty that this crisis imposes. These learning needs include basic health literacy, media literacy, parenting for home-schooling children and professional development to counteract job losses brought on by the pandemic. Correspondingly, enrolment in massive open online courses (MOOCs) is soaring. As such, there have been positive and demand-driven trends in exploring alternative options, such as open and distance learning (ODL), to ensure the continuity and expansion of non-formal education and adult learning.This issue note takes stock of opportunities and challenges in using ODL, both online and offline as defined in the UNESCO Issue Note on Distance Learning Strategies, for youth and adult learners outside the formal education system. After examining key issues and illustrating promising cases from public and private sectors, it provides key messages for policy interventions to support inclusive lifelong learning for youth and adults during and after the current pandemic.UNESCO Education Sector’s issue notes cover key topics related to the COVID-19 education response. 
Uzbekistan Expresses Concerns about School Bullying Year of publication: 2018 Author: Дарина Солод Corporate author: Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) Psychologists will appear in secondary schools in Uzbekistan. The author asks if they will be able to influence the solution of this complex social problem among children. 
Combating Domestic Violence in Kyrgyzstan: Are Victims Protected? Year of publication: 2020 Author: Анна Зубенко Corporate author: Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) The reform of the judicial system, thanks to which a number of new codes appeared in Kyrgyzstan, was aimed primarily at the humanization of legislation and the decriminalization of certain types of crimes. Domestic violence, in the framework of changing the legislation, on the contrary, was criminalized - it was included in the Code of Misconduct, which is part of the criminal law. But the de facto prosecution of perpetrators has become more difficult. 
Advantages and Risks of Introducing the “Multilingual and Multicultural Education” Program in Kyrgyzstan Year of publication: 2019 Author: Kanzada Zayirbekova Corporate author: Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) According to the author, multilingual education makes it possible to simultaneously master the state, official and one of the foreign languages, and also creates cohesion in society and enhances the culture of interethnic communication, and all this strengthens interethnic relations. 
Lifelong Education: Continuous Education for Sustainable Development; The Collection of the 15th International Conference Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: National Academy for Education (NAE) This edition of the proceedings of international cooperation presents the reports of the participants of the first stage of the 15th (anniversary) international conference “Education Throughout Life: Continuing Education for Sustainable Development”, which was held in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan. The conference participants focused on the issues of training competent specialists, models, methods, technologies and organizational forms of continuing education used in pedagogical practice. The authors paid special attention to new pedagogical and organizational strategies for continuing education of adults, people with disabilities and the "third age", as well as spiritual, moral, ethical and democratic values in the context of upbringing in continuing education. 
Media and Information Literacy in the Digital Age: How to Teach the Teachers Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) This publication includes articles reflecting some trends in the development of the digital media environment, approaches to the formation of media and information literacy (MIL), practices describing the experience of implementing MIL training for teachers and students of various levels and forms of education. The publication also contains recommendations aimed to integrate MIL into teacher education and professional development. 
Futures of Education: learning to become - Report on the future of education in the Arab region - Building the future 2020-2050 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) A report that monitors the most important results of the regional and national consultations in the Arab region, which were conducted by the Arab Campaign for Education for All - IKEA and its partners and members in the Arab educational coalitions on the future of education. It comes as part of their contribution to the global Future of Education initiative launched by UNESCO.