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A recent interview published by ELM Magazine features Alex Stevenson, Chair of the European Basic Skills Network, reflecting on England’s latest PIAAC results and warning that adults with low basic skills are still being left behind. The interview...
A new blog post on ELINET by Aoife Crawford (Research and Policy Officer, National Adult Literacy Agency – NALA, Ireland) explores a crucial question: whose literacy needs remain unmet - and why? The article starts from a striking figure: in Ireland, one in five...
EBSN was invited to nominate a representative for an expert meeting to input into the UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy (2020-2025). After producing a draft outline strategy for an earlier on-line forum consultation, UNESCO brought together participants...
To celebrate the International Literacy Day, the EBSN EPALE team welcomes you to join us on EPALE in our Speakers’ Corner on Literacy! The multilingual event will take place on Friday, September 7th, from 10.00 (CET) to 17:00 (CET) and it will be moderated by the...
NALA from Ireland elaborated guidelines for good adult literacy work defining the 5 most important principles of quality work in adult literacy. 1. Adult literacy work is based on a philosophy of adult education which is concerned with personal development and social...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Abuja, has published a guidebook on how action research can enhance youth and adult literacy education and learning. This guidebook can...
The French National and European Conference on Illiteracy was held in Lyon in November 2013. Organised by ANLCI, an EBSN member, in partnership with the 67 supporters of the Grande Cause Nationale 2013 and the Europe-Education-Formation France (2e2f) Agency, this...
Reading for Pleasure and Reading Circles for Adult Emergent Readers Insights in Adult Learning Sam Duncan February 2014 RRP £7.95 (print and e-book) 80 pages Details at: http://bitly.com/1bcSYKa About this publication Adult literacy provision has become more...
On March 1st this year, a group of 66 French stakeholders in our field, led by our French EBSN member, the ANLCI, obtained from the French Prime minister the Label Grande Cause Nationale. The label “grande cause nationale” is given each year to a different cause...
The IVQ survey focuses (at national or regional level) on representative samples of the general French population, and among other goals tries to identify the proportion of people with low literacy levels among the overall population. In the paper “IVQ: more than a...