Adult Learning and Education: Widening the Scope for Action 📍 University of Hamburg, Germany 🕓 13–15 May 2026 The University of Hamburg and the ESREA Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education invite contributions for the 2026 conference “Adult Learning and...
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On September 2015 a challenging and thought-provoking conference was organised by NIACE as the UK National Coordinator for the European Agenda for Adult Learning. The conference "Realising Impact: Making a difference through adult learning" focused especially on...
Action research to improve youth and adult literacy – Empowering learners in a multilingual world
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...
IVQ (Information and Everyday Life): more than a national survey
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...