Education
Since its creation UNESCO has been a global leader in promoting education as a basic human right. Today UNESCO continues this tradition by addressing the world’s education needs at all levels of learning. This includes working with the international community to keep education high on the list of global development priorities, monitoring progress on education goals, fostering partnerships between Member States, schools, higher education institutions and civil society and strengthening the capacity of countries to offer quality education.
Read more about UNESCO’s work in the field of education by visiting UNESCO’s education homepage.
As a global leader in education research and provision, the UK has an important contribution to make towards UNESCO’s education goals. The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) brings together this expertise in support of education priorities, including Education for All, Education for Sustainable Development, School Linking and Literacy.
To support the delivery of key UNESCO programmes in the UK, the National Commission also manages the UK UNESCO Associated Schools programme and UNITWIN UNESCO Chairs Network in the UK.
Read more about our work in education by selecting from the below list of topics.
Pages in this section
- Education for All
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- Despite international efforts to date, over 75 million children don't go to school. We're working to uphold the global commitment to ensure quality basic education for all children, youths and adults
- Education for Sustainable Development
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- Education to enable people to develop the knowledge, values and skills to participate in decisions that will improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet of the future
- Literacy
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- Literacy is at the heart of basic Education for All, and essential for eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy.
- School Linking
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- The promotion of friendship, understanding and collaborations between nations is the foundation upon which UNESCO was built and exists. School linking supports these goals by enabling children to connect and communicate with peers in other cultures and countries and to engage in issues of global justice and development.
- UNESCO Associated Schools
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- Working to better prepare UK children and young people for the challenges of an increasingly complex and interdependent world
- UNITWIN UNESCO Chairs Programme
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- Advancing research, training and programme development in higher education by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation through the transfer of knowledge across borders
- Education Committee
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- Experts in primary, further and higher education, vocational training, and formal and informal education, brought together to lead the National Commission's work in education
