Mobile technology can advance literacy and learning in underserved communities around the world. Summary Millions of people do not read for one reason: they do not have access to text. But today mobile phones and cellular networks are transforming a scarce resource into an abundant one. Drawing on the analysis of over 4,000 surveys collected...

Overview: With the deadline for the Education for All goals less than two years away, it is clear that, despite advances over the past decade, not a single goal will be achieved globally by 2015. This year’s EFA Global Monitoring Report vividly underlines the fact that people in the most marginalized groups have continued to...

This report explores diverse pathways to development through the culture and creative industries and analyses the ways in which they can be strengthened and widened to achieve the expected results of inclusive social and economic development.

This report begins by looking at the number of children who are out of school, some of whom have attended school at some point. It then presents the structure of national systems of compulsory education in order to identify the trajectories by which pupils progress – or not – through the education system. When are...

This UNESCO report looks into the damaging effects of climate change on Indigenous cultures.