The Global Learning Portal facilitates development and education initiatives by linking online educators, international development practioners, ministries and civil society organizations. Educators in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Zambia and Latin America are connecting via GLP. Learn more about us.

GLP Training in Afghanistan
GLP staff trained 157 professors at the faculty of educations in Herat, Kunduz, Faryab, Balkh and Kabul in Afghanistan from October - November 2008 to use the Afghanistan Higher Education Portal. Professors participated in a discussion on curriculum and uploaded materials to the library. A new page has been added to the HEP Portal for the Training and Professional Development (TPD)component. TPD offers a course, Designing an Integrated University Course (DIUC), and it uses the portal by having faculty upload their papers to the library for teachers to share their work with their colleagues.

•In collaboration with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the Volvo Adventure Award rewards young people, ages 13-16, who run their own environmental projects. The deadline to register projects is 31 January 2009.

• The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) - Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is to be held in Bonn, Germany from 31 March to 2 April 2009.

•The World Conference on Higher Education with the theme “The New Dynamics of higher education” is to be held in UNESCO Paris from 6 July to 8 July 2009. This conference will bring together the key stakeholders to forge a new commitment to the development of higher education and to take stock of the changes in higher education since last conference in 1998.

UNESCO: Global Education Digest 2008

UNESCO recently published the Global Education Digest 2008 , the world's most comprehensive education data collection. You can find the answers to such questions as: How many children are out of school? What proportion of children complete primary school? Who pays for education?

The report is complemented by an interactive database containing additional indicators, updated regularly.

Human Rights Day: 10 December

Human Rights Day celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 2008. Read about news, events and projects in Know Your Rights 2008 site and more information about human rights from the UN Office of Commissioner for Human Rights.

UNICEF has asked directors around the world since 1998 to make a 30-second animated films illustrating one of the rights spelled out in the Convention of the Rights of the Child. Over 70 studios in 32 countries have created cartoons for this project.

Take the quiz or the children's version to test your knowledge of human rights.

World AIDS Day "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise":
1st December

World AIDS Day 2008 is coordinated around the theme of Leadership and the slogan "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise." This highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through.

World AIDS Day info: For youth materials, World's AIDS Day resources, events calender and more, visit World Aids Campaign .

Practical Resources: Read Overviews of Practical Resources published by EDUCAIDS that provides technical staff, programme implementers, ministries and civil society organizations with an analysis of useful published resources on essential components of a comprehensive education sector response to HIV and AIDS.

Youth and HIV and AIDS: The Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDs has global network of 4,000 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide.

Test your knowledge: Take the AVERT AIDS Challenge Game to test your knowledge of HIV and AIDS.

Virtual Library: the UNESCO HIV and AIDS Education Clearinghouse which provides access of over 4,000 documents on the development of effective HIV and AIDS policies, programmes and advocacy, particularly within the education sector.

What would you do?: Play What would do?" a game about the loves and relationships of four teenagers. You make the decision that determines what happens about them.

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