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Afghanistan
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Country Profiles aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide.This country profile provides information and key statistics on vocational training in Afghanistan and their formal education system. Furthermore, a national qualfications framework [...]

Palestinian Territories
The project "LifeLong Learning in Palestine" is a Tempus Project of the European Commission under the lead of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow with partner institutions in England, Malta and Palestine. The website offers a lot of fulltext documents and videos not only on lifelong learning but also on other educational topics in Palestine (e.g. civil [...]

Cameroon
The Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC) is a non-governmental, not for profit organization. Since its inception in 2002, the organization has been working with children/youths, parents, government bodies and intergovernmental bodies in the promotion of community welfare. It works to identify the needs of the child, especially the rural [...]

Turkey
The website offers data tables on formal education, non-formal education and education expenditures. Some of the publications are available as full texts.

Latvia
Latvian Adult Education Association (LAEA) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation which unites adult education providers in Latvia – both individuals and organisations. LAEA was founded on December 14, 1993 with support from Latvia's Ministry of Education and Science and the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association. The aim [...]

Estonia
The Estonian Non-formal Adult Education Association (ENAEA) is a non-governmental, national umbrella organisation in the non-formal adult education field associating education-orientated NGOs (69 member organisations in 2007). The mission of the Estonian Non-formal Adult Education Association as a civic association and nation-wide organization connecting educationally [...]

Yemen; Sudan; Suriname; Zambia; Eswatini; Eswatini; Zimbabwe; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; San Marino; Sao Tome and Principe; Tunisia; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; Senegal; Turkmenistan; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; Serbia; Seychelles; Uganda; Sierre Leone; Ukraine; Singapore; United Arab Emirates; Slovakia; United Kingdom; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; United States of America (USA); Somalia; Uruguay; Virgin Islands of the United States; South Africa, Republic; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Vatican City; Korea, Republic of (South Korea); Venezuela; Spain; Vietnam; Western Sahara; Sri Lanka; Caribbean
The site of the US American Directory of State Universities offers an online encyclopedia on education. The chapter "Global Education References" delivers statistical data and texts on education systems in different countries.

Belgium
This site offers a database for practical further training courses in Belgium. You can search for examples of training and vocational programmes, continuing education and language courses, as well as companies or educational institutions. Additionally, in the sector "bibliothèque", there are selected literary abstracts available.

Denmark
The Danish Adult Education Association is an organisation which promotes nonformal adult education through collaboration, information and development. DAEA represents 32 member organisations. Adult education in Denmark consists of a broad variety of programmes and institutions, both in the formal and in informal sector. Most of them are partly financed by the state or the [...]

Denmark
The first Folk High School was founded in Rødding, Denmark, in 1844, on the initiative of Kristen Kold who was inspired by the educational thinking of N.F.S. Grundtvig. Grundtvig identified a growing democratic need in society of enlightening the often both uneducated and poor peasantry. This social group had neither the time nor the money to enroll at a university and needed [...]

Thailand
Office of the Non-Formal Education Commission (ONFEC), one of the administrative units under the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education has been established since July 7, 2003 as the consequence of the education reform process. The main tasks of ONFEC are to provide and support the services of nonformal and informal education to promote lifelong learning [...]

international
In July 2006 the former UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) founded in Hamburg in 1951-52 has changed its name and is now the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). The previous name was too unspecific and did not accurately reflect the Institute's long-standing focus on adult learning as well as out-of-school and non-formal education in the perspective of lifelong [...]

Russian Federation
The website comprises according to its own statement "all facets of the Russian education system". Among the organizers of the Russian Education Forum one can find also the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Focal point of the homepage is the 10th International Specialised Exhibition of educational institutions in preschool, middle school and [...]

Russian Federation
This full text provides an analysis of environmental education in Russian schools during the past 10 years. It identifies at least 5 trends: "school ( theoretical) ecology", "technical (industrial) ecology", "socio-political ecology", "playing ecology", 'field ecology". In the 1930s the naturalistic approach in the USSR was changed into a "socialist" one.

Russian Federation
The worldwide in the field of computer technology operating Intel Corporation (headquarters in the U.S.A.) presents itself as innovator and initiator of activities in the education system of the Russian Federation. Several links provide information about the areas and levels of Intel engagement and the educational programmes which are supported by the enterprise.

Malta
Young Enterprise Malta is a non-profit organisation in the field of enterprise education and economic development. It improves young people's understanding of business, economics, and entrepreneurship through a partnership between local business and education communities. With a learning-by-doing experience it provides groups of pupils over a full academic year with the [...]

Malta
The FES is conceived as a mechanism that enables the Education Division at the Ministry of Education to provide, among others, a range of innovative educational initiatives in the field of literacy support. It develops and manages educational programmes: the Hilti Programme ( family literacy clubs, named Hilti Clubs, are aimed at students in the early primary years and their [...]

Bahrain
The self-description of this web site says: Brief information about each level of pre-university formal education, its systems, curriculum, examination ...etc., as well as non-formal education, higher education, private education, and special education. It also includes the study plans for all levels of government schools, and other information concerned with the school year, [...]

Africa
ADEA has sponsored research involving the discovery of present and potential dynamics of the new generation of non-formal education activities emerging in Africa. More specifically, researchers have examined in relation to non-formal education: the activities sponsored by new actors, new relationships to formal education, and new needs for local direction of socio-economic [...]

United Kingdom
A site devoted to the field of informal education. Informal education can be understood "as the lifelong process in which people learn from everyday experience" and which takes place outside institutions, organisations or community groups. The site contains numerous materials and texts on the subject.