• Documentation and Information Service

UNESCO’s continued efforts to enhance the impact and improve the visibility of its action in education through the development of dissemination networks and the increased use of new information technologies. UNESCO’s Education Website http://www.unesco.org/education offers specific information on educational programme activities: events, key statistics, standard-setting texts, specialized bibliographies, historical data, publications and periodicals. It is to be noted that approximately 70 per cent of enquiries are from users in the Europe region. Within the framework of the UNESCO Website, the four Institutes located in the Europe region have also created their own homepages which can be consulted at the following addresses: the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva, http://www.ibe.unesco.org, the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris, http://www.unesco.org/iiep, the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) in Hamburg, http://www.unesco.org/education/uie and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in Moscow, http://www.iite.ru.

107. More than 500 copies of the trilingual CD-ROM Selected UNESCO Documents in Education containing the full text of about 200 documents, and 800 copies of the Multimedia kit UNESCO – 50 Years for Education (a 288-page book and two CD-ROMs) retracing through a selected collection of texts, films, videos and sound recordings UNESCO’s action in the field of education since 1946, were distributed to key European educational institutions. A CD-ROM intended for pre-primary and primary-school teachers on the theme of citizenship education will be issued in 2000. The brochure UNESCO and Education, produced in English and French, presenting the Education Sector’s programmes and activities; the Catalogue of documents of the Education Sector; the ‘Catalogue of videos’ and the main documents published during 1998-2000 were distributed to Ministries of Education, National Commissions, Permanent Delegations, Universities, IGOs, NGOs and other educational institutions in the Europe region. Over 60,000 documents (including CD-ROMs) were sent out over the last two years to a wide range of users (teachers, students, researchers and various categories of public and private institutions).

• World Education Report

108. The World Education Report has established itself as a global reference concerning educational trends and issues. The fourth edition ‘Teachers and Teaching in a Changing World’, was published in 1998, and the fifth edition World Education Report 2000 on the theme, ‘The right to education’: towards education for all throughout life’, was issued in April 2000. As part of the preparation of the Report, an international colloquium on the theme ‘The right to education: towards new educational contents for the 21st century’, was organized at the Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques, Sèvres, France (1-3 July 1999), in co-operation with the French National Commission for UNESCO, and a round-table ‘The Role of Measurement and Evaluation in Education Policy’ was organized in Princeton, USA in June 1998, in co-operation with the International Association for Educational Assessment.