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23 April

• Sharp drop in aid to basic education jeopardizes school chances for millions
  A sharp decline in aid to basic education to developing countries threatens to reverse progress towards the international goal of universal primary schooling. This is the stark conclusion drawn by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team.

16 April

• [italiano] L'Università della Montagna incontra il Ministro dell'istruzione
  Sabato 11 aprile 2009 sarà una giornata molto importante per la tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio montano. Il Ministro dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, On. Mariastella Gelmini, infatti, incontrerà i rappresentanti dell’Università della Montagna, in occasione dell’inaugurazione dell’attività didattica del nuovo Centro Studi per la Gestione Sostenibile e la Difesa della Montagna (Ge.S.Di.Mont.) e del Corso di Laurea triennale in Valorizzazione e Tutela dell’Ambiente e del Territorio Montano con sede a Edolo (BS).

15 April

• Director-General signs agreement establishing the Institute for African Culture and International Understanding in Nigeria
  On 8 April 2009 the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura and His Excellency Mr Bello Jibril Gada, Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria signed an Agreement establishing the Institute for African Culture and International Understanding in Abeokuta as a Category 2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO.

• Counting culture
  By Malisa Santigul, UNESCO Bangkok
  Food, dance, music, traditional knowledge, performance, films, tourism, advertising, books, architecture, software, photography, even blank CDs… The list of cultural domains is extensive. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and UNESCO Bangkok’s aim to capture tangible and intangible heritage into quantifiable means is undoubtedly a challenging feat to accomplish, but not entirely impossible. Read more at UNESCO Bangkok Newsletter Nº 18 - page 17

• Coupons can buy knowledge and change lives - UNESCO Coupons Programme
  The Coupons Programme contributes to UNESCO's efforts to promote education. This Programme was designed to provide assistance to countries with non-convertible currency or suffering from a shortage of convertible currencies to purchase educational and scientific materials from abroad and to pay school and university tuition fees and subscriptions to educational, scientific or cultural institutions throughout the world.