News and events listings for the UNESCO Chair and the UNESCO Centre, along with our researcher's blog posts, can be found on our blog at
http://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/unesco
1 May 2012, 2:50pm
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27 April 2012, 2:24pm
Marina Monteith, Policy Analyst with the Children and Youth Programme at the UNESCO Centre, writes on her research for the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People on Welfare Reform and the consequences for children in Northern Ireland.(read more)
23 April 2012, 12:19pm
Senior researchers from the UNESCO Centre at the University of Ulster have travelled to Puerto Rico this week to present papers at the 56th Annual Conference of the Comparitive and International Education Society (CIES).(read more)
23 March 2012, 2:23pm
An introduction to the Children and Youth Programme from UNESCO Chairs from Professor Alan Smith and Professor Pat Dolan.(read more)
21 March 2012, 12:43pm
Ireland’s two UNESCO Chair holders have come together to launch a joint Commentary on the proposed referendum on the rights of the child in Ireland. The Commentary, ‘Children’s Rights and the Family’, forms a major part of the work of the Children and Youth Programme, and we hope that it will provide an independent academic research basis for the forthcoming debate.(read more)