China's lifelong learning efforts lauded at meeting

UNESCO officials have praised China's initiatives in promoting lifelong learning and are ramping up joint efforts with a Shanghai university to cultivate teachers as lifelong learners, particularly in light of a worldwide shortage of teaching professionals.

During a workshop at Shanghai Normal University on Wednesday, the university unveiled its new Research Institute for Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development, a move to deepen research on teachers' lifelong learning and further enhance international cooperation and exchanges on promoting global teacher professional development.

Co-organized by Shanghai Normal University and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, the three-day workshop is an important part of a collaborative project looking at international research, policy and practice on lifelong learning for teachers.