Cork 'has capacity to deliver' as delegates arrive for global education conference

Close to 700 delegates from over 95 countries are attending a three-day Learning Cities conference in Cork organised by UNESCO and previously held in Beijing and Mexico city, writes Olivia Kelleher.

Mr Kabit Shaikh, director UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, said that Cork has a "thread of learning" in everything it does and that is why the city was chosen as the first Learning Cities conference destination outside of Europe.