Latest Press Releases
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05.07.16:
High-Level Policy Forum to Target Innovative, Inclusive Early Childhood Care and Education in Asia-Pacific
BANGKOK, 5 JULY, 2016
WHAT: Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Forum on Early Childhood Care and Education: The Transformative Power of Early Childhood:...
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07.05.16:
Involve, Innovate, Empower, Include: UNESCO/Changwon Conference on ICTs for Community Learning Centres
More than 20 countries join regional education conference to explore integrating ICT and online technology into community learning centres across Asia-Pacific
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25.03.16:
Press Release: 'Happy Schools': UNESCO report offers first-ever framework on promoting learner well-being and happiness
BANGKOK, 25 MARCH, 2016 – The joy of learning is too often absent in Asia-Pacific schools due to an over-emphasis on tests and rote learning in heavily...
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16.03.16:
MEDIA ADVISORY: What makes a happy school? UNESCO to launch first framework for learner well-being in the Asia-Pacific
Art Exhibition and Report Launch to showcase what a happy school means to people across the Asia-Pacific region.
BANGKOK, 16 MARCH, 2016 – Following the...
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24.02.16:
Asia Education Summit on Flexible Learning Strategies for Out-of-School Children Opens: 22 Countries Gather to Include, Innovate, Impact
BANGKOK, 24 FEBRUARY – More than 550 development workers, government officials, education practitioners and private sector representatives from 22 countries...
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18.01.16:
UNESCO champions use of international standards in Thailand’s media reform plans with launch of Media Development Indicators
BANGKOK, 18 JANUARY, 2016 – Thailand’s media landscape is one of the most vibrant and diverse in Southeast Asia, but it is also limited by several factors,...
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10.12.15:
On Human Rights Day, #PurpleMySchool campaign reflects on safer learning spaces created for LGBTI learners across Asia-Pacific
Thousands reached at all levels of the education sector and in communities throughout region in UNESCO and UNDP-initiated campaign that concludes...
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04.12.15:
MEDIA ADVISORY: Improved Safeguarding for Cultural Heritage Threatened by Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters Aim of Regional Conference
UNESCO, ThinkCity and cultural preservation and disaster risk reduction experts from throughout Asia-Pacific to meet to harmonize actions to protect region’s...
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24.11.15:
MEDIA ADVISORY: APMED2030 to Develop Roadmap for Implementation of Education 2030 in Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific Meeting on Education 2030 to mark first step in coordinating regional action toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 on ‘inclusive and equitable’...
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24.11.15:
UNESCO, Microsoft, True Corp and Thailand’s Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education launch ICT education project to empower learners at Thai-Myanmar border
BANGKOK, 24 NOVEMBER 2015 – Thousands of disadvantaged young learners along the Thai-Myanmar border will benefit from increased learning opportunities and a...