UNESCO-KEDI Annual Regional Policy Seminars
Since 1995, UNESCO Bangkok and the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) have had an active partnership to promote collaborative efforts to contribute to the educational development of the global community, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region..
As part of these efforts, since 1999, UNESCO-KEDI annual policy seminars have been organized, sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development through KEDI, with technical and financial co-sponsorship from UNESCO Bangkok.
UNESCO-KEDI annual seminars focus on education policy and reform issues that are high on the policy agenda in Asia-Pacific countries. The seminars bring together senior officials from Ministries of Education and researchers from Asian-Pacific countries for an exchange of information, knowledge and know-how regarding priority areas in education policy and reform.
Before 2000, themes of the seminars covered topics such as Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and international development assistance. Since 2002, the seminar had been devoted to themes related to the six EFA goals agreed upon by the international community at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) (EFA Goal 1) was the seminar theme in 2002, followed by life skills (EFA Goal 3) in 2003.
In 2004-2007, the seminars covered the following topics:
- Primary Education Management for Improvement of Basic Learning Ability (Seoul, Republic of Korea; 14-17 December 2004)
- Secondary School Teacher Development and Management: Challenges and Opportunities (Seoul, Republic of Korea; 13-16 December 2005)
- Financing National EFA Plan Implementation in Asian Countries: An Assessment (Bangkok, Thailand; 12-14 December 2006)
- Gender Challenges in Post Primary Education in East and Southeast Asia (Bangkok, Thailand; 13-15 November 2007)
For the past five seminars (2008-2013), the seminar themes focus on:
- Decentralization of Implementing Education Policies and Reforms (Seoul, Republic of Korea; 15-17 December 2008)
- Monitoring Student Learning Outcomes and School Performance: Towards Improving Quality of Learning and Reducing Disparities (Seoul, Republic of Korea; 12-15 July 2010)
- Towards Quality Learning for All in Asia and the Pacific (Seoul, Republic of Korea; 28-30 July 2011)
- Education Policy-Making in the Age of Migration in Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand; 10-12 July 2012)
- Education Development and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Shifting Dynamics, Increasing Collaboration (Bangkok, Thailand; 5-7 August 2013)
For 2014, the seminar is on:
- Teacher Effectiveness in Support of Quality Learning in the Asia-Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand; 30 July - 1 August 2014)
The 2015 seminar is:
- Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, the Data Revolution, and Education 2030 (Bangkok, Thailand; 26-28 November 2015)
