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Ten cities with outstanding achievements in the implementation of UNESCO’s learning city strategies will receive the UNESCO Learning Cities Award 2021 on 27 October 2021, the first day of the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities, in Yeonsu...

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed international higher education. Online and blended learning are necessary vehicles for ensuring equitable access to quality higher education for all. Recognition authorities in Asia and the Pacific are...

At least 27 million students in the region were not able to attend any in-school education since the beginning of the pandemic. BANGKOK/KATHMANDU, 19 October 2021 — The education of more than 800 million children – 400 million in South Asia, 260 million in...

This International Day of the Girl Child, it is important to share some good news to break through the bad. Over the past 25 years, there has been an increase in girls’ primary completion rates of 20 percentage points. Globally, 87% of girls are now...

New Delhi, 12 October 2021 –To build back better from the ongoing pandemic, health and education ministers of countries in WHO South-East Asia Region, and heads of UN agencies today committed to Health Promoting Schools for healthier generations and...

New UNESCO-UNICEF report reveals a learning crisis that is leaving the most disadvantaged learners behind Bangkok/Kathmandu, 29 September 2021 – Despite important progress in the Asia-Pacific, most countries in the region are off-track to achieve...

On 18 August 2021, UNESCO Bangkok in collaboration with Lenovo Thailand and Equitable Education Fund (EEF) announced the donation of 50 Lenovo tablets to the Learning Coin project, which promotes equitable access to quality education by cultivating good...

UNESCO Bangkok launched the TechCul Initiative to develop digital solutions and business models to address the existing challenges faced by the culture and creative sector across the Asia-Pacific region. A total of 443 participants from 34 countries...

Plastic pollution is an increasingly severe environmental crisis in the region and the world. Last month in Thailand, the country watched as the young dugong “Marium” died despite veterinary care, just the latest marine mammal whose death is linked to...

“A door opens for Mongolian citizens to improve their professional skills, and continue their studies and work.” – Yo.Baatarbileg, Mongolia’s Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Sport Mongolia joined the Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the...

Kris Sanguanpiyapand’s TEDxBangkok talk was itself performance art, relating in the context of a Peter Pan skit how he had overcome multiple hurdles to found Blind Theatre Thailand, encouraging cultural projects featuring blind and sighted people working...

To promote sustainable development at heritage sites in Thailand, notably through sustainable tourism, UNESCO and DASTA are entering a new era of cooperation, with the signing of a MOU covering 2019-2022. The event took place at 10am on 28 January 2019 at...

NADI, 22 November, 2018 – This week, more than 30 Ministry and teacher training participants from 12 countries in the Pacific are meeting in Fiji to review the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Teacher Competency Framework for the Pacific, draft...