Education

5th UNESCO-APEID Meeting on Entrepreneurship Education: Transforming Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Businesses and Job Generation 26-29 September 2016, Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia Organized by UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , Bangk...More

Despite unprecedented progress in expanding access to education, gender equality in education remains out of reach. More girls are in school today than ever before but socio-economic factors and gender-based discrimination prevent them from equal opportuni...More

Designing a Relevant and Innovative Entrepreneurship Education: Towards Mutual Recognition of Qualifications in ASEAN, East and South Asia October 23-25, 2017, Manila, The Philippines Co-organized by UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, B...More

The Brookings Institution and the Global Partnership Education (GPE) will collaborate with the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) at UNESCO Bangkok to explore the implications of the 21st century skills agenda for assessment. This will be a continuation of UNESCO Bangkok’s previous research in the area of 21st century skills or transversal competencies, the findings and recommendations of which was shared at the annual research and policy symposium hosted by the Brookings Institution in early April 2017.More

Background The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 United Nation Member States in September 2015 have been driving global efforts to address urgent challenges facing the world today. There...More