Publications

The UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok), in partnership with the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) and the Ministry of Education of Thailand, will...

Teachers are the most important actors in improving students’ learning outcomes and thus in addressing a learning crisis in the region. Moreover, the unprecedented and extensive school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have affected about 43 million...

School violence refers to physical, psychological, and sexual violence that takes place in school, on the way to school, online, and wherever school relationships exist. Some forms of school violence may be explicitly or implicitly gender-based. School...

On 27 April 2022, the first-ever Information and Communication Technologies Competency Standards for Teachers (ICT-CST) in Lao PDR were launched at the “National Dissemination Workshop on ICT-CST and the ICT-CST-Integrated Curricula in Pre-service Teacher...

The report describes the findings of a study of Lao PDR’s teacher-related legislative documents, including laws, decrees, agreements and strategies. The study examined these legal documents and identified achievements, strengths, challenges and gaps, with...

The Teacher Policy Development Guide and its Summary were developed by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, also known as the Teacher Task Force (TTF), in close coordination with its external partners and UNESCO entities. The Guide...

UNESCO Jakarta published the training material ‘Climate Change Education for Asia Pacific Small Island Developing States.” Developed under a project funded by the Government of Malaysia, the publication aims to enhance the capacity of teachers at all...

Teachers are at the centre of quality higher education systems. This understanding is part of the international community’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals introduced in September 2015. Goal four is known as SDG4 - Education 2030 which aims to ensure...

The changes brought about by globalization and diversification of societies, have intensified the need to raise the level of efforts to foster transversal competencies (or 21st century), and the new role of teachers is seen as critical to developing them...