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Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged governments, teachers, students, and parents worldwide. In response to school closures, various distance-learning options – the majority of them online – were swiftly and widely implemented to ensure...

To accelerate the implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) in a decade of action to deliver the Goals and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNESCO is launching the new global network of education stakeholders: ESD...

Teachers are widely acknowledged as the most determinant factor for the quality of education. Worldwide school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have further deepened the public appreciation of the important and challenging work of teachers. After...

The UIS has added new administrative data from the UIS Survey of Formal Education and the UOE data collection for 128 countries worldwide. The new approach to data collection uses dynamic templates to produce 23 indicators on students, teachers, schools...

วันจันทร์ที่ 26 กันยายน 2565 -- นายกิตติพันธ์ พานสุวรรณ อธิบดีกรมศิลปากร เป็นประธานมอบใบประกาศนียบัตรให้ผู้สำเร็จการอบรม พร้อมกล่าวปิดการอบรมประกาศนียบัตร นักอนุรักษ์ ช่างอนุรักษ์ และผู้ควบคุมงานอนุรักษ์โบราณสถาน รุ่นที่ 2 ในการนี้ ดร. เฟง จิ่ง...

The first key initiative of HOP to be launched in early October aims to support Asia-Pacific indigenous youth in documenting and collecting traditional stories bearing themes of gender equality, peace-building, and sustainability in their local communities...

Organized jointly by the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), the 2022 UNESCO-KEDI Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar, ‘Learning Recovery: Saving a Generation of Learners’ aims to provide...

The SDG 4 monitoring framework has given the central responsibility of monitoring to Member States for tracking their country's progress towards achieving SDG 4. Member States are responsible for developing their monitoring systems, as well as developing...

UNESCO is convening a 30th anniversary celebration of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme at its headquarters in Paris from 3-4 November 2022. This anniversary conference will celebrate the accomplishments over the last three decades and advance authentic...

ปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (AI) และรัฐบาลอิเล็กทรอนิกส์บทบาทสำคัญในการช่วยให้เราเข้าถึงข้อมูลในโลกดิจิทัลได้ดีขึ้น การนำเทคโนโลยีดิจิทัล เข้ามาปรับใช้กับทุกภาคส่วนขององค์กรของงานบริการในภาครัฐ (Digital transformation of government services)...

Micro-credentials are by no means new, with many, such as short-term courses, having been offered by different providers for years. Most have centred around outreach and continuing professional development (CPD) for the training of skilled workers and...

Blog # 1: 16 September 2022 by Learning and Education2030+ (LE2030+) Networking Group Secretariat The state of education As is widely understood but warrants repeating, the COVID-19 pandemic has constituted an unprecedented, multifaceted global crisis...

16 September 2022, BANGKOK ‒ On the occasion of World Ozone Day (16 September), which commemorates the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, UNEP and its partners are pleased to announce that 36 artists have won the ‘Asia Pacific...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and e-Governance can play important roles in improving access to information in our digital world. Digital transformation of government services can help bridge the digital divide, by providing citizens with tailor-made and...

On 13 September, Japan became the 17th country in the world and first in the Asia-Pacific region to join the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, bringing it one step closer to its entry into force. Japan is...

Terms of Reference I. Background The launch of UNESCO’s Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education in 2021 highlighted the urgent need to reinvent education to help us address common challenges to the future of humanity and the...