Education

Thailand first introduced a sex-education curriculum four decades ago. Since then, concepts of sexuality education have continued to evolve, reflecting a much more expansive understanding of students’ well-being, not just in terms of sexual and...

There are 70 million primary and secondary school teachers in the world, 56% of whom are in the Asia-Pacific, but in some countries the pupil-teacher ratio is between 40:1 and 60:1. On the occasion of the Regional Seminar on Innovative School Leadership...

In early May 2019, Thailand’s Department of Disease Control announced a drastic increase in syphilis infections in the country, with more than one in three infections among children of school and college-going age. Between 2000 and 2014, Thailand...

In a recent survey, 55% of LGBTI students surveyed in Thailand reported experiencing physical, psychological or sexual violence in the past month. In Viet Nam, 44% of LGBTI students consider homophobic and transphobic stigma at school “serious”. In Japan,...