Literacy and Lifelong Learning

In countries across the Asia-Pacific region, prolonged school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the education, health and well-being of all learners, with data on the medium and longer term impacts still to be assessed. Such evidence from...

On 7 February 2022, UNESCO Bangkok, together with Iris Ohyama (Thailand) and Tak Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 (Tak PESAO 2) of the Thailand Ministry of Education, organized the donation by Iris Ohyama (Thailand) of 570,000 disposable face...

Since the mid-1980s, the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok) has been a hub of knowledge development and programme management for Adult Learning and Education (ALE), Non-Formal Education (NFE) and Lifelong Learning (LLL)...

Somrudee Rongrak, a 28-year-old non-formal education learner from Thailand’s Trang province, lost her job as a salesperson for a convenience store due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She decided to turn to her community by taking up a position as a village...

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...