Non-formal Education and Literacy

On one of her early study trips to Thailand, Japanese native Yoshimi Horiuchi met a teenage boy with muscular dystrophy, who had been out of school for most of his life. The boy’s weakened muscles caused him to fall in the first grade and the school told...

Transforming Education and Training Systems to Create Lifelong Learning Societies in the Asia-Pacific Project The project aims to assist countries in the region in reorienting their education and training systems towards creating lifelong learning...

In Lao PDR and Myanmar, UNESCO Bangkok is providing technical assistance in developing equivalency programmes for lower secondary education. In Myanmar, under the supervision and guidance of a UNESCO consultant, a technical writing team from key MOE...

In the highlands of Tak province, Thailand, there are a large number of ethnic minority groups especially Karen people who are Thai illiterate which accounts for 3 percent of the total population over 15 years old age group. UNESCO in collaboration with...

It’s not your typical karaoke session. The giggles and apparent trepidation a young woman shows before launching into a Thai love ballad might not be out of place among a group of friends out anywhere in the country, but the focus here is neither on vocal...