ABOUT EPR
The mission of the Education Policy and Reform (EPR) Unit is to promote policies and strategies that will improve education systems in countries of the Asia-Pacific region. In so doing, EPR works enhance the sector-wide coherence of education policy design with an explicit focus on cross-cutting issues such as improving the quality and relevance of learning and reaching marginalized populations.
EPR remains charged with UNESCO’s regional coordination and support in sector-wide policy analysis, management and finance issues, while upholding the Organization’s focus on quality learning and relevance in education, including in the areas that constitute the crossroads of learning (secondary education) and the crossroads of life (skills development through formal TVET).
EPR Areas of Focus
Education Research and Foresight
Today's world has evolved greatly since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar and the inception of the Millennium Development Goals and is facing multi-facetted and rapid changes, challenges and opportunities, which all have implications for education. While strengthening our efforts to meeting internationally agreed commitments made, there is a need to start the process of looking beyond EFA and the MDGs. Therefore, and within the overall function of UNESCO as a laboratory of ideas, UNESCO has started to facilitate the process of developing a new vision for education beyond 2015, while looking at the broader connections between education and societal development. UNESCO Bangkok, serving as the Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, will stimulate the shaping of a renewed regional education agenda while enriching global thinking about the international education agenda beyond 2015.
