Recent Publications

• 25.05.12:

  Aid effectiveness in education: what is really needed?

  There is a general consensus that international aid is beneficial to countries that adopt sound and stable policies. Aid is found to have maximum effect when it is targeted to recipient countries’ needs and priorities, managed by strong institutions and supported by sound policies. But when it comes to education, there remains limited research on the role of external aid in contributing to improving quality of education, in particular the importance of policy environment in allowing aid to be...

• 25.05.12:

  A milestone for UNESCO: Malaysia Education Policy Review

  

  After months of desk research, field visits and interviews with stakeholders, UNESCO has finalized the Malaysia Education Policy Review (M-EPR) at the request of the Malaysian Ministry of Education.

• 25.05.12:

  Key development partners meet to discuss: the road to education reform in Myanmar

  

  UNESCO Bangkok, together with key development partners, met in Yangon to discuss a nationwide Comprehensive Education Sector Review (CESR) with the Ministry of Education, Myanmar.

• 25.05.12:

  The understated importance of non-cognitive skills

  

  In shaping the future of education in the Asia-Pacific, we must pay close attention to the development of “non-cognitive skills”, agreed panelists during the high-level expert meeting, “Towards EFA 2015 and Beyond – Shaping a New Vision of Education,” Bangkok, 9-11 May 2012.

• 18.05.12:

  COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRES: ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT

  

  The Community Learning Centre (CLC) Project was launched in 1998 within the framework of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL).

• 09.05.12:

  UNGEI Newsletter April 2012: Sport, play, recreation and gender equality in education

  

  The UN Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) are pleased to announce the release of the East Asia and Pacific Regional UNGEI April 2012 newsletter which focuses on ‘sport, play, recreation and gender equality in education’.

  The newsletter can be found here:

• 26.04.12:

  Graduate employability in Asia

  

  Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2012

  ISBN: 978-92-9223-395-2 (Electronic version)

• 24.04.12:

  8th Consultation of Member States on the Implementation of the Convention and the Recommendation against Discrimination in Education

  UNESCO monitors the implementation of the Convention and the Recommendation against Discrimination in Education (1960).

• 24.04.12:

  Distance Education Programme through UNESCO-IIEP!

  UNESCO-IIEP Distance Education Programme on Education Sector Planning (4 June 2012 to 3 May 2013) -- Deadline for Application 30 April 2012.

• 22.04.12:

  UNESCO Engages in Malaysian Education Policy Review

  In November 2011, the Ministry of Education (MOE), Malaysia and UNESCO formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to “evaluate the aims, strategies and achievements of the Malaysian education system in relation to its national and international contexts, its stated development goals and in comparison to international trends and standards.”

• 12.04.12:

  A Basic guide to open educational resources (OER)

  
• 03.04.12:

  Household-based literacy survey 2011

  

  Literacy survey in Makwanpur, Rupandehi and Rasuwa

• 27.03.12:

  The map to literacy

  

  Actions to spread literacy need to be accelerated, according to Roshan Bajracharya, a specialist in literacy and non-formal education statistics at UNESCO Bangkok. He warns that the overall literacy rate of the world is far too low, at 83 per cent in 2008 and progressing far too slow in reaching the global target literacy rate of 90.9 per cent by the target year of 2015.

• 23.03.12:

  Empowering Girls and Women through Physical Education and Sport - Advocacy Brief

  

  The topic of girls and physical education has been widely researched and reported. The issues influencing girls’ participation in physical education and sport and the potential benefits are well known. The issues are complex at policy and strategy, professional and institutional, and at personal and social levels. This advocacy brief gives an overview on up-to-date facts and figures and offers strategies to overcome inequalities in physical education.

  Few facts: Girls and women as group...

• 19.03.12:

  Graduate employability in Asia

  

  In a rapidly changing world with diverse demands, universities face the challenge to produce human resources with the right capacities, skills and knowledge to meet society’s needs. Governments call on universities to facilitate the shift to knowledge-based economy and high-technology to ensure a...