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Can AI close the learning gap?
On the International Day of Education, which was celebrated on Jan 24, we reflect on the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. This year's focus on AI comes at a critical time, as the world grapples with a learning crisis. Even before Covid-19, 128 million young people in the Asia-...
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Every Child Must Have Legal Status
The Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection (DJOP) has joined forces with UNICEF Thailand to help stateless children in the juvenile system and educational institutions gain legal status. Last week, DJOP officials from across Thailand attended a two-day training supported by UNICEF to learn about laws an...
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Voice of the Future
Atichat Butchan, 11, from Sakon Nakhon province, became the youngest ever member of UNICEF’s Young People Advisory Board in 2023. The Board advises UNICEF on its work in high priority areas including education, mental health and climate change. He shares his views on Thailand’s past, present and future. “My Dad sa...
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Seven steps towards a better future for Thailand and its children
What will Thailand’s future look like? Next year, the UN hosts its Summit of the Future, a chance to examine global progress in an age of technological, climatic, and geopolitical upheaval. But we don’t have to wait to start considering the question. If we want to see Thailand’s future, we must first see its child...
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For a child with disability, their dream, opportunity and future lies in equitable education.
Education is the door of opportunity. Every child strives for the best school. This was no different for me, a girl carrying a dream and having hope for a good life in the future. So this girl chose to apply to the school that she thought was the best school. However, she was rejected just because she was disabled...
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Poor youth mental health is costing Thailand
I know children and adolescents to be incredibly resilient, as a mother of three and in my work with UNICEF. But their mental health has seriously suffered from the grief, uncertainty, isolation and stress over the past years of COVID-19 and well before that. As recent tragic cases of youth suicide in Thailand sho...