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Equity-based budgeting in education: School funding formula

The report "Equity-based budgeting in education: School funding formula" reviews the potential role and capacity of per-student funding (PSF) and other variants of needs-based funding formulae to promote equity in education. It defines and measures educational equity in the context of education financing and ident...

14 November 2022

Closing the learning gap in Mae Hong Son

The 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted by the National Statistical Office and UNICEF found large learning gaps between different social groups, with children from non-Thai speaking households performing the lowest of all children in Thailand in foundational literacy and numeracy. Poor foundati...

03 November 2022

The joy of reading

After listening to a senior student read them “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” groups of youngsters helped each other write their answers about the story they’d just heard on large sheets of paper. Once they finished, they moved on to the illustrations, drawing and colouring as well as crafting ants, grasshoppers an...

20 October 2022

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...

03 February 2022

Mission: Recovering Education in 2021

It's not enough for schools to simply reopen their doors after COVID-19. Students will need tailored and sustained support to help them readjust and catch-up after the pandemic. We must help schools prepare to provide that support and meet the enormous challenges of the months ahead. The time to act is now; the fu...

Bringing the School to the Students

Since 2005 UNICEF has worked with local education authorities in Mae Hong Son to develop the ‘District School’ concept. To reach at least 1,200 out-of-school children, existing and newly-opened learning centres were grouped together for administrative purposes into a single, larger ‘school’. One District School wo...

21 December 2020

What has been solved and what is yet to be solved

“Thailand is becoming the fastest ageing society in Southeast Asia. Thailand is becoming an ageing society as fast as Japan did 25 years ago, but when Japan became an ageing society at that time, they earned five times more per capita than in Thailand,” Thomas Davin, former UNICEF Representative in Thailand who co...

With a school-year like no other set to start, UNICEF ramps up support to keep children safe during school reopening

BANGKOK, 30 June 2020 – As schools nationwide are about to resume on July 1, UNICEF has ramped up support to prepare for a new school-year starting amidst the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Areas of support include delivering necessary supplies and providing health and hygiene information, as w...

Teacher’s manual to organize learning activities on COVID-19

Developed to help explain about COVID-19. The learning activities were designed for each age group ranging from preschool, primary school, middle school, high school and vocational school. In which teachers can apply or integrate the learning points or even adapt the teachings and learnings about other communicabl...

09 September 2019

UNICEF and Tops launch “Every Child Can Read” campaign to promote reading skills, with family participation

BANGKOK, 9 September 2019 – UNICEF and Central Food Hall and Tops launched Every Child Can Read, a campaign to promote the importance of reading and to support the development of children’s literacy skills. The campaign is nationwide in scope but also has a specific focus on disadvant...

Education for the 21st Century

The term ‘education for the 21 st Century’ recognises that we are living through a period of rapid change in an increasingly globalised environment, to which education systems need to adapt, not just through a one-off reform, but continuously. Innovation and technological advances are constantly changing the ways ...

Education

The challenge, Without quality education, children face major barriers to future employment, earning potential and fulfilling their dreams. They are more likely to suffer adverse health outcomes and less likely to participate in decisions that affect them – threatening their ability to shape a better future for th...