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Bangkok's Leap into Lifelong Learning for All
Published on 02/04/2024
» Bangkok unveils its vision for multidimensional learning to transform into a learning city accessible everywhere and at all times for everyone.
Unesco adds three Thai ‘learning cities’
Post Reporters, Published on 15/02/2024
» Bangkok, Khon Kaen and Yala have been included in Unesco’s 2024 Global Network for Learning Cities (GNLC) for promoting lifelong learning, according to Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob.
Asia pursues goal of lifelong learning curve
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 06/11/2022
» SINGAPORE: Thai universities are being urged to work with the Unesco Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to promote lifelong learning programmes in the country.
3 Thai cities added to Unesco learning network
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/09/2022
» Sukhothai, Phayao and Hat Yai in Songkhla province have been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (Unesco) list of "learning cities", raising the number of such cities in Thailand to seven.
Thailand’s R&D Grows Amidst Covid-19 NXPO sets R&D investment target at 2 percent of GDP by 2027
Published on 26/05/2022
» The Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO), led by Dr. Kitipong Promwong, President, reveals that the volume of R&D investment in Thailand has grown continuously since 2011. Despite the Covid-19 Pandemic, which prompted the government sector to take action in the form of increased public R&D injection in response to potential national R&D slump from the pandemic, in accordance with a prior forecast by NXPO, the survey on R&D investment in 2020 by the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) shows an increase in the country’s R&D allocation to 208,009 million baht (66,304 million baht – or 32 percent – from the government sector and 141,705 million baht – or 68 percent – from the private sector). Noteworthily, the amount from the government sector increased from the previous year by almost 10 percent. The investment in R&D accounts for 1.33 percent of GDP, up from 1.14 percent last year.
3 Thai cities honoured by Unesco
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 23/09/2020
» Three Thai cities have joined the Unesco Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), along with 52 other cities from 27 countries that will also become lifelong learning cities.
Bad education?
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 11/02/2019
» Sex is rarely a topic we discuss freely in Thailand. Shunned in our conservative culture, sex -- as a topic of discussion -- is received with either embarrassment, shame or laughter, not to be taken seriously or with a straight face.
Unesco honours Kamphol, late founder of Thai Rath
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/11/2017
» The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has praised Kamphol Vacharaphol, the late founder of Thai Rath newspaper, for his work in education and promoting and developing journalism in the country.
The legend of Ajarn Puey grows
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 30/01/2016
» Regarded as a national hero, Puey Ungphakorn is a towering figure even in death for having set the standards that shaped the country’s economic development and improving the lives of rural people.
Young minds grow in the forest
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 09/05/2015
» It’s a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon in the western provinces. Some 40 boys and girls jump out of commuter vans at the entrance to Kanchanaburi’s Pu Toey-Pu Lad community forest.