Partner Institutions

RAVTE: The Regional Association of Technical Education in Asia (RAVTE) was founded in March 2014 by fourteen universities in charge of vocational teacher training and vocational education research. RAVTE’s mission is to promote international vocational education and training cooperation and by emphasizing the importance of TVET in general and vocational teacher education (VTE) in particular at regional and national levels. RAVTE intends to support personnel development in order to enhance TVET quality and efficiency as well as fostering the ongoing integration activities and developments in East and Southeast Asian countries. Today, the association comprises of 26 universities from universities from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

In its research and cooperation activities, RAVTE’s special focus lies on:

• work-based learning in TVET,
• public and private stakeholder engagement
• enhancing TVET in the context of Industry 4.0
• encouraging Green TVET in order to promote green skills and green jobs

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SEAMEO VOCTECH: The SEAMEO Regional Centre for Vocational and Technical Education and Training (SEAMEO VOCTECH) was established in Brunei Darussalam in 1990 as one of the centres within the Network of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO). SEAMEO VOCTECH aims at assisting SEAMEO member countries in identifying and overcoming common challenges in the field of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It also works towards making its members’ TVET systems fit for Industry 4.0.

SEAMEO VOCTECH supports its members by offering SEAMEO training programmes in the following areas:

• Curriculum Design and Development
• Teaching, Learning and Assessment
• Information and Communications Technology
• Management
• Research

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CPSC: The Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (CPSC) is an Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO), which consistently addresses issues in technical and vocational education and training in the Asian and Pacific region. It was established in 1973 at the 23rd Consultative Committee Meeting of the Colombo Plan held in Wellington, New Zealand and its aim is to assist the member countries of the Colombo Plan in developing and enhancing their national TVET systems by applying a South-South cooperation approach. After being hosted in the Republic of Singapore, CPSC is located in Manila (Philippines) since 1987. CPSC has 26 member countries, who are supported in their aim of improving TVET quality through high-quality staff development and in-service training of TVET teachers and trainers and senior TVET staff.  Among the CPSC’s main functions fall:

• Promotion, coordination and implementation of research and development activities in the field of TVET
• Advice and assistance for member countries in developing their TVET teacher education
• Provision of further education courses and training for senior TVET staff
• Organisation of conferences on various TVET topics

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UNESCO Bangkok: The UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) was established in 1961 as the UNESCO Asian Regional Office for Primary and Compulsory Education. It then became the UNESCO Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in 1987 and the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in 2000. Since 2023, it is the UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok. UNESCO Bangkok represents UNESCO in the United Nations Regional Collaborative Platform in Asia and the Pacific, and it serves as the secretariat of the Learning and Education 2030+ Networking Group in Asia and the Pacific. Furthermore, UNESCO Bangkok hosts the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC).

In line with UNESCO’s overall mission, UNESCO Bangkok supports the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contributes to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

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Here you will find more information on UNESCO Bangkok’s work in the Asian-Pacific region.