A NEW DEAL FOR EDUCATION: LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL ORIENTATION OF LIFELONG LEARNING DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA

By Prof .Dr. Arne Carlsen
Director of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Germany.

I would like to begin by saying that it is a very challenging task to stand before you as a European and talk to you about your own region, in front of ministers who know the system better than anybody else, certainly myself. Let me further say that I have a personal interest in this region, having visited almost all ASEAN countries. My personal observations from South-East Asia are built on my global perspective in the field of lifelong learning, in my work as Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, in my cooperation with Ms Katherine Muller, the Director of the UNESCO Office in Hanoi, and Mr Gwang-Jo Kim, the Director of UNESCO Regional Office ​

in Bangkok, and based on several visits as visiting professor at Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Peking University. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, in my cooperation with Ms Katherine Muller, the Director of the UNESCO Office in Hanoi, and Mr Gwang-Jo Kim, the Director of UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok, and based on several visits as visiting professor at Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Peking University.

Source: Proceedings of the Policy Forum on Lifelong Learning - Policy and Vision. 47th SEAMEO Council Conference (SEAMEC 47). Hanoi. March 2013.

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