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. ?Lifelong learning has long been an important educational policy and part of Thailand’s National Education Act. ?In 1999, the Act mandated “l(fā)ifelong education for all” as the basic guiding principle and the goal of the education system. ?The Act stipulated that formal, nonformal and informal education must be intertwined to create an ability to develop the quality of life on a lifelong basis. How do life skills relate to lifelong learning? Life skills are the essence of the lifelong learning. ? Skills development for youth and adults was recognized in the third EFA goal, focusing on the learning needs of all young people and adults. ?The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2022 identified three main types of skills : foundation, transferable, and technical and vocational skills. ?In Thailand, skill development for lifelong learning has been emphasized in the 11th National Economic and Social Development Plan ( 25552559). ?The plan emphasizes skills needed for a lifelong learning society focus on knowledge, innovation, and creativity, and are based on the development of five types of mind — the disciplined mind, the synthesized mind, the creative mind, the respectful mind and the ethical mind. What are the regional education challenges ? ? Education for All movement, initiated in Jomtien in 1990 ? Education for All agenda and the educationrelated MDGs are unlikely to be fully achieved by 2022 ? Worldwide, more than 57 million children and 69 million adolescents still do not have access to effective basic education. ? In 2022, an estimated 774 million adults were illiterate. Of these, almost twothirds were women. ? At least 250 million children are not able to read, write or count well, even after at least four years in school. 2022 Regional EFA Synthesis Report: AsiaPacific, ?Asia Pacific region has the highest number of illiterate adults (64%). ?The number of illiterate