Education Networking in Southeast Asia during the Colloquium for Humboldt Fellows and Awardees in Thailand

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Education Networking in Southeast Asia during
the Colloquium for Humboldt Fellows and Awardees
in Thailand Regional Networking a Chance for
Science and Scholarship 23-25 November 2007,
Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Dato Dr Ahamad bin Sipon
• Director-Designate
• SEAMEO Secretariat

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Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organization (SEAMEO)

• 42nd year
• Governed by SEAMEO Council
• - Brunei Darussalam - Cambodia
• - Lao PDR - Indonesia
• - Malaysia - Myanmar
• - Philippines - Singapore
• - Thailand - Timor Leste and
• - Vietnam
• Held back-to-back with the ASEAN Education
  Ministers Meeting

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SEAMEO

• Eight Associate Members
• Australia
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• New Zealand
• the Netherlands
• Norway and
• Spain

• An Affiliate Member
• International Council for Open and Distance
  Education (ICDE) based in Norway

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SEAMEO

• Oversees 15 SEAMEO Regional Centres
• Tropical Biology (Indonesia)
• History and Tradition (Myanmar)
• Educational Innovation and Technology
  (Philippines)
• Education in Science and Mathematics (Malaysia)
• Languages Centre (Singapore)

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SEAMEO

• Regional Training Centre (Vietnam)
• Higher Education and Development (Thailand)
• Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
  (Philippines)
• Archaeology and Fine Arts (Thailand)
• Community Nutrition (Indonesia)

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SEAMEO

• Microbiology, Parasitology and Entomology
  (Malaysia)
• Public Health (Philippines)
• Tropical Medicine (Thailand)
• Open Learning Centre (Indonesia)
• Vocational and Technical Education and Training
  (Brunei Darussalam)

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SEAMEO

• One Network Tropical Medicine and Public Health
  (Thailand)
• Secretariat in Bangkok

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SEAMEO and Science Education in Southeast Asia

• Member States move towards the sciences, if not
  improving on their science curricula and
  perspective
• Recognizes the need to have adequate resources

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SEAMEO and Science Education in Southeast Asia

• Keeps track of the fast changing trends in
  education
• Recognizes the need to help member countries
  improve their human resource capabilities

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SEAMEO and Science Education in Southeast Asia

• Council expressed very enthusiastic prospects of
  building the regions human infrastructure in
  education, science and culture
• Science education in member countries respects
  the necessity and significance of values in
  teaching and learning

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Integration of ICT in Education

• Improvements in integrating (ICT) in educational
  systems
• Concerns on structural and geographical
  challenges

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Integration of ICT in Education

• Indonesia, launched the Indonesia National ICT
  Education Network or Jardiknas
• Stresses the need to address ICT development in
  hardware, software and teacher training

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Integration of ICT in Education

• Defining the roles of both the government and the
  private sector in sharing the responsibility of
  developing ICT networks for education purposes
• Concerns in protecting national values and in
  ensuring safe and ethical use of the Internet

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Integration of ICT in Education

• Singapore shared its ICT master plan that
  integrates ICT into the curriculum
• Centres promote technology-aided education and
  instruction to ease teaching and learning and to
  introduce and integrate the technology into the
  structure and system of education

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Integration of ICT in Education

• SEAMEO INNOTECH currently uses ICT-aided
  education such as Text-to-teach and iFLEX
• SEAMEO SEAMOLEC conducts training on technology
  and web-based distance learning such as the
  conduct of the web-based course development using
  moodels

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Integration of ICT in Education

• SEAMEO VOCTECH is strengthening regional networks
  that offer training on managing ICT in
  institutions and maintaining competitive computer
  learning

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Education for sustainable development

• ESD is about changing values and behaviors while
  emphasizing the core concepts of sustainable
  development such as
• knowledge in global warming, ozone depletion and
  preserving biodiversity,
• managing agriculture, fisheries and rural
  development,

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Education for sustainable development

• promoting health, sanitation and environmentally
  responsible lifestyles and
• inculcating traditional Southeast Asian values in
  the midst of changing social influences
• Human Values-based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
  Education in Southeast Asia (HVBWSE) that
  involved an inter-centre collaboration, with the
  support of the UN-HABITAT

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Education for sustainable development

• Conducted a training course aimed to develop the
  competencies of teachers and education
  professionals by sensitizing them to HVBWSE, try
  out lesson plans and disseminate the knowledge to
  other teachers
• At the ministerial level and through 15 Regional
  Centres, ESD concerns are promoted through
  values, reorientation of education programmes and
  developing awareness

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Education for sustainable development

• SEAMEO SEARCA proposes to enhance and strengthen
  the agricultural curricula of universities in the
  region
• SEAMEO BIOTROP is engaged in research and testing
  to sustain the tropical ecosystem and to find
  solutions to environmental problems.

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Education for sustainable development

• The work of both SEAMEO SEARCA in agricultural
  competitiveness and natural resource management
  and SEAMEO BIOTROP in preserving ecology have a
  great significance in contributing to food
  security and poverty reduction

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Tropical medicine, medical research and public
health

• SEAMEO Tropical Medicine and Public Health
  Network or SEAMEO TROPMED/ Network has four
  regional centres attached to universities in
  Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  
• Doing specialized scientific pursuits in tropical
  medicine, community nutrition, public health, and
  parasitology, entomology and microbiology

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Tropical medicine, medical research and public
health

• The Mahidol University Faculty of Tropical
  Medicine in Bangkok hosts the SEAMEO Regional
  Centre for Tropical Medicine and the central
  network office
• Germany, through the GTZ and the GTZ BACKUP
  Initiative, has an extensive partnership with
  this network, in particular, in its development
  programmes in capacity-building at the
  institutional and individual levels

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Tropical medicine, medical research and public
health

• Germany is a partner in the SEAMEO TROPMED
  Networks programmes with the National Institute
  of Public Health in Cambodia and in hospital
  management training in Indonesia
• It also supports the network in strengthening the
  capacity of partner countries in improving a more
  effective global fight against HIV/AIDS,
  tuberculosis and malaria and in preventive
  education against these infectious diseases

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Tropical medicine, medical research and public
health

• SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centres are also
  supported by partners such as Japan, the World
  Health Organization, UNICEF and a host of other
  international research and medical networks
  within and beyond the region.

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Mathematics and Science Education

• Conducted a workshop on special mathematics and
  science high schools
• Analysed examination questions to establish the
  schools expectations and to compare their
  varying standards

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Mathematics and Science Education

• Analysed Students performance in the exams was
  to establish and identify the factors that
  contribute to the gaps between expectation and
  performance
• Agreed to collaborate in improving the tests and
  helping regular schools improve math and science
  education

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Mathematics and Science Education

• The experiences and success of these schools to
  improve the teaching of science and mathematics
  in the regular secondary school system
• Vietnam will host a regional seminar to discuss
  more deeply the quality of science and
  mathematics education in the region

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Regional Cooperation in High Education

• Plan for a structured framework or network of
  higher education integration to raise awareness,
  list down priority areas of concern and organize
  summits to improve higher education
• Bring together the initiatives of Ministers of
  Education

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Regional Cooperation in High Education

• Brings about a more common area of addressing the
  needs of the higher education sector,
  specifically in improving university governance,
  quality assurance, and functional cooperation
  through research and training
• Will not only provide a common space for higher
  education institutions and experts but the
  Southeast Asian region as an educational hub as
  well

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Conclusion

• SEAMEO does not bask in its success in some areas
  of education, especially in science
• In majority of SEAMEO member countries, there is
  still an utter lack of learning facilities and
  infrastructure, both in school buildings and
  teaching staff and competencies

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Conclusion

• The challenges will always be there in helping
  these member countries, but SEAMEO is always
  hopeful because of the many opportunities that
  help the organization improve education

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