Education Futures: Going for Gold

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Education FuturesGoing for Gold
The Launch of SEAMEO College Southeast Asian
Ministers of Education Organization 20 March
2013, 1115-1200 hrs Grand Ballroom, Daewoo Hotel,
Hanoi, Vietnam

• Yongyuth Yuthavong
• Former Minister of Science and Technology
• Thailand

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SEAMEO College Flagship Initiative

• Strengthening SEAMEOs capacity to promote
  education and social development in Southeast
  Asia
• Support for a regional platform on innovations in
  education and human resource development towards
  an integrated ASEAN Communiy 

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Three major components

• Modules
• Policy development - Ministers
• Strategic and standards setting High officials
• Accessing, sharing and documenting good practices
  Education practitioners and youth leaders
• Research
• Human and technology capacity strengthening

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The three components should interact
Modules
Research
Capacity strengthening
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Looking around for benchmarks

• World Economic Forum
• World leaders, at Davos
• Economic and other policy issues, global
  competitiveness, started 1971 by business leaders
• Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum
• Ministers of Science and Technology, in Kyoto
• Science, technology and innovation policy, role
  in society, started 2004 by Minister Koji Omi
• UNESCO Ministerial Roundtables
• Ministers of Education/Science/Culture, in Paris
• Policy and practice relating UNESCO, generally
  during General Conferences

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How would SEAMEO College make a mark?

• Must become an important policy forum
• For world education, with SE Asia as example
• With strong political and societal support
• Must have wide participation
• Government and business leaders
• Grassroot, civil society leaders
• Education leaders
• Must become benchmark for education policy,
  especially for developing countries

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Key to Gold Benchmark for Education Policy for
Developing Countries

• Develop key themes in education policy
• Education policy for low and middle income
  countries
• Active and interactive learning
• Role of the private sector and local communities
• Education innovations
• Hold annual, worldwide conference on a key theme
• Eg. Prince Mahidol Award Conference on Health
• Produce important documents in education
• Policy documents from research
• Lessons from successful developing countries
• Rating of educational instituttions in developing
  countries

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Some suggestions for the key annual event of
SEAMEO College

• SEASE - Southeast Asian Summit on Education
• SECSE SEAMEO College Summit on Education
• SESAME Summit on Education of Southeast Asian
  Ministers of Education

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Key to Gold SEAMEO College as Boutique Shop in
Education

• Education policy and practice for low- and
  middle-income developing countries.
• Examples of success and failure worldwide.
• Key indicators for education, with special
  emphasis on developing countries
• Cost-effectiveness
• Vocational education
• Use of IT and learning innovations
• Institutional rating, etc.
• Annual SESAME Conference to bring stakeholders
  together.

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Best wishes for the success of SEAMEO College