PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today launched
the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 Preliminary Report which
outlines 11 strategic and operational shifts to transform the country's
education system.
The preliminary Blueprint offers a vision of
the education system and students that Malaysia both needs and deserves,
detailing the shifts required to achieve that vision.
The report
was earlier tabled by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin,
who is also Education Minister, at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
(KLCC), here.
The document says the Education Ministry hopes that
this effort will inform the national discussion on how to fundamentally
transform Malaysia's education system, and will seek feedback from
across the community on this preliminary effort before finalising the
Blueprint in December 2012.
The education transformation is to
take place over 13 years, with Wave 1 (2012-2015) focusing on efforts to
turn around the system by supporting teachers and focusing on core
skills, Wave 2 (2016-2020) on accelerating system improvement and Wave 3
(2021-2025) on moving towards excellence with increased operational
flexibility.
The five outcomes that the Blueprint aspires for the
Malaysian education system cover the areas of access, quality, equity,
unity and efficiency.
It seeks to develop students who possess
six key attributes that will enable them to be globally competitive,
namely knowledge, thinking skills, leadership skills, bilingual
proficiency, ethics and spirituality, as well as national identity.
The 11 shifts identified by the ministry are:
1. Provide equal access to quality education of an international standard.
2. Ensure every child is proficient in Bahasa Malaysia and English language.
3. Develop values-driven Malaysians.
4. Transform teaching into the profession of choice.
5. Ensure high-performing school leaders in every school.
6. Empower State Education Departments, District Education Offices and schools
to customise solutions based on need.
7. Leverage information and communication technology to scale up quality
learning across Malaysia.
8. Transform ministry delivery capabilities and capacity.
9. Partner with parents, community and private sector at scale.
10.Maximize student outcomes for every ringgit.
11.Increase transparency for direct public accountability.
The
report notes that the Education Ministry had launched a comprehensive
review of the education system in October 2011 in order to develop a new
National Education Blueprint.
It says the decision was made in
the context of rising international education standards, the
government's aspiration of better preparing Malaysia's children for the
needs of the 21st century, and increased public and parental
expectations of the education policy.
Over the course of a year,
over 50,000 ministry officials, teachers, principals, parents, students
and members of the public across Malaysia were engaged via interviews,
focus groups, surveys, and National Dialogue town hall and roundtable
discussions.
The ministry also appointed a 12-member Malaysian
panel of experts and a four-member international panel of experts to
provide independent input into the review findings.
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