Education Futures:Education Futures:Going for GoldGoing for GoldYongyuth Yuthavong

Former Minister of Science and TechnologyThailand

The Launch of SEAMEO CollegeSoutheast Asian Ministers of Education Organization

20 March 2013, 1115-1200 hrsGrand Ballroom, Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam

SEAMEO College: Flagship InitiativeSEAMEO College: Flagship Initiative

• Strengthening SEAMEO’s 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

Three major componentsThree 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

The three components should interactThe three components should interact

Looking around for benchmarksLooking 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

How would SEAMEO College make a mark?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

Key to Gold: Benchmark for Education Key to Gold: Benchmark for Education Policy for Developing CountriesPolicy 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

Some suggestions for the key Some suggestions for the key annual event of SEAMEO Collegeannual 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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• 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.

Best wishesfor the success of

SEAMEO College