Education Futures: Going for Gold

1. The Launch of SEAMEO College Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization 20 March 2013, 1115-1200 hrs Grand Ballroom, Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam Education Futures:Going for Gold YongyuthYuthavong Former Minister of Science and Technology Thailand

2. SEAMEO 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 

3. 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

4. The three components should interact Modules Research Capacity strengthening

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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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10. 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.

11. Best wishes for the success of SEAMEO College