Education Blueprint to be fine-tuned for better implementation
LONDON: The Education Ministry will intensify efforts to fine-tune the Malaysia Education Blueprint to better implement its measures.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid, said there would be continuous engagement with institutions in Malaysia and abroad to gather feedback to improve the implementation.
He said such an engagement would allow the ministry to gauge the progress of the implementation and rectify shortcomings.
“We also need to continue working with other international institutions, such as the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) as it helps us link with world-class organisations to improve our education standards.
“We will continue working with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation as we cannot work in a silo to achieve our goals,” he said after a dialogue with Malaysian students in the United Kingdom here on Friday.
Present were Malaysian high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland Datuk Ahmad Rasidi Hazizi, Education director-general Datuk Dr Amin Senin and the ministry’s Education Performance and Delivery Unit chief executive officer Khadijah Abdullah.
Mahdzir cited an example of the ministry’s collaboration with Unesco’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development as a positive engagement in finding solutions for issues on indiscipline, bullying and gangsterism involving students.
Mahdzir said the ministry welcomed all stakeholders, including academicians, professionals and university students, to share their ideas in improving the blueprint.
“While the blueprint has been recognised as the most comprehensive masterplan to transform our education system, we need to add value from time to time as we have the roadmap and the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to achieve from 2013 to 2025.
“I have told academicians from several universities that this (implementation of blueprint) is a work in progress and we treasure the input that will take our education system to greater heights.”
He said his work visits in Paris to attend Unesco’s 39th general assembly and London had been successful as he could share updates on the implementation of the blueprint with an international audience and Malaysian students here.
He said it was important for Malaysians to understand that the implementation of the blueprint was not the sole responsibility of the ministry.
“I wish to see all of us play our part by providing input and refraining from being negative about changes for the benefit of our education system.”