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11 hours ago
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கல்விச் சட்டத் திருத்தம் அடுத்த மாதம் நாடாளுமன்றத்தில் தாக்கல் செய்யப்படும்
Minister of Education Fadhlina Sidek on a press conference aftet the ASEAN Ministers of Education and Higher Education Roundtables and Events here today. -- fotoBERNAMA (2025) COPYRIGHT RESERVED
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11 hours ago
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ASEAN Education Ministers Agree On Langkawi Joint Statement On Overcoming School Dropouts
Minister of Education Fadhlina Sidek on a press conference aftet the ASEAN Ministers of Education and Higher Education Roundtables and Events here today. -- fotoBERNAMA (2025) COPYRIGHT RESERVED LANGKAWI, June 19 (Bernama) — The Langkawi Joint Statement on Out-of-School Children and Youth (OOSCY) has been agreed by ASEAN Education Ministers as a framework to address the challenges of access to education. Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the key content of the document entitled "Accelerating Innovative Strategies: Addressing the OOSCY Challenges" will be further refined in a seminar ahead of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur this October. 'We have gone through a long process to reach a consensus on this commitment. Thankfully, no amendments were made and national leaders have given their respective views on how ASEAN can act as a united community to implement interventions and address this issue seriously. 'Malaysia will translate this commitment through the organisation of a seminar in October, and we hope that it can be changed to action after being agreed upon by all Education Ministers as a joint commitment,' she said at a press conference after the ASEAN Education Ministers and Higher Education Ministers Roundtable (#EduRoundtables2025) here today. Fadhlina also stressed that the issue of student dropout as well as the level of numeracy and literacy are closely linked to poverty and must be given serious attention. In Malaysia, for example, she said several interventions have been implemented, including leading the issue of foundational learning through expanding access to preschool education, establishing a special committee to strengthen the curriculum, and examining the need for digital technology reforms, including classrooms powered by artificial intelligence. Langkawi's Joint Statement on OOSCY acknowledges that crises and challenges in the ASEAN region including climate change, conflict situations, deepening poverty, income inequality and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the inequality gap in education. "We emphasise the urgent need to address educational disparities to ensure inclusive, accessible and high-quality education for OOSCY as underscored in the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Education for OOSCY, adopted in 2016. "We underscore the necessity for ASEAN Member States to accelerate the implementation of innovative, targeted, and meaningful strategies within and across ASEAN to reduce the number of OOSCY within and across ASEAN states.
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12 hours ago
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Use Of Technology, Competent Teachers Among Efforts To Address Student Dropout Issues In ASEAN, Says Fadhlina
Minister of Education Fadhlina Sidek on a press conference after the ASEAN Ministers of Education and Higher Education Roundtables and Events in Langkawi. -- fotoBERNAMA (2025) COPYRIGHT RESERVED LANGKAWI, June 19 (Bernama) -- ASEAN countries have identified three main interventions in their joint efforts to address the issue of dropouts and out-of-school children and youth (OOSCY), namely the expansion of preschool education, use of technology and competent teachers. Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the issue was the main focus during the joint statement session held in conjunction with the two-day ASEAN Education and Higher Education Ministers' Roundtable 2025 (#EduRoundtables2025) which started here yesterday. "Our focus in this meeting is on the issue of dropouts, out-of-school children and youth, which emphasises several important interventions for us to consider as an ASEAN community to address this issue. "In the meeting just now, the leaders of these countries have already given their respective views on how ASEAN can move as one community to seriously address this issue together," she said. According to her, among the initial approaches discussed was the enforcement of compulsory preschool education policies as implemented in Brunei. "Brunei has already pioneered that agenda, as mentioned in the speech by Brunei's Minister of Education earlier, that among the ways to ensure that children receive their rights is to start by enforcing laws for mandatory preschool education policies. "We are also looking into that situation, and at the level of the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE), we hope to bring it to the next Parliament session. Hopefully, we will have time to present our amendments for the compulsory education policy, starting with secondary schools first," she said during a press conference after #EduRoundtables2025 here today. Commenting further, Fadhlina said the second focus is on the use of technology as an important tool in addressing the issue of dropouts. "There are indeed several important approaches to see the need for this technology to become tools in addressing the issue of dropouts.
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13 hours ago
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MOE To Table Amendments To Education Act For Compulsory Secondary Education Next Month
Minister of Education Fadhlina Sidek on a press conference aftet the ASEAN Ministers of Education and Higher Education Roundtables and Events in Langkawi. -- fotoBERNAMA (2025) COPYRIGHT RESERVED LANGKAWI, June 19 (Bernama) — The Ministry of Education (MOE) will table amendments to the Education Act 1996 in Parliament next month to make it compulsory for children to receive education until the age of 17 to overcome the problem of student dropout. Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said that the enforcement of the law is one of the measures taken to ensure that every child has the right to quality education up to the completion of secondary school. After finalising the compulsory secondary education policy, we will look into the benefits of compulsory preschool education, she told a press conference after the ASEAN Education Ministers and Higher Education Ministers Roundtable Conference (#EduRoundtables2025) here, today. The next Parliament session is scheduled to start from July 21 to August 28. Under the Compulsory Primary Education Policy, every parent of a citizen residing in Malaysia must ensure that their child receives six years of compulsory primary education. Fadhlina said that the ongoing education reform initiatives include the expansion of preschools, though several challenges remain, particularly in developing the necessary infrastructure, addressing logistics issues, and building the capacity of qualified teachers. She said that competent and trained teachers are important to providing young children with early exposure and a strong educational foundation at the preschool stage, before they begin formal mainstream schooling, a key step in reducing school dropout rates caused by barriers to early access. 'So, before we implement the policy to make preschool compulsory, we must first prepare the ecosystem, infrastructure and teachers,' she said. Earlier, Fadhlina delivered a welcoming address at the roundtable conference, which aims to strengthen regional cooperation in education, followed by a closed meeting of ASEAN education ministers.
