Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Monday, April 25, 2011

ATTENTION: If we want to get 1 thing right......


1. If all of us can focus on one important dimension to ensure sustainable development of Malaysia, SDMalaysia strongly urge that we collectively embrace high performance in the country's education system.  
2.  An effective education system will contribute to churn talents in the knowledge based economy
3. There is still a BIG GAP currently in Malaysia's aspiration to achieve a Knowledge Based economy. 77% of our workforce today only attained SPM qualifications and We merely spend 1%  of GDP in R&D.  
4. We should get one of our universities in this Top 200 list in the next three years. Let's learn from our neighbours Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan on their success models.
4. We can begin by implementing education policies in a longer time horizon. Uturn or flip flop of decisions will victimize many parties especially the students and teachers/lecturers. 
5. Most importantly, as we have seen mistakes in the past...DO NOT POLITICIZE EDUCATION!
6.  Sustainable Development in Malaysia will only be possible if we have a Sustainable Education System.
7. Less rhetoric and more global benchmarking will be the right step forward.