Education Futures: Going for Gold 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 Yongyuth Yuthavong Former Minister of Science and Technology Thailand

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 

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

The three components should interact Modules Research Capacity strengthening

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

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 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

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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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.

Best wishes for the success of SEAMEO College