23-25 February, 2009 at Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Presented by Lao Representative Nouamkham CHANTHABOULY

Education System in Lao PDR Ministry of Education  15 Department and;  3 Centers - Education Statistics Information Technology center - Quality Assurance - Center Promotion of Education for Women- Ethnic - Disabled people

Education System/Reform (Cont..)  Early Childhood Education  Primary Education  Secondary Education: -Reform the general education curriculum by increasing the number of years of schooling from 11 years (5+3+3) to 12 years (5+4+3)  Technical and Vocational Education  Higher Education

Higher Education (Cont)  Improve the quality of teaching and learning at the 3 Universities aiming to reach the regional standards and enabling links with international standards  Increase the percentage of female ethnic tertiary students enrolled in higher education courses  Improve Champasack University (grant from ADB)

 ASEAN Member states  ASEAN- Australia  ASEAN- China  ASEAN- India  ASEAN-Japan  ASEAN- Korea  ASEAN- New Zealand  ASEAN-EU  Others…

 Bilateral MOU in Cooperation in Education (Not yet)  Short term and long term Scholarship  Training/Seminar (Technical Vocational) (supported: Ministry of Education, SEAMEO VOTECH)

 Bilateral MOU between MOE, Lao PDR and MOEYS in Cooperation in Education  Government of Cambodia provide scholarship for Lao students to study - Culture, - Language 6 scholarship /year

 Minutes of Discussion Between Ministry of National Education of Indonesia and MOE, Lao PDR  Short and long terms Scholarship: - Under DARMASISWA 1-year program, Gov’t of Indonesia provide 20 scholar for students to study in Indonesia in the areas of culture and Indonesian language - Under South to South program: scholar for students to study at a Master Degree level (3 year, including 1 year for language program

 Teacher Training: for the academic year : Gov’t of Indonesia provide 5-10 scholar for teachers of Vocational and technical Schools and College in subject: ICT, Tourism, Arts and hospitability  Training : 1 scholar, training for Senior Official/lecturer at NUOL  Provide scholar for 1 teacher to study Indonesia Language  MOE, Lao PDR prepare and accept students from Indonesia to attend 1 month culture program in Lao PDR

 Malaysia provide the scholarship to Lao students, teachers and staff as researchers in Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral Degree every year  Prepare MOU and Minister of MOE Malaysia will invite Minister of MOE Lao PDR to sign the MOU in Malaysia soon  Cooperation in Education, Science and Cultural  Malaysia will support Lao PDR by provide the English teachers, ICT teachers to Lao Ministry of Education

 Cooperation in Education, Science and Cultural  Malaysia will support Lao PDR by provide the English teachers, ICT teachers to Lao Ministry of Education  Malaysia propose to invite the students of the National Art School from Lao PDR to show and visit Malaysia in June 2009

 Cooperation in Education  MOU, between Ministry of Education Lao PDR and Myanmar  Provide the scholarship for Lao PDR, mostly, for the Monetary

 MOU in the program of Exchange Cooperation in Education, between Ministry of Education Lao PDR and Philippines  Training and Seminar supported by SEAMEO INNOTECH  Provide scholarship for Bachelor, Master, Doctoral Degree supported by SEAMEO SEARCA

 Government of Singapore support Lao PDR in many Sectors, especially capacity building in English language and ICT  Government of Singapore - provide 1-2 scholarship for students at National University to study Bachelor degree, the selection is interviewed and depends on the standard of the ASEAN criteria - provide 3 scholarship for student at Upper Secondary Education Grade 5 to continue their study at Grade 6

 Donation scholarship by Dr. Goh Keng - 3 scholarship/ 2 years SEAMEO RELC:  Training: provide scholarship for upgrade the English teachers and the staff who work for ASEAN - provide 11 scholarship for Upgrade English teachers to train in English course

 Upgrade the teachers at National University by provide “Distance Education Programe” supported by CIDA, Canada  Training English program for 100 scholar for the staff who work for ASEAN, supported by Canada- Singapore  Seminar: SEAMEO RELC provide 1 scholar/year for the English teacher

 Cooperation in Education in Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) - Same as other new ASEAN member countries, Lao PDR got the supported from Singapore to upgrade the capacity building for the Lao Staff in all sectors such as: Administration and management, upgrade the capacity in using computer and English language

 In 2006, 16 staff in Education sector train in Lao-Singapore Center, in Vientiane and 22 staff train in Singapore  Cooperation in Private Education - Establish private school in Lao PDR - Establish Lao -Singapore Genetic Computer Center - Lao - Singapore Center ( for training English language)  Others: Seminar

 Bilateral MOU in Cooperation in Education between Ministry of Education, Vietnam and MOE, Lao PDR - 1 year Cooperation plan - 5 year Cooperation plan  Scholarship: - Short term and long term scholarship/ year for the students, teachers and staff to study Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degree

 Provide Vietnamese teachers to teach at lower, upper secondary schools, National University in Lao PDR  Establish School in Lao PDR ( for talented students)  Lao PDR provides 30 scholarship for Vietnamese staff and students for long term study in Lao PDR

 SEAMEO RETRAC - Seminar: conduct the Seminar for the Education Administrators in Lao PDR ( Lao PDR responsible for the cost of the trainee/participants and Ministry of Education in Vietnam or SEAMEO RETRAC responsible for the lecturers / trainers

 Bilateral MOU in Cooperation in Education between Ministry of Education, Thailand and MOE, Lao PDR  Gov’t of Thailand provide - Study Tour 5-10 scholar/year for Higher Education Staff - Study Tour for all sectors 90 scholar/year and for academic 12 scholar/year  Gov’t of Thailand provide the cooperation in curriculum development in pre-school, primary school, Lower and Upper secondary school

 Exchange students, teachers and researcher every year under the program of exchange the human resources and students in neighboring countries  Exchange students program for the students at Secondary level between Thailand -Lao PDR  Technical vocational College” Navamintharashini Moukdahan and Savannakhet Technical College ” to develop the curriculum in 6 branches

 Exchange program for students  Promote the Non- Formal Education, exchange the knowledge, skills for the community education, exchange the eradication technical staff in order to upgrade the education for the villagers  Exchange the teaching information in Science and Mathematics  Support the learning - teaching curriculum development ( all community, disable, talented students, Non-formal education)

 Support teaching-learning material for the library technical school  Scholarship for short and long term 20 scholar/year by THAICA  Training: 5 scholarship for the staff supported by Mekong Institute  Others..

 Australia Universities and Vientiane College - 40 Scholarship/ year for students, teachers and staff to study bachelor and Master Degree to study in Australia -15 scholar/year for 6 months training English language Course in country - Training for Interpreter and translator for the staff at MOFA, in Vientiane College, Lao PDR - 64 scholarship for provincial students to study at National University of Laos, in Vientiane

 Bilateral MOU in Cooperation in Education between Ministry of Education, Republic of China and MOE, Lao PDR  Gov’t of Republic of China provide short and long term scholarship - 44 scholarship for Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degree  30 scholar supported by Soochow University, Co-finance between University and Students parents - Soochow University will establish the University Branch in Lao PDR

 In , Republic of China provide 230 scholar/year (Bachelor and Master Degree)  5 year plan Cooperation in education, Lao PDR also provide Republic of China 20 Scholar 2008 to study in Lao PDR  Training in all sectors: 5 scholar for cooperation (MOE)  Seminar: - Exchange for secondary school principal - China- ASEAN Summer Workshop: 4 scholar/ year for upper secondary school

 Training : - ICT, English language, Education Administration, management  English language Center - Training for the teachers and staff  Lao-India Center - Train for the technical / vocational training Others..

 MOU in human resources development between MOE, Lao PDR and Japan  Scholarship for long term: -20 scholarship/year for Lao students to study Master Degree (JDS scholarship) -1-5 scholarship/year for Lao students to study Master / Doctoral Degree (Monboshu Scholarship) -Other sectors..  Short term Training: - 15 scholarship for staff at MOE  Support the school building for primary school

 Students Exchange program scholar/year for upper secondary school students - 4 scholar/ year for upper secondary school to study in Japan 1 year - 3 scholar / year as Home stay in Japan for 1 months for upper secondary school  Others..

 Bilateral MOU between MOE, Lao PDR and Republic of Korea  Short term training computer: - 20 to 25 scholar/years - Other training….  Long term: - 5 scholarship/ year

 170 Secondhand Computer  Cooperation with “Booyong” support Black Board for primary schools  Support text books for primary schools  Support Vocational Curriculum for Technical Vocational

 Scholarship: - 8 scholarship/year to study in New Zealand for Master Degree

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