1. Education Futures: Going for Gold
The Launch of SEAMEO College
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
20 March 2013, hrs
Grand Ballroom, Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
Education Futures: Going for Gold
Yongyuth Yuthavong
Former Minister of Science and Technology
Thailand

2. 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 

3. 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

4. The three components should interact
Modules
Research
Capacity strengthening

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Boutique
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10. 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.

11. Best wishes
for the success of
SEAMEO College