| Lyna Mohamad |
WE ARE living in a world without boundaries. In order to meet the realities of the 21st Century worldwide economy and sustain Southeast Asia’s competitive edge into the future, we need students who are ready and prepared to strive not only with their local peers, but also with students from all across the world for the professions of tomorrow.
As of 2014, regionally, there were 646,641 schools, 148,034,376 students, and 7,901,509 teachers, which are inclusive of the pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, secondary, technical, vocational and tertiary education as recorded in the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) database on education.
This was disclosed by Legislative Council member and Director and Principal Architect of Eco Bumi Arkitek YB Siti Rozaimeriyanty binti Dato Seri Laila Jasa Haji Abdul Rahman. She added that the numbers will increase annually and bring forth the need and importance of benchmarking in our growing and evolving educational systems.
YB Siti Rozaimeriyanty made these remarks at the closing ceremony of the Regional Training Programme on Benchmarking Education Institutional Practices and Performances Through A Comparative Study, which she officiated yesterday at SEAMEO Regional Centre for Vocational and Technical Education and Training (Voctech).
“Benchmarking is an approach that not only allows the education authorities to identify where it stands on the global scale, but most importantly it offers an opportunity to improve and measure this improvement.”
Benchmarking also enables the exchange of practices and thoughts between implementers and teachers at an individual school level and allows authorities or ministries to recognise and help develop better education systems.
“If benchmarking is to be practised in individual schools, then it will enable each school to know where it stands locally and regionally, and can be an important and useful data and information for the implementers, schools, teachers, parents and pupils,” she added.
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