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Recent Reforms and Future Orientation

Curriculums Development: 
The main purposes of curriculum reform are:

·         to improve students’ competencies by building up their knowledge of the surrounding environment;

·         to adapt the current situation of the education system to the prevailing trend; and

·         to cut down wastage within the education system, i.e. to reduce repetition and drop-out rates. 

Although there has been no systematic research on students’ competencies conducted after the implementation of the new curriculum, the preliminary findings of recent surveys suggest that the new curriculum is more comprehensive.  However, it requires teachers to invest more energy in their lesson preparation and teaching methodologies.

The content of the new curriculum will inspire students to better understand their surrounding environment, apply methods of problem-solving and enrich their spirit of innovation. Student-centered and other participatory methods are encouraged, through which students can exchange their views on the topics they learn, demonstrate their abilities in either small or big groups and put their perceptions into concrete actions. The teacher plays the role of facilitator, team leader, or resource person and is ready to improve and adjust to the situation and give students advice on practical solutions.  

Staff Development

In line with the process of curriculum reform, the Ministry is also concerned with staff development in order to prepare the ground for the decentralization of the education administration.  These efforts are aimed at delegating more authority to lower levels, especially education administrators at grass-roots level, so that they are capable of completing tasks assigned by the Ministry and taking responsibility for the Ministry.  Each level of authority, down to school level, will slowly adapt to this new trend while the Ministry will continue to develop education policies and policy objectives for each sub-sector, issue instructions, disseminate resources and monitor the work done by local administrative units.

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