3Rd High Officials Meeting on SEA-TVET “21St Century TVET in Southeast Asia: Advancing Towards Harmonisation and Internationalisation”
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Ministry of Education Malaysia REPORT (Part I: Main Report) 3rd High Officials Meeting on SEA-TVET “21st Century TVET in Southeast Asia: Advancing towards Harmonisation and Internationalisation” 23 – 25 May, 2017 Swiss-Garden Hotel and Residences Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The report was prepared by the SEAMEO Secretariat, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Malaysia and SEAMEO SEAMOLEC www.seameo.org http://seatvet.seameo.org/ Email: [email protected] 30 September 2017 Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 1 2. Background 3 3. Session Proceedings and Activities Highlights 5 • Day 1: May 23, 2017 • Opening Ceremony 5 • Session 1: Country Report from SEA-TVET 8 Regional Cooperation during 2015-2017 • Session 2: Presentation of TVET Regional Initiatives 17 for Endorsement and Information • Session 3: Strategies for TVET Transformation 22 and Advancement • Session 4: Bilateral/Networking Meeting 25 between Countries and Institutions • Day 2: May 24, 2017 • Session 5.1 & 6.1: High Official Round Table Meeting 26 • Session 5.2: Best Practices to Advance Quality at 28 TVET Institutions • Session 6.2: Best Practices to Advance Partnership at 33 TVET Institutions • Session 7: Sharing of Outcomes from the Bilateral 36 and Networking Meeting • Session 8: Synthesis and Ways Forward 38 • Closing Ceremony 39 • Day 3: May 25, 2017 • Study Visit 44 4. Appendix 45 A. Concept Note B. Programme C. List of Participants EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 3rd High Officials Meeting (HOM) on SEA-TVET “21st Century TVET in Southeast Asia: Advancing towards Harmonisation and Internationalisation” was held 23-25 May 2017 at the Swiss-Garden Hotel and Residences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia; and co-organised by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO). The meeting aimed to focus on the discussion and presentations that help the High Officials and policy makers to identify strategies and implementation mechanisms for advancing, harmonising and transforming TVET education to meet the 21st Century’s demands of the Southeast Asian region. The HOM was attended by approximately 180 participants, comprising high officials and country representative from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam; representatives from partner countries including Japan, China, and Germany; representatives of related Development Agencies and the SEAMEO Regional Centres; and policy makers and directors of TVET institutions from Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Thailand. The meeting commenced with the Opening Ceremony, initiated by Dr. Gatot Hari Priowirjanto, Director of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat (SEAMEO Secretariat) who delivered the Welcome Remarks, explaining the background and the objectives of the meeting. This was followed by the opening speech of the Honourable Senator Datuk Chong Sin Woon, Deputy Minister of Education II, Ministry of Education Malaysia, who stressed the importance of TVET in the 21st century, and the need of innovations and quality improvement in training of TVET to meet the challenges. After the Opening Ceremony, the session themed “Country Reports from SEA-TVET Regional Cooperation during 2015-2017” was started with the presentation on “SEA-TVET Programme and Regional Efforts for Mobility and Harmonisation”, which presented the SEA-TVET Plan 2016-2018 on Harmonisation and Internationalisation, and examined the challenges faced. This session was to update the high officials on the regional cooperation, progress of mobility of teachers and students during 2016-2017 and the future plan in promoting harmonisation and mobility. The country presenters included Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition, the Southeast Asian TVET partners presented their plan for promoting quality of TVET education in Southeast Asia. In the afternoon, there were three sessions: firstly, the Presentation of TVET Regional Initiatives for Endorsement and Information. Eleven regional initiatives for TVET development from SEAMEO and other international regional development agencies were presented for endorsement and information. After that, five speakers who were high official responsible for TVET from Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia share the country best practices on strategies for TVET transformation and advancement in different aspects in the session themed “Strategies for TVET Transformation and Advancement”. The last session of the first day of the meeting was the Bilateral/Networking Meeting between Countries and Institutions, which provided an opportunity for institutions or organization to explore possible areas of collaboration and to strengthen or renew partnership. 1 | P a g e On the second day, the High Officials Round Table Meeting was conducted as a closed and informal session among heads of delegations and official representatives from Ministries/Departments of Education and related ministries of Southeast Asian countries and representatives from the SEAMEO Units. A concurrent session was held with presentations by TVET institutions on “Best Practices to Advance Quality at TVET Institutions”. Speakers from the TVET institutions from Malaysia, Indonesia, and GIZ-RECOTVET shared their practical strategies on how to improve the quality of TVET learners, curriculum and teaching pedagogies at the institutional level to meet the demands of the 21st Century. This was followed by another concurrent session themed “Best Practices to Advance Partnership at TVET Institutions with the aim to share the practical strategies on how to improve and strengthen collaboration and partnership with industrial partners that will lead to improve competencies of TVET learners. The TVET institutions in Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines highlighted the practical innovative strategies for advancing partnership with industry that can be implemented at institutional level. In the afternoon of the second day, the outcome from the bilateral meeting organized on 23 May was presented in the session “Sharing of Outcomes from the Bilateral and Networking Meeting”. During bilateral meeting, 14 institutions and organisations met to discuss and have agreed on 16 collaborations. There were representatives at country level from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Lao PDR participated in the bilateral meeting. In addition, regional organisations and development agencies also participated in the meeting. In the last session themed “Synthesis and Ways Forward”, Dr. Paryono presented and highlighted the reports from the first three sessions, which representatives of countries or institutions presented their strategies in enhancing regional cooperation and advancing the quality of TVET. In the Closing Ceremony, Dr. Gatot Hari Priowirjanto presented the Results and Agreements from the High Officials Round Table Meeting. There were 11 TVET initiatives being presented in the session 2 to be reviewed by the High Officials. Four major Regional Policy recommendations were also generated in the meeting, namely: 1) mapping of national competency among the Southeast Asian countries to promote harmonisation; 2) improvement of Student and Teacher Mobility; 3) expansion of regional roadmap; and 4) expansion of TVET cooperation to other Regions. Other regional recommendations included development of mutual recognition among TVET and apply the existing documents, integration of industry 4.0 in TVET, and the study on “Future Work Forecast”. Lastly, the Closing Speech of the Honourable Dato’ P Kamalanathan a/l Panchanathan wrapped up the two-day meeting. 2 | P a g e BACKGROUND Since the launch of ASEAN integration in 2015, all Southeast Asian countries have positioned Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the mainstream of education systems and setting it as a priority in their education agenda in view of the fact that this type of education plays an important role in the socio-economic development of a nation (Paryono 2013). In addition, TVET has been identified as one of the seven priority areas in education in Southeast Asia, which were agreed at the Strategic Dialogue of Education Ministers (SDEM) meeting in September 2014. In response to the needs of the region, the 1st High Officials Meeting (HOM) on SEATVET was hosted by the Office of the Vocational Education Commission, Ministry of Education Thailand in August 2015 in Chiangmai. This was held under the theme: “Working Together towards Harmonisation and Internationalisation of TVET in Southeast Asia”. The “Chiang Mai Joint Statement on Harmonisation and Internationalisation of TVET in Southeast Asia” was officially announced as the regional policy directions that emerged from the TVET High Officials Round Table Meeting. Since 2015, various new national and regional initiatives in TVET have been created and co- developed among the Southeast Asian countries, and Development Agencies to improve the quality of TVET, promote partnerships among TVET institutions, strengthen involvement of industries, leverage capacity of TVET personnel, harmonise TVET curriculum among participating countries, and promote the mobility of skilled workers, teachers and students. Various activities have been organised at all levels of TVET personnel such as policy makers, TVET school/college leaders, researchers, teachers and students. In May 2016, the 2nd High Officials Meeting on SEA-TVET under the