SOURCE: BERNAMA
PARIS, Nov 7 (Bernama) — Malaysia is willing to engage with the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) to execute the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 in the most efficient and effective manner.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Education Minister, said the engagement was not for the whole spectrum of the plan but in a certain sub-sectoral level of it.
“IIEP can come in to assist us not for planning anymore because we have planned it, but on how to execute those things in the most efficient and, of course as good as possible way so that we can see the results at the end of the day,” he said at a meeting with IIEP director Khalil Mahshi at the institute, here Wednesday.
Also present were Muhyiddin’s wife, Puan Sri Norainee Abdul Rahman, and Malaysian Ambassador to France Tan Sri Ismail Omar.
The IIEP, a centre for training and research specialised in educational planning and management, was created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 1963.
It is supported by grants from Unesco and by voluntary contributions from member states and others.
Muhyiddin said there were also possibilities of partnership and collaboration between IIEP and Institut Aminuddin Baki (IAB) in Pahang in certain areas especially in research and training.
“I would agree that we should raise the contributions, maybe US$50,000 (RM159,041) annually from US$5,000 (RM15,904) annually before this, but conditional upon IIEP collaborating with IAB closely,” he said.
Speaking to Malaysian journalists after the meeting, Mahshi said he was impressed with the efforts undertaken by the Education Ministry in order to develop quality education in the country.
“There is also a possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding on areas of collaboration, where we can provide our experience, but we also would like to learn from the experience of Malaysia especially in the educational sector,” he said.
– BERNAMA
