Education
From The Report: Brunei Darussalam 2014
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The Ministry of Education’s plan for the 2012-17 period includes three focus areas: teaching and learning excellence; professionalism and accountability; and efficiency and innovation, all bolstered by 14 strategic objectives and 18 key performance indicators. Complementing the transformation of its basic education system is an equally ambitious overhaul of tertiary institutions designed to combat unemployment across a broad range of sectors and skill sets. The sector benefits from substantial funding. In the 2014/15 budget, for example, the Ministry of Education received the second-largest allocation of any state entity at $604.5m or 13% of the total.

This chapter contains an interview with Pehin Dato Abu Bakar Apong, Minister of Education.

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Overview

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The Sultanate’s long-term strategic vision of a diversified, knowledge-based economy depends heavily on how well the education system can prepare the country’s future business leaders for the rapidly evolving and increasingly integrated global market. Preparing to build on its already solid foundation of core academic skills, Brunei Darussalam is revamping its entire educational model in a bid to provide the next generation of students with the tools needed to be competitive in the 21st century.…

Analysis

Nuts and bolts: Technical and vocational education is set to get a major reboot
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Complementing the broader restructuring of the primary education system to redirect its focus towards meeting the needs of a modern, knowledge-based economy is a separate reboot of the technical and vocational education subsector (TVE). Given its importance in reducing unemployment and placing more Bruneians in key growth industries, the overhaul of the TVE subsector is a key component of both the National Education System for the 21st Century Plan (as one of its the three core priorities) and Wawasan…

Interview

OBG talks to Pehin Dato Abu Bakar Apong, Minister of Education
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Interview: Pehin Dato Abu Bakar Apong How is the use of technology in the classroom being promoted through initiatives such as e-Hijrah? PEHIN DATO ABU BAKAR APONG: The e-Hijrah scheme is one of seven programmes that the Ministry of Education (MoE) has outlined as areas of focus toward the achievement of the National Education System for the 21st Century (SPN21). These projects, e-Hijrah included, were identified through extensive research as well as dialogue with various players and stakeholders…