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STRENGTHENING PRIVATE EDUCATION SERVICES
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- The Education National Key Economic Area
(NKEA) focuses on strengthening private education services sector by increasing
private consumption and investments as well as expanding education export.
According to the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) report by Pemandu
(Performance Management & Delivery Unit), the vision was to rebrand Malaysia
from a stopover location for education to a major education centre of choice and
pivotal hub in the global education network.
"We envision a 2020 where education is a big business that delivers
significant, widespread and sustained GNI impact, while raising standards and
widening access.
"Only then will Malaysia be able to develop the first-world talent base that it
need," said the report which was launched by Prime Minister Najib Razak here
Monday.
The Education NKEA was targeted to raise total gross national income (GNI) from
RM27.1 billion in 2009 to RM60.7 billion by 2020. (US$1=RM3.09)
As public sector growth was expected to be limited, the aim requires private
education sector to grow six-fold and that would need RM20 billion in funding
over the next 10 years, of which only six per cent constitutes new public
funding.
In achieving this, an additional 535,000 jobs will be created, with the majority
of them in professional and technical fields and to triple foreign student
enrolment from around 70,000 currently to 200,000 by 2020.
"Beyond the GNI impact, we envisage that the private education sector will have
a strong impact on our nation's socio-economic development, through multiple
education touch points.
"As such, we see the private education sector as playing a critical
complementary role to the public sector in delivering the education outcomes and
government objectives laid out in the National Key Results Area (NKRA) on
Education," the report said.
To deliver these targets, four education segments have been prioritised, based
on existing market size and potential for future growth: tertiary education
(both domestic and foreign students), technical education and vocational
training (TEVT), basic education (primary and secondary) and early child care
and education (ECCE).
A total of 13 entry point projects (EPP) have been developed across four
segments based on their GNI impact and potential to catalyse further business
opportunities and investments that are expected to raise overall education
standards (defined in terms of improved access, quality and equity), create
transformational rather that incremental change and deliver significant results
within a 10-year time frame.
These EPP fall into three themes - rapid scale-up initiatives including, scaling
up early childcare and education centres, improving early childcare and
education training centres, boosting international schools, expanding private
teachers' training, scaling up private skills training provision and expanding
international distance learning.
The report said that the government would need to encourage existing providers
to increase capacity, or make it easier for new providers to enter the market
and at the same time, need to maintain high quality standards and prevent
crowding out the existing providers.
Secondly, concentration and specialisation initiatives include building an
Islamic finance and business education discipline cluster, building a health
science education discipline cluster, building an advanced engineering, science
and innovation discipline cluster, building a hospitality and tourism discipline
cluster, launching EduCity at Iskandar Malaysia.
"One of our challenges is the wide variation in quality, particularly at the
tertiary level where industry linkages are critical. Best practice examples from
countries in comparable situations suggest that a way forward lies in the
development of integrated networks of institutions across one or more phases of
the education value chain," the report said.
Thirdly, demand generation initiatives must include championing Malaysia's
international education brand and introducing public-private partnerships in
basic education -- aimed to significantly increase individual willingness to pay
for high-quality course offerings as well as to export education by developing
Malaysia as a regional education hub.
There are significant opportunities across the education sector to
substantially increase individual willingness to pay for high-quality course
offerings as well as to export education by developing Malaysia as a regional
education hub.
The Education NKEA also outlined some critical targets and milestone within six
to 12 months to achieve the target to strengthen the private education services
sector such as off-take agreements with ECCE training centres signed, 1,000
additional seats in international schools created, gateway distance education
university with first intake of students established.
Other targets are disciplined clusters with first intake of students for Islamic
finance and business education, health services, advanced engineering and
hospitality and tourism established, two new institutions in EduCity at Iskandar
opened and also five new international offices for international marketing established.
(NKEA) focuses on strengthening private education services sector by increasing
private consumption and investments as well as expanding education export.
According to the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) report by Pemandu
(Performance Management & Delivery Unit), the vision was to rebrand Malaysia
from a stopover location for education to a major education centre of choice and
pivotal hub in the global education network.
"We envision a 2020 where education is a big business that delivers
significant, widespread and sustained GNI impact, while raising standards and
widening access.
"Only then will Malaysia be able to develop the first-world talent base that it
need," said the report which was launched by Prime Minister Najib Razak here
Monday.
The Education NKEA was targeted to raise total gross national income (GNI) from
RM27.1 billion in 2009 to RM60.7 billion by 2020. (US$1=RM3.09)
As public sector growth was expected to be limited, the aim requires private
education sector to grow six-fold and that would need RM20 billion in funding
over the next 10 years, of which only six per cent constitutes new public
funding.
In achieving this, an additional 535,000 jobs will be created, with the majority
of them in professional and technical fields and to triple foreign student
enrolment from around 70,000 currently to 200,000 by 2020.
"Beyond the GNI impact, we envisage that the private education sector will have
a strong impact on our nation's socio-economic development, through multiple
education touch points.
"As such, we see the private education sector as playing a critical
complementary role to the public sector in delivering the education outcomes and
government objectives laid out in the National Key Results Area (NKRA) on
Education," the report said.
To deliver these targets, four education segments have been prioritised, based
on existing market size and potential for future growth: tertiary education
(both domestic and foreign students), technical education and vocational
training (TEVT), basic education (primary and secondary) and early child care
and education (ECCE).
A total of 13 entry point projects (EPP) have been developed across four
segments based on their GNI impact and potential to catalyse further business
opportunities and investments that are expected to raise overall education
standards (defined in terms of improved access, quality and equity), create
transformational rather that incremental change and deliver significant results
within a 10-year time frame.
These EPP fall into three themes - rapid scale-up initiatives including, scaling
up early childcare and education centres, improving early childcare and
education training centres, boosting international schools, expanding private
teachers' training, scaling up private skills training provision and expanding
international distance learning.
The report said that the government would need to encourage existing providers
to increase capacity, or make it easier for new providers to enter the market
and at the same time, need to maintain high quality standards and prevent
crowding out the existing providers.
Secondly, concentration and specialisation initiatives include building an
Islamic finance and business education discipline cluster, building a health
science education discipline cluster, building an advanced engineering, science
and innovation discipline cluster, building a hospitality and tourism discipline
cluster, launching EduCity at Iskandar Malaysia.
"One of our challenges is the wide variation in quality, particularly at the
tertiary level where industry linkages are critical. Best practice examples from
countries in comparable situations suggest that a way forward lies in the
development of integrated networks of institutions across one or more phases of
the education value chain," the report said.
Thirdly, demand generation initiatives must include championing Malaysia's
international education brand and introducing public-private partnerships in
basic education -- aimed to significantly increase individual willingness to pay
for high-quality course offerings as well as to export education by developing
Malaysia as a regional education hub.
There are significant opportunities across the education sector to
substantially increase individual willingness to pay for high-quality course
offerings as well as to export education by developing Malaysia as a regional
education hub.
The Education NKEA also outlined some critical targets and milestone within six
to 12 months to achieve the target to strengthen the private education services
sector such as off-take agreements with ECCE training centres signed, 1,000
additional seats in international schools created, gateway distance education
university with first intake of students established.
Other targets are disciplined clusters with first intake of students for Islamic
finance and business education, health services, advanced engineering and
hospitality and tourism established, two new institutions in EduCity at Iskandar
opened and also five new international offices for international marketing established.
