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BUILD NETWORK TO CLOSE GENDER GAP - DPM
MELAKA (Malaysia), Oct 25 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin
called on academicians in Southeast Asia to build a network to craft the best
strategy to close the gender gab in Education and Special Education.
He stressed the benefits of exchanging information and innovative ideas in both
fields for knowledge enrichment.
"To achieve gender equality, Malaysia has focused on women, who today make up
more than 65 per cent of primary and secondary school teachers in the country,"
he said when opening the regional centre of the SEAMEO SEN (Southeast Asia
Ministers of Education Organisation on Special Education) here Monday.
He was simultaneously opening an extension to the Melaka Malay Women's Campus of
the Teachers Training Institute. The institute, originally called the Melaka
Malay Women's Collage, was inaugurated in 1935.
The new centre is to improve the professionalism of education managers, teachers
and other key individuals in Malaysia and other SEAMEO member countries.
Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said that every government in
Southeast Asia is committed to giving access to quality education to unreached
groups in the region to eradicate illiteracy fully by 2015.
"We face a challenging task because the education gab in Southeast Asia is not
merely between urban and rural populations or between genders," he said.
"It is also between children with special needs and normal children, and this
gab has caused disparity in providing access to quality education in this
region."
He said that a large number of children with special needs had little chance of
furthering their studies and rarely received after-school support.
Muhyiddin said the success of the new centre would depend greatly on the quality
of its research.
"As such, it should establish cooperation with regional and international
special education centres," he added.
In conjunction with the opening of the centre, SEAMEO is holding a seminar on a support programme for special education.
called on academicians in Southeast Asia to build a network to craft the best
strategy to close the gender gab in Education and Special Education.
He stressed the benefits of exchanging information and innovative ideas in both
fields for knowledge enrichment.
"To achieve gender equality, Malaysia has focused on women, who today make up
more than 65 per cent of primary and secondary school teachers in the country,"
he said when opening the regional centre of the SEAMEO SEN (Southeast Asia
Ministers of Education Organisation on Special Education) here Monday.
He was simultaneously opening an extension to the Melaka Malay Women's Campus of
the Teachers Training Institute. The institute, originally called the Melaka
Malay Women's Collage, was inaugurated in 1935.
The new centre is to improve the professionalism of education managers, teachers
and other key individuals in Malaysia and other SEAMEO member countries.
Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said that every government in
Southeast Asia is committed to giving access to quality education to unreached
groups in the region to eradicate illiteracy fully by 2015.
"We face a challenging task because the education gab in Southeast Asia is not
merely between urban and rural populations or between genders," he said.
"It is also between children with special needs and normal children, and this
gab has caused disparity in providing access to quality education in this
region."
He said that a large number of children with special needs had little chance of
furthering their studies and rarely received after-school support.
Muhyiddin said the success of the new centre would depend greatly on the quality
of its research.
"As such, it should establish cooperation with regional and international
special education centres," he added.
In conjunction with the opening of the centre, SEAMEO is holding a seminar on a support programme for special education.
