ASEAN Education Ministers to meet in Philippines

Education ministers from the ASEAN will have a meeting in Cebu in Philippines later this month to talk on the education fields in this region.

“Cambodian delegation will be led by Im Sothy, education minister and we will focus on education fields in general and more details than these we will tell after our delegation from the meeting,” Sim Bora, personal advisor to education ministers told the SEAN Weekly by phone earlier this week. He also will accompany the Cambodian delegation to join the meeting.

“At the meeting, it will have some recommendations this year on the education fields in this region and what is going on that we need to do for next year and we will talk on the matters of education to each other among other partners in region as well as cooperation,” he said. ASEAN will create ASEAN community in 2015 and now they are on the way forward to integrate the region for prosperity of this region.

This city in Cebu will be the venue of the joint annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Education Ministers (ASED) January 26-30 and the meeting organized by the Philippine government through the Department of Education (DepEd), the top-level 45th SEAMEC conference and 5th ASEAN Education Ministers meeting will be held at the Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa,” the report in Philippines said.
The four-day meetings will be attend by delegations of the 11 member-countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) and ASEAN, namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam,” it added.
“It also will be to participate in the conference like delegations of the SEAMEO associate members, countries supporting SEAMEO programs and activities, donor organizations and agencies, and representatives of the education sector in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world,” the reports noted.
The SEAMEC is the highest policymaking body of SEAMEO, an intergovernmental treaty organization founded in 1965 to foster cooperation among Southeast Asian nations in the fields of education, science, and culture. The council is composed of the education ministers and secretaries of the SEAMEO countries.
Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli A. Lapus represents the Philippines in the Council, currently headed by Thailand’s Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit.
The 45th SEAMEO conference and 5th ASED meeting are organized by the Philippine government through DepEd, in collaboration with the Thailand-based SEAMEO Secretariat (SEAMES) and Philippine government agencies such as the Departments of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Transportation and Communication (DoTC), Tourism (DoT), and Interior and Local Governement (DILG), Bureau of Customs, and Philippine National Police. The Cebu provincial government and Lapu-Lapu City government are also involved in organizing the event.
Earlier, Secretary Lapus stressed that the decision to hold both events in the country is a clear vote of confidence on the reforms and innovations introduced by the Philippine Government, through the Department of Education. “Their forthcoming visit to the country shows that we have best practices to share with the international community. Our neighbors in the region have taken notice of the strides we have made in improving access to and quality of basic education in at least, the last three years.” He said in reports.
The Philippines, which works closely with SEAMEO and its 15 regional centers across the region, has been an active SEAMEO member since the latter’s founding in 1965. It is host to three of the organization’s most respected regional centers, the SEAMEO INNOTECH (Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology) in Diliman, Quezon City, SEAMEO SEARCA (Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Los Baños, Laguna and SEAMEO TROPMED (Tropical Medicine) in the University of the Philippines, Manila campus. (SEAMEO SEARCA News).
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