By Zareef Muzammil
SHAH ALAM, April 11 — The Selangor government has developed a new strategy to improve the state's education ecosystem in line with the First Selangor Plan (RS-1).
Menteri Besar Dato' Seri Amirudin Shari said the restructuring is necessary to make the sector's management more effective, efficient, and competitive.
He said that the initiative would also address concerns facing the people, such as the cost of living, business and employment prospects, and meeting the state's and the country's security demands.
“We want to reorganise education to ensure that the programmes offered are truly beneficial and reach the direction that has been set.
“Secondly, following the tabling of the RS-, there are some new focuses. Perhaps the educational content needs to be improved,” he said after officiating the Selangor Education Strategic Planning Workshop at the Selangor Public Library Corporation (PPAS), here yesterday.
Also present were Yayasan Selangor chief executive officer Eddie Ahmad Khodzali and PPAS director Datin Paduka Mastura Muhammad.
Meanwhile, Amirudin said that the workshop, which brought together 20 state and Federal government agencies, will run for two months until May to reorganise the function of education.
“After this, there will certainly be a new orientation (in the education sector). It's time for us to review the priorities after Covid-19,” he said.
About 100 stakeholders and stakeholders were involved in the workshop organised by Yayasan Selangor, themed ‘Building the Institutional Landscape and Ecosystem of Selangor State Education’.
The workshop brought together agencies from six educational clusters, namely primary and secondary education, higher education, the Smart Selangor Technical Skills and Expertise Initiative (Iktisass) or the Technical and Vocational Training Programme (TVET).
Yayasan Selangor stated that workshop also include agencies involved in implementing programmes for preschool education, senior citizens, people with disabilities (OKU), education support and education sponsorship funds
The agency said that the workshop is held in three series to realign the state’s educational programmes, in line with the RS-1 and Malaysia Madani.
