UK Experts Visit To Gain Insight Into Brunei's Education System
By Syed Rory Malai Hassan

Bandar Seri Begawan - The three-member delegation from UK's Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) who are in the country to assess the National Education System for the 21st Century (SPN21), yesterday went to several schools and higher educational institutions to learn more about the mechanism of SPN21 and its relevance to the development of education in the nation.

Their visit brought about a more informed and resourceful overview of the programme, which would allow the consultants to give a more comprehensive report of the relevance of the new system. The consultants, here to aid in the planning of reforms of the new system, yesterday visited the Science School, Berakas Secondary School and the Youth Development Centre to get a first-hand look at how our current education system works.

Tony Leney, Head of the ACA's International Unit, said that their visit is to assist the Ministry of Education in refining the new system which will help the ministry to identify and re-evaluate the new system, so that it may better benefit the students.

They have gone to various schools, institutions and educational facilities in the country to seek better understanding of the grassroots process of the education system and learn more about the students' needs, learning abilities, process and development.

To date, the consultants have visited the Sultan Saiful Rijal Technical College, Nakhoda Ragam Vocational School, Institute Technology Brunei, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, University Brunei Darussalam and St Andrew's School. Their visit to the schools and institutions yesterday allowed them to identify potential strategies in teacher-training and curriculum development for implementation in the SPN21.

The consultants' tasks in the programme involve strengthening the SPN21, and making its core and concurrent strategies more coherent. Their scope of work includes providing advice on effective educational reforms, particularly on general education, VTET at secondary and post secondary levels and educational opportunities for adults, to identify key or essential skills across the curriculum and to identify the learning outcomes of which high skills in language, foreign languages and mathematics are key components.

They will also be commenting on matters relating to the national framework and international benchmarking, and the imperatives for consultancy, based on their observations of the schools and institutions they visited.-- Courtesy of The Brunei Times

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