Education in South-East Asia: Disruptions Are Happily at Hand
June 2018 FEATURE
The first Asean-Australia Education Dialogue was held in Penang in March this year. Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng, Executive Director of Penang Institute, presented the keynote speech, reproduced here.Dato' Dr Ooi Kee Beng.I am very happy that the first Asean-Australia Education Dialogue (AAED) is held here in Penang, my hometown. We like to think of Penang as the spot in South-East Asia where much of what we today recognize as “Modernity” first landed. This happened in 1786, 16 years after...
