Education for What and for Whom?

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

January 2013 EDITORIAL
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The federal government announced its master plan for education in September 2012. As was expected, the general goals sound fine at first glance while the larger problem of implementation – and credibility – remains.Let me take this opportunity, especially when our cover story by Wong Chin Huat this month is about new thinking in education, to add my thoughts to the subject of education.Education policymaking in new nations such as Malaysia is a complicated and conflictive process where different political...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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