SEAMEO Symposium On 'SEAMEO Centres: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow' And The Launch Of SEAMEO CARES Toolkit On Remote Teaching And Learning (Virtual)

Nov 25, 2021

A SEAMEO Symposium on ‘SEAMEO Centres: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow’, and the launch of SEAMEO CARES Toolkit on Remote Teaching and Learning, organised by SEAMEO Secretariat, were held on Thursday, 25 November 2021, with more than 6,700 participants via online Zoom platform and Live on SEAMEO YouTube Channel.


The symposium was held to celebrate SEAMEO's 56th Anniversary and aimed to present the most remarkable achievements and future plans of SEAMEO Regional Centres for the development of education, science and culture for the Southeast Asian countries.

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SEAMEO VOCTECH (SV) was represented by the Centre Director, Mr Alias Haji Abu Bakar as one of the speakers in Panel 1 on SEAMEO Centres: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for Education. He highlighted on the strong partnership with GIZ-RECOTVET on SEA-VET.Net platform, a portal that provides the best practices, empirical studies as well as innovations in the area of TVET, and the success of SV flagship programmes, Training of Trainers and Training of Assessors Certification Programme with Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) of up to 98%, where participants were able to deliver their own training with quality training competencies at their own centre/institution.


In addition, during the symposium, SV presented a video which enumerated other initiatives, projects and collaborations such as the e-learning platform, ASEAN Workplan Outcome 4, which is to enhance access to quality initial and continuing TVET in response to the demands of the changing labour market, collaboration with ASEAN TVET Council (ATC) that will pave the way in advancing TVET in the region, collaboration with CHINA-ASEAN Education Cooperation for cross-country partnership programmes, and SEAMEO VOCTECH Office at Wuxi Institute of Technology for the Teachers Capacity Building Programme, along with high impact research projects with Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET), Coventry University and GIZ-ASEAN.


Looking forward, SV has recently forged a partnership with Labtech Technology for hands-on virtual simulation training software, and with ADE Finland on AR and VR Technology integration in SV’s training programmes. SV is currently proposing and preparing to embark on a ground- breaking research project to investigate IR 4.0 Readiness for TVET Institutions in ASEAN.