Education Reforms Requires Cultural Reset

Chan Soon Seng, CEO, Teach For Malaysia

29-Aug-23 08:30

Education Reforms Requires Cultural Reset

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As we continue our Merdeka series on what Malaysia could be in the decades to come, we are taking a look at education as it is the bedrock upon which a country's future is built. CEO of Teach For Malaysia, Chan Soon Seng shares with us the perennial structural problems in the education sector, is decentralisation, the solution moving forward and his vision for the future.

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Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Philip See, Mark Tan

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Categories: education, government

Tags: school curriculum, education,

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