Strategic Themes

The Ministry of Education subscribes to three strategic themes: Professional, Accountable and Efficient Organisation, Teaching and Learning Excellence, and Quality Education.
These themes are integral parts of each and every department, division and unit within the Ministry of Education. These tie them together to achieve commonThe Ministry of Education subscribes to three strategic themes: Professional, Accountable and Efficient Organisation, Teaching and Learning Excellence, and Quality goals. The diagram shows the co-existence of these themes, each playing an important and inseparable role. Each theme contains a set of achievable aims.

Theme I: Professional Accountable and Efficient Organisation

Accountability

• to ensure that our organisations and educational institutions including schools remain accountable to stakeholders
• to be accountable for all learning outcomes
• to evaluate effectiveness in implementing national policies, school policies and programmes through the use of school appraisal as an accountability exercise

Internal process

• To have effective governance which is transparent and accountable
• To provide resources, services and support for teaching and learning excellence School Administrators and Teachers
• School administrators as transformational and instructional leaders
• Teachers have appropriate knowledge of the significance of the teaching profession
  and teacher’s role i.e. coaching, mentoring, guiding and facilitating learning in the
  classroom and beyond

Theme II: Quality Education

 
Holistic education

• to provide all-round development of the individual
• to provide opportunities to enhance individual strengths and abilities
• to provide students with a well-balanced education which allows them to draw from a wide range of knowledge areas and learning experiences

Curriculum

• Re-structure the curriculum to bring it in line with 21st Century needs
• Critical skills for 21st century are Mathematics, Science, Languages and ICT
• Emphasis on the development of students’ study skills and values education
• students to become more resourceful and responsible members of society, and to
  master the challenges of a global, knowledge-based economy
• Entrepreneurial skills, self-directed learning for lifelong learning and communication
  skills are equally important

Sixteen indicators on the quality of school education that we subscribe to:

• Indicators on attainment
  - Mathematics
  - Reading
  - Science
  - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  - Foreign languages
  - Learning to learn
  - Civics

• Indicators on success and transition
  - Dropout rates
  - Completion of upper secondary education
  - Participation in tertiary education

• Indicators on monitoring of education
  - Evaluation and steering of school education
  - Parental participation

• Indicators on resources and structures
  - Education and training of teachers
  - Participation in pre-primary education
  - Number of students per computer
  - Educational expenditure per student

[Source: EUROPEAN REPORT ON THE QUALITY OF SCHOOL
EDUCATION (2000)]

Theme III: Teaching and Learning Excellence

Benchmarking

• schools to benchmark educational capabilities and outputs with those comparable schools. This serves to raise the profile of schools and further enhance the image of our education system.

Teaching & Learning Excellence

• employ new teaching styles, encourage inquiry learning and cooperative learning develop and enhance teaching materials
• use appropriate learning programme and pedagogical tools to engage and motivate students in their learning

IT

• IT infrastructure: provide connectivity and Internet access
• ensure quality and equity of access for all
• provide a wide range of quality resources to support teaching and learning
• Evaluate and select software that matches