Order Ensures Compulsory Education For Children
By Ben Ng

Bandar Seri Begawan - An order has been put into action to ensure that all children between the ages of six and 15 are formally registered and are receiving appropriate education in schools.

In support of the nation's economic growth and stability, the Ministry of Education is taking proactive measures in reviewing and refining its education policies and practices to ensure the continual development and improvement that is consistent with its mission and objectives.

The Compulsory Education Order 2007 - one such measure - is the introduction of compulsory education in Brunei Darussalam that supports the 12-year education policy encased in the present National Education System.

According to the Ministry of Education, the order has received the "Royal Assent from His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei" on Nov 24, 2007 and has the main objective of ensuring that all children between the ages of six and 15 with satisfying conditions for receiving primary and lower secondary -education, are formally registered and received appropriate education in schools.

Since it commenced in November last year, all children born after January 1, 2002, who are citizens of Brunei and reside in Brunei - except for those granted exemptions are required by law to be registered at schools.

According to the Ministry of Education, failure to register "amounts to contravention of the 'Compulsory Education Order 2007' and renders each parent of such child liable to legal action".  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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