Technology Education Vital In Nation-Building
By Laila Rahman

Bandar Seri Begawan - The incorporation of vocational and technical education in future school curriculum is imperative in fulfilling the nation's needs to create an informed and knowledge-based society and to produce potential workers with generic skill and adaptability demanded by future employers.

Pengiran Datin Paduka Hajah Iviariam Re Pengiran Haji Matarsat, Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education said this during the opening ceremony of the seminar entitled ‘Towards the Incorporation of Vocational Technical Education in the Future Secondary School Curriculum’.

The seminar that will run until September S at the premises of the Sl AMED-VGCTECH Regional Centre is organised by the Curriculum Development Department at the Ministry of Education.

She added that technical or technology education which includes ICT education in the general school curriculum will help students build a strong foundation to further their studies at technical and vocational institutions as well as to some e .tent develop their potential for the world of work.

The presence of two facilitators from the Republic of Germany at the seminar would provide a golden opportunity for the participants especially the curriculum committee members to learn how to map out effective and practical course contents of the proposed curriculum and how it can be effectively and efficiently delivered and assessed, she said.

She said learning from the Germany's experience is appropriate and timely, for it has been regarded as a developed industrial nation for a long time; moreover, it has been renowned for `dual training' in its education system.

She urged the committee concerned to deliberate earnestly and seriously with their facilitators and participants to identify pertinent issues and to come up with substantive recommendations to pave the way for the development and delivery of a curriculum that caters to the needs of our students, our society and our nation in facing the challenges of giobalisation and uncertainties in the future.

Welcoming remarks were also delivered by Awang Haji Suhaila bin Hj Abdul Karim, Acting Director of the Curriculum Development Department. He said that the seminar is being attended by more than 50 participants consisting teachers, curriculum committee members and representatives of relevant government and non-government agencies.

Among the objectives of the seminar are to discuss and generate ideas concerning issues and imperatives associated with a `technology education' curriculum, its design and development and the associated resources and implementation requirements and to produce recommendations based on the summary of discussions which will be used as reference when drawing up an action plan for the development and implementation of the new curriculum. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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