Time of Event
Day 1: 10:00 – 16:35 Singapore (11:00 – 17:35 Tokyo)
Day 2: 10:00 – 16:30 Singapore (11:00 – 17:30 Tokyo)
Summary
Quality education is critical for boosting human resources development, economic growth, and sustainable development, prompting many governments to invest heavily in education to promote their future competitiveness. Despite encouraging trends in public education investment and school completion in Southeast Asia, however, the learning outcomes gap remains significant.
There are multidimensional challenges to improving the quality of basic education and ensuring that all students acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills. While there are some cases of countries in the region and broader developing Asia successfully tackling these challenges, there are many other accounts of failure. Efforts to improve learning outcomes experienced a significant setback during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organized by ADBI, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, this conference featured new research papers on building basic education quality in Southeast Asia. ADB Chief Economist Albert Park and National Technology University’s Ng Pak Tee delivered keynote speeches. The Center for Global Development’s Justin Sandefur gave a special talk on education policy preferences in developing countries.
Objectives
- Highlight contemporary analyses on improving the quality of basic education across Southeast Asian countries
- Distill policy lessons from the region and possible ways forward
Target Participants
Education policy makers, researchers, and practitioners and interested members of the public
Output
- Enhanced understanding of basic education quality challenges and opportunities in Southeast Asia
- Identification of research-based policy solutions
- Research papers presented will be considered for publication in a journal special issue
Partners
- Asian Development Bank
- ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Event Presentations*
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Addressing Lost Learning and Learning Poverty in Asia |
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Quality of Basic Education: The Singapore Story |
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Understanding Education Policy Preferences: Surveys of Policymakers in 41 Countries |
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The Effects of Viet Nam’s Escuela Nueva Program on Learning Behaviors and Parental Engagement |
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Education Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand |
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Learning Continuity & Home-to-School Transition: Post-Covid Education Recovery in Malaysia |
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Leveraging parental engagement towards educational improvement in the Philippines |
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Universal kindergarten education and adolescent literacy: Evidence from the Philippines |
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Quality, Equity, Autonomy: Malaysia’s Education Reforms Examined |
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Making ‘Taman Baca’ Sustainable, Lessons Learned from Community-based Non-Formal Education in Remote Areas of Aceh |
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A Framework to Evaluate School Curriculum Quality: The Case of Viet Nam |
*Disclaimer: The views expressed in these presentations are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in these presentations and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.