Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia Issues and Challenges

196 Index

drop-out rate
for Orang Asli children, 149
primary school, 145
in rural and urban government
schools, 148

E
Early Intervention Reading and
Writing Class, 157
Educate A Child programme, 163
Education Act (1961), 41, 155
Education Act (1996), 23–24
educational language policy, in
Malaysia, 37, 44, 49
Education Bill (1996), 44
Education Blueprints, 106–107
education ethos, 167–68, 186
Education For All (EFA), 173
Education Ordinance (1952), 21
education systems, in Southeast Asia,
1–2
Eighth Higher Education National
Development Plan, 64
English language
in China, 37
English Language Syllabus (2010), 30
as “form of cultural capital”, 3
global spread of, 7–8
in Malaysia, 8, 20–26, 28–29, 31
medium of instruction, 4, 23–24
in Singapore, 3, 7, 15–20, 26–27,
29–30
valorization of, 4
English-medium education, 18, 42–47
“English programme”, 72, 76, 77
enrolment, Malaysian higher
education, 91–92

F
Fenn-Wu Report, 16, 21
Fifteen Years First Long-Range Plan
on Higher Education, 63

financial assistance, to students,

95–97

First Long-Range Plan of Thailand

Higher Education, 60, 64

First Malaysia Plan (1966–70), 142

first-order changes, 60

five-year transformation plan

(2013–18), 164n7

foreign direct investments (FDIs), 42

foreign language programme, 71, 72

Framework for Social and Economic

Reform (FESR), 178–80

G

Goh Chok Tong, 19

Goh Report (1979), 18

government reforms, education

sector, 11–12

Graduate Employment Management

Scheme, 103

Gred Purata Sekolah (GPS), 152

gross national income (GNI), 86

H

“Hari Bertemu Pelanggan”, 158

Higher Education Fund Corporation,

97

higher education, in Malaysia.

See Malaysian higher education

higher education institutions (HEIs),

84, 89, 108

Higher Education Student Loan

Fund, 87

hluttaw, in Myanmar, 168, 182

Humana Child Aid Society Sabah,

158–60

Human Development Index, 173

I

inclusive education programmes, 157

Individual Education Plans (IEPs),

160