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The governing body of the Institute is the IBE council, composed of 12 representatives from Member States designated by UNESCO's General Conference, for four year office terms. The council's role is to approve the IBE's draft programme and budget for each biennium for submission to the General Conference, as well as to ensure consistent and complementary activities in line with the education sector's strategy and programmes.

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Malaysia’s support to the IBE on strengthening curricula for girls in Africa and Asia and the Pacific

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Malaysia’s support to the IBE on strengthening curricula for girls in Africa and Asia and the Pacific

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin visited the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva to mark the launching of a joint UNESCO-IBE and Malaysia project. Speaking to an international audience, he used the event to emphasize the role STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education plays in transforming Malaysia into a high income and advanced economic nation.
Launching ceremony at IBE with the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
During the event, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia officially announced Malaysia's financial and technical support to the IBE for the joint project on Strengthening STEM for girls in Africa and Asia Pacific, involving Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Indonesia. In this area, the success of Malaysia is outstanding: in the country women constitute more than half of the student population in higher education for technology, as well as a high percentage of the professional ICT sector.

Our jobs are really fundamentally about changing people's lives to enable them to exercise fully the right to education; in this particular case, the right of women and girls to have good quality STEM education. We are talking about almost half of the world's population and we cannot leave out their contribution to development nor their optimal benefiting from that development. If we are not optimistic about the future, then why are we here?

As the UNESCO global Centre of Excellence in Curriculum, the IBE will collaborate with Malaysian expertise to strengthen STEM curricula, teacher education and assessment for girls and women in Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The project will increase female knowledge and engagement in STEM through the creation of gender-responsive STEM education and strengthen capacities for the implementation of gender-responsive STEM curricula in the four beneficiary countries.

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Malaysia's support to the IBE on strengthening curricula for girls in Africa and Asia and the Pacific

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin visited the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva to mark the launching of a joint UNESCO-IBE and Malaysia project. Speaking to an international audience, he used the event to emphasize the role STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education plays in transforming Malaysia into a high income and advanced economic nation.

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Launching ceremony at IBE with the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

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Launching ceremony at IBE with the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

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Geneva: 15 April 2015

During the event, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia officially announced Malaysia's financial and technical support to the IBE for the joint project on Strengthening STEM for girls in Africa and Asia Pacific, involving Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Indonesia. In this area, the success of Malaysia is outstanding: in the country women constitute more than half of the student population in higher education for technology, as well as a high percentage of the professional ICT sector.

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Launching ceremony at IBE with the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

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Geneva: 15 April 2015 During the event, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia officially announced Malaysia's financial and technical support to the IBE for the joint project on Strengthening STEM for girls in Africa and Asia Pacific, involving Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Indonesia.

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Kick off meeting for the joint IBE-Malaysia project on STEM curricula

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Kick off meeting for the joint IBE-Malaysia project on STEM curricula

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During a mission to Malaysia, IBE Programme specialist Renato Opertti held a series of meetings with staff from the Ministry of Education and the Curriculum Development Division of Malaysia as well as with the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) to discuss and develop strategies for the implementation of the Project "Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa and Asia and the Pacific (Phase I)" supported by the Malaysia-UNESCO Cooperation Programme (MUCP) Malaysia Funds-In-Trust.

Through this project, the IBE further intends to foster south-south cooperation, where Malaysia will share its expertise on the inclusion of girls into the STEM field.

School visit in Putrajaya
The IBE also had the opportunity to visit a girls' boarding secondary school in Putrajaya - considered as a gifted prestigious high performance school - in order to learn more about girls' participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. In total, the school has 870 students, from ages 13 to 17, and a staff of 75 teachers. The school schedule is from 7.30 to 16.30, and the instruction language is a mixture of Malay and English. In addition to English, students have to select another language from Arabic, Chinese, French and Japanese. The students are selected based on their school achievements in primary education and their performance in the national examination taken at the end of primary school, and the representation is quite heterogeneous with regard to the social profile.

In addition to the national curricula common to all schools, this school's niches are music (orchestra), sports (basketball/hockey) and research development in science, implemented as extra-curricular activities. In order to facilitate the use of ICT to support science projects, the school has high-speed internet access. The school also has a UNESCO Club of Science. Within the extra-curricular activities, the school - with the cooperation of national public agencies (including universities) - selected a diverse range of projects for implementation which were brainstormed and proposed by the students themselves. The students presented a series of project innovations, among them: Eco-Wall Simple Heat Insulator to turn agriculture waste into valuable products; Cassava Green Paper to explore the potential of cassava to produce alternative paper; MLX Elaesi (MLX functions as an oil absorber); Darth Walzer to produce a robot to paint walls, and also an Eco-Wall to slow down noise from outside. During a conversation with a group of students they expressed a diverse range of interests about their motivation to learn, their experience of group work, their science projects, and future projects they hope to study in higher education.

Seri Puteri is one of many UNESCO Associated School Project Network (ASPnet) schools in Malaysia and has also established its UNESCO Club to promote understanding, encourage civic awareness as well as environmental awareness.
To learn more about the school: http://www.seriputeri.edu.my/v1/

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Kick off meeting for the joint IBE-Malaysia project on STEM curricula

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During a mission to Malaysia, IBE Programme specialist Renato Opertti held a series of meetings with staff from the Ministry of Education and the Curriculum Development Division of Malaysia as well as with the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) to discuss and develop strategies for the implementation of the Project "Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa and Asia and the Pacific (Phase I)" supported by the Malaysia-UNESCO Cooperation Programme (MUCP) Malaysia Funds-In-Trust.

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Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific

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Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific

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The objective of the workshop was to share experiences on female participation in STEM in different cultural and social contexts as well as to develop country roadmap an intervention to mainstream gender sensitive STEM education into the national policies and the curriculum. During the three days, the Malaysian counterparts shared their expertise in developing STEM policies and a repertoire of strategies to attract girls in the STEM field. In Malaysia, girls outnumber boys in science studies. Likewise, Dr Florence Tobo Lobé, the Director of the Rubisadt Fondation from Cameroon, insisted on the need to change mindsets and cultural perceptions with regard to the participation of girls in STEM. She outlined a series of remedial strategies to address the gender gap in STEM, as demonstrated by the Rubisadt Fondation.

In the morning of the first day, the IBE referred to the positioning of curriculum and learning within Education 2030. Likewise, UNESCO-Bangkok shared the main findings of the study carried out in Asia and the Pacific " A complex formula. Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia". In the afternoon, Malaysian experts shared their experience with regard to the triad policy-curriculum-pedagogy in fostering STEM education. The programme continued with high-school students from the high performing girl school SMK (P) St. George (Penang, Malaysia) who were invited to share their personal experience and perception of what it means to be a female learner who wants to pursue a STEM career.

On the second day, workshop participants visited the school SMK (P) St. George. Conversations with the principal and the teachers, and classroom observations led to a cogent reflection among the different stakeholders on different strategies to integrate STEM education through the curriculum and to ensure the real-life connections (application of knowledge). In the afternoon, focal points from Cambodia, Indonesia and Kenya shared the findings of their situational analysis carried out during the last six months. Their studies revealed the need to make the case for STEM policies within the processes of curriculum renewal and development.

On the third day, country focal points elaborated their respective roadmap that will lead to field interventions during the following months, supported by Malaysia counterparts and the IBE. Country interventions are embedded in Education 2030, and in particular refer to the relevance of STEM as a laying foundation of sustainable, inclusive, and fair development.

The IBE-UNESCO emphasizes south-south cooperation and the sharing of knowledge across regions. Malaysia expertise on STEM education is a clear example on how countries can benefit from each other.

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Mainstreaming gender sensitive STEM education into national policies and the curriculum

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The Malaysia/IBE-UNESCO project "Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific" carried out a three-day Needs Assessment Workshop on Monday 18 January 2016, hosted by SEAMEO-RECSAM, Penang, Malaysia. The workshop gathered nearly 40 experts in STEM education and related issues, policy planning, curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education from Cambodia, Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, UNESCO Bangkok Office and IBE-UNESCO.

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Needs assessment workshop for strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa and Asia

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Needs assessment workshop for strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa and Asia

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The Malaysia/IBE-UNESCO project "Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific" carried out a three-day Needs Assessment Workshop on Monday 18 January 2016, hosted by SEAMEO-RECSAM, Penang, Malaysia.

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The workshop gathered nearly 40 experts in STEM education and related issues, policy planning, curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education from Cambodia, Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, UNESCO Bangkok Office and IBE-UNESCO.

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Needs assessment workshop for strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa and Asia

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The Malaysia/IBE-UNESCO project "Strengthening STEM curricula for girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific" carried out a three-day Needs Assessment Workshop on Monday 18 January 2016, hosted by SEAMEO-RECSAM, Penang, Malaysia. Publication date The workshop gathered nearly 40 experts in STEM education and related issues, policy planning, curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education from Cambodia, Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, UNESCO Bangkok Office and IBE-UNESCO.

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Policy dialogue workshop to foster female participation in STEM education

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Policy dialogue workshop to foster female participation in STEM education

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IBE engages in policy dialogue to involve Cambodian girls and women in STEM education

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IBE engages in policy dialogue to involve Cambodian girls and women in STEM education

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IBE/Malaysia project: "Strengthening STEM Curricula for Girls in Africa, Asia and the Pacific"

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