Organizer: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Description:

Quality education is critical for countries to build their human resource, support future economic growth and realize long-term development. Consequently, many governments have been investing heavily in education as part of their strategy to promote future competitiveness. Despite the encouraging trends in public education investments and school completion in Southeast Asian countries, however, the learning outcomes gap remains significant.

Given this backdrop, The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute are organizing a joint conference on the quality of basic education in Southeast Asia. The conference presentations will offer contemporary analyses and feasible lessons related to enhancing the delivery of quality education to pupils during their formative years.

The two-day-long event will have ten presentations covering Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Dr Albert Park, Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank, will deliver the keynote speech on Day 1. Dr Ng Pak Tee, Associate Professor at the National Technological University, will be the keynote speaker on Day 2. And Dr Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development, will deliver a special talk based on his recent survey experiments to understand education policy preferences in developing countries on Day 2.

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