Be bold, stick to the line

Dzameer Dzulkifli is a consultant with the Education Ministry of Indonesia and co-founder of Teach for Malaysia. He says we should embrace an even bolder, larger vision of transformation than the current blueprint, in order to unleash the potential of our education system and students.

THE world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and the Malaysian education system is at a critical juncture. In the past decade, we continued to make significant strides in expanding access to education, and we saw incrementally stronger student outcomes.

However, that progress is still far behind the aspirations laid out in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025, which aspired to be amongst the top third of countries in PISA. Today, our students continue to lag behind their international peers in key learning outcomes. The recent PISA 2022 results indicate that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has reset the past decade of progress.