Dr Amin Senin to chair NEAC, says Fadhlina

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Dr Amin Senin has been chosen to chair the National Education Advisory Council (NEAC).

The former Education director-general was one of nine chosen by Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek to head the council that will serve from 2023 to 2025.

Fadhlina said his vast experience in the sector, combined with the knowledge of the eight other members, would be able to help her steer the country’s education with their ideas.

"This will pave the way towards reform, integration and democratisation of education," she said during the minister’s annual mandate and brief to the ministry staff on Thursday (Jan 19).

His deputy was International Islamic University Malaysia information and technology professor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Fauzan Noordin.

The other members were former NEAC member Prof Dr Omar Bin Yaakob, former Institut Aminuddin Baki director Datuk Dr Mehander Singh Nahar Singh, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL) president and vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Inayah Ya’akub, Alumni Association Of Islamic Education manager Mohd Abd Aziz Mahmud, National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) president Aminuddin Awang, former Excellent Mathematics Teacher and teacher trainer Rusilawati Mohd Salleh and former SMK St Mary, Kuala Lumpur, principal Chee Poh Kiem.

Fadhlina said the council would help the minister and the ministry, in general, to obtain professional views from appointed members who had experience, knowledge and expertise in matters related to education.

She said teachers' workload was one of the issues that would be the main focus of the NEAC.

It would be studied before the council submitted the best solution proposal to her for consideration, she added.

The council was provided for under the Education Act 1996, she said.

The NEAC was reinstated by Fadhlina last December, after it was disbanded when the previous education minister, Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin, took office in 2020.