Design sustainable and holistic curriculum to meet students’ needs

I REFER to the letter “Education system in need of major revamp” (The Star, April 30). The writer’s concerns are not baseless as the negative effects can be spotted easily in the education ecosystem. Even­tually, the undesirable effects would be absorbed by the nation’s industries and finally go down to the people.

In general, the education ecosystem can be divided into two: internal ecosystem and external ecosystem. Within the internal ecosystem are several important elements that are mainly related to the education providers. These include governing bodies, places of learning (universities, colleges, and schools), and the programmes, courses and human resources needed (lecturers/teachers, teaching and learning aspects, curriculum, assessment and accreditation).