Southeast Asia Ministry of Education Organization (SEAMEO) was established on 1965 in Bangkok, and currently there are eleven countries has joined and 26 SEAMEO Centres have established to carry out the Seven Priority Areas as SEAMEO Education Agenda 2015-2035 as guidance of education, science and culture progression in region. To examine to what extend education agenda has been implemented, the SEAMEO Centre Directors Meeting was conducted by SEAMEO Secretariat as annual forum where every Centre presents their achievements in implementing SEAMEO Education Agenda.
The latest Centre Directors Meeting was held on 17-19 July 2018 in Aroma Hotel, Bangkok. A total of 92 participants, representing 26 SEAMEO Centres, SEAMEO Secretariat, Associate Member Country, Affiliate Members and eleven Partners and Observers. The meeting was started with special session forum attended by only SEAMEO Centres/Networks where SEAMEO Secretariat Director proposed new initiatives to support the SEAMEO Agenda, and then updated the progression of current programmes by SEAMEO Units in FY 2017/2018, and other collaboration programmes. The second session was the main agenda of meeting where every Centre presented and shared their achievements and reported the highlighted programme and requested support from other relevant Centres and sought possibility to join in through Inter-Centre Collaboration mechanism. The last agenda was networking session where every Centre sought opportunity to expand their networks by synergising their regional programmes visibility to other Centres.
SEAMEO QITEP in Science (SEAQIS) was represented by the Centre Director, Dr Indrawati accompanied by Deputy Director for Programme, Dr Indarjani. During the meeting, the Director briefly reported the progression of the Second Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for the Best Regional Science Teacher to the forum and informed the intention to inaugurate the winner during the next SEAMEO High Officials Meeting. In Networking Session, SEAQIS also took opportunity to create collaboration with SEAMEO partners such as MEXT-Japan under Expert Dispatch Programme, IPST-Thailand for collaboration in International Seminar on Science Education 2019, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education to join in their focus programme on the gender, especially supporting female to enhance their performance in professional area, CEAIE-China for International Teacher Exchange Program, University Tsukuba-Japan by requesting support for their experts in SEAQIS incoming training on Computer Science Literacy. At the end of meeting, SEAQIS also joined in a limited Centres meeting including SPAFA, BIOTROP, SEAMOLEC on Mangrove Programme and agreed to conduct the Art Competition on Mangroves and Teacher Exchange Program related to Mangrove Education. All the initiatives taken during CDM was subjected to be endorsed to Governing Board Meeting on 20 – 23 September 2018 in Bali to request support, inputs and approval.
