GTP 2.0 - Prime Minister's Office of Malaysia

mINIstER’s FoREWoRD
taN sRI Dato’ hajI muhyIDDIN
hajI mohD yassIN
Deputy Prime minister of malaysia
A quality education remains
one of the best guarantees of
success later in life and the
Malaysian Government is
committed to transforming the
Malaysian education system
to be among the best in the
region. Studies have shown
that a quality education early
on in life leads to higher
salaries, and enhances socioeconomic
mobility with our
ambitions of Vision 2020
to create a high-income nation.
Moreover, as Malaysia transforms into a highincome
nation, there will be greater demand for
skilled knowledge workers and we must do all
that we can to ensure that our children acquire
proper foundational skills to be lifelong learners.
To this end, the Ministry of Education has
launched the Preliminary Report of the Malaysian
Education Blueprint (MEB), a 12-year programme
that provides exhaustive detail about how we
want to see the education system transformed
by 2025.
Together, with the help of all Malaysians,
we can ensure a brighter future for the
generations to come.
The initiatives of GTP, a holistic programme
of change that aims at targets with a “three-foot
horizon,” will form the first wave of change that
works towards the overall goals of the MEB.
The Education NKRA, should thus be seen as
a working subset under the overarching rubric
of the MEB, providing immediate and impactful
results that can be felt by the rakyat.
As for the results by the NKRA team, anyone
who has been following our achievements should
be excited by of shown so far now that the first
horizon of the GTP has drawn to a close. Preschool
enrolment numbers are up, primary school
students have been screened for basic literacy
and numeracy skills, and schools have improved.
These are but some of our accomplishments, and
they are significant by any account, especially
given the short turnaround time of three years.
But we can’t pat ourselves on the back just
yet. There is still a long way to go before we
can justly say that our education system is on
par with the best in the world. We are therefore
going forward with a number of enhancements
to our initiatives in GTP 2.0, which will build on
the foundations established over the last three
years while expanding our scope to include other
related areas.
As the minister in charge of the Education
NKRA, I am personally convinced that we are
heading in the right direction with the reforms
that we have introduced for this sector, and I am
personally committed to see that we continue
down this path over the next three years. Together,
with the help of all Malaysians, we can ensure
a brighter future for the generations to come.
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Government transformation Programme—Annual Report 2012 Chapter six