Education in South-East Asia / edited by Lorraine Pe Symaco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

FC; Half title; Available and Forthcoming Titles in the Education Around the World Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; The Contributors; Introduction: Education and Issues in South-East Asia: A Regional Overview; Lorraine Pe Symaco; 1 Brunei Darussalam: Planning for Educational Transformation and ICT in Education; Murray Brown and Haji Abdul Rahim Derus; 2 Cambodia: From Dependency to Sovereignty -- Emerging National Leadership; Vincent McNamara; 3 Cambodia: Evolving Quality Issues in Higher Education; Luise Ahrens and Vincent McNamara.

4 Indonesia: The Challenges of Quality and Equity in EducationMark Heyward and Sopantini; 5 Indonesia: Islamic Higher Education -- Periphery within Periphery?; Anthony Welch and Saefudin Syafi'i; 6 Lao PDR: The Great Transformation; Richard Noonan, Phouvanh Phommalangsy and Inthasone Phetsiriseng; 7 Malaysia: Ethnocracy and Education; Moses Samuel and Meng Yew Tee; 8 Malaysia: The Education of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children; Hema Letchamanan; 9 Myanmar: Governance, Civil Society and the Developments in Education; Richard Martin; 10 The Philippines: Education Issues and Challenges.

Lorraine Pe Symaco11 The Philippines: Higher Education and Development; Lorraine Pe Symaco; 12 Singapore: Education in Transition; Letchmi Ponnusamy and Saravanan Gopinathan; 13 Singapore: The Malay Ethnic Minority -- Playing Perennial Catch-up in Education?; Jason Tan; 14 Thailand: Issues in Education; Chaiyuth Punyasavatsut; 15 Timor-Leste: Education, Decolonization and Development; Bob Boughton; 16 Vietnam: The Education System -- A Need to Improve Quality; Martin Hayden and Le Thi Ngoc Lan; Index.

Education in South-East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in South East Asia. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of the ten member states of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the state of Timor-Leste. The diverse range and forms of culture, religion and politics embedded in the region are exhibited in the distinctive education systems that inter-relate in one of the most integrated regions in the world. Including a comparative introduction to the issues f.