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SHNU: On December 3rd, YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, led a delegation to visit SHHU for exploring successful experience of Shanghai. He was received by Yang Jun, Counselor of Department of Asian Affairs of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fu Jihong, Vice Director of Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal Government, Zhang Minxuan, PISA Chinese Director and International Comparative Education Institute, and other representatives from the PISA program. The visit aims at promoting understanding of PISA, sharing the successful experience of Shanghai PISA education, probing the differences and strengths of education development patterns of Malaysian and Chinese education. The China PISA program director Zhang detailed on why Shanghai joined PISA, Shanghai PISA results, Limits and preconditions, Shanghai secrets, and challenges and reforms, etc. Zhang also brought about the challenges that educators shall persist in expanding equity, reducing students’ study burden in pressure and homework, strengthen self-control and meta-cognitive learning strategy, find ways, time and space for the development of students’ personal potential and talents, promoting quality in weak schools or those in poor areas, establish a new concept of evaluation and a school monitoring system with multi-dimensioned criteria, and develop vocational and technical education and training and raise the quality of higher education. PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) was developed by OECD (Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development) in year 2000, and 65 countries and regions joined it in year 2012. |
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