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Nine Governing Board members were able t o at t end t he meet ing, except represent at ive f rom Myanmar. They were Hon Awang Ot hman bin Haj i Simbran Brunei Darussal am,
Mr. Om Set hy Cambodia, Prof . Dr. At wi Suparman Indonesia, Mr. Siri Souvannasy Lao PDR, Prof . Dr. Mansor Fadzil Mal aysia, represent ing Prof . Dr. Anuwar Al i, Prof .
Dr. Felix Librero Philippines, Dr. Koh Thiam Seng Singapore, Prof . Dr. Prat ya Versarach Thail and, Prof . Dr. Phan Van Que Viet nam, and accompined by Dr. Tran Duc Vuong.
The Ex-of f icio Members were Mr. Benit o E. Benoza represent ing t he Direct or of SEAMEO Secret ariat and SEAMOLEC Direct or.
Meet ing
1. SEAMEO Regular Meet ings
a. Cent re Direct or Meet ing CDM 2007
The SEAMEO CDM-2007 was conduct ed at t he Cent ury Park Hot el , Bangkok on Jul y 4-5, 2007, and host ed by SEAMEO Secret ariat . The opening remark was
del ivered by SEAMEO Secret ariat Direct or. The t wo-day meet ing was at t ended by t he SEAMEO Secret ariat st af f , Cent er’ s Direct ors, represent at ives f rom
SEAMEO Associat e Members, Brit ish Council , UNESCO Asia-Pacif ic Cent re of Educat ion f or Int ernat ional Underst anding APCEIU, and UNESCO Bangkok.
SEAMOLEC was represent ed by t he Direct or and st af f .
One of t he import ant agenda of t he meet ing was discussion about SEAMEO cent res act ivit ies in t he f iscal year of 2006 2007, incl uding progress report on
promot ion of val ues-based wat er and sanit at ion educat ion in Sout heast Asian SEA schools at which SEAMOLEC was involved in coordinat ing t he development
and compilat ion of t he resource package. In addit ion, some t hemat ic discussions such as ICT in educat ion, qual it y improvement of science and mat hemat ics
educat i on, l anguage i n ear l y educat i on i n SEA, educat i onal l eader shi p devel opment , and qual it y assurance were al so raised. In t he discussion of
qual it y assurance, t he SEAMOLEC direct or st at ed t he import ance of qual it y assurance f or open and dist ance l earning in SEA count ries f or which SEAMOLEC
has t aken t he init iat ive t o devel op a manual .
An i m por t ant m om ent f or SEAMOLEC i n t he m eet i ng w as si gni ng t he Memorandum of Underst anding MoU wit h UNESCO APCEIU, Korea t o st udy
mul t icul t ural educat ion in SEA count ries.
b. The 30
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SEAMEO High Official Meet ing HOM
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SEAMEO HOM 2007 was conduct ed at t he Sof it el Cent ara Grand Hot el , Bangkok on 21-22November 2007, and host ed by SEAMEO Secret ariat .
The opening remarks was del ivered by a keynot e speaker, Deput y Minist er of Educat ion of Thail and, Dr. Varakorn Samakoses, highl ight ing a l ong decade
part nership of Thail and and SEAMEO and t he growing cooperat ion in human development bet ween SEAMEO and ASEAN. The SEAMEO HOM is a yearly agenda
of SEAMEO Secr et ar i at par t i ci pat ed by hi gh of f i ci al f r om Depar t ment of
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Educat ion of every ASEAN member count ries. They discussed t he f ol l ow-up act ions on t he 42
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SEAMEO Council Conf erence in Bal i, Indonesia. This year SEAMEO HOM discussed about st at us and ut il izat ion of associat e
membership cont ribut ions t o t he SEAMEO Secret ariat , st at us and ut il izat ion of Thail and’ s addit ional cont ribut ions t o t he SEAMEO Secret ariat , st at us of
t he SEAMEO Educat ional Devel opment Fund SEDF, invest ment of f unds at t he SEAMEO Secret ariat FY 2005 2006, f inancial audit report f or FY 2006
2007, and SEAMEO consol idat ed t hree year budget .
c. SEAMEO Council Conference 2008
