Making education a National Key Economic Areas (NKEA).
The focus of education NKEA is on strengthening the private education services sector by increasing private consumption and investments as well as expanding educational exports. 2020 envisions education as big business and not just a stopover location. This in turn is intended to develop a first world talent base that it needs. Each NKEA is given specific targets and concrete actions to drive economic development. The education NKEA has 13 Entry Point Projects (EPP). These are
EPP 1: Scaling up early child care and education centres
EPP 2: Improving early child care and education training
EPP 3: Scaling up international schools
EPP 4: Expanding private teacher training
EPP 5: Scaling up private skills training provision
EPP 6: Expanding international distance learning
EPP 7: Building a Islamic finance and business education DC
EPP 8: Building a health services discipline cluster
EPP 9: Building an advanced engineering discipline cluster
EPP 10: Building a hospitality and tourism discipline cluster
EPP 11: Launching EduCity @ Iskandar
EPP 12: Championing Malaysia’s international education brand
EPP 13: Introducing public private partnerships in basic education
