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Global Citizenship Education (GCED) plays a critical role in training learners, including youths, to be critically literate, socially connected and concerned citizens. As well as the increasing international attention, GCED is also becoming a key point of focus in Vietnam educational context. The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences (VNIES) has conducted a national research project in which approximately 2000 school students, over 200 teachers and 100 school managers were involved to fill in paper questionnaires and interviews regarding GCED in their school settings. The results sketch a general picture of knowledge, skills and attitudes of Vietnamese students in relation with GCED. Insights from this research open up suggestions for further studies and investigations into teaching, learning and managing activities in Vietnamese schools in order to better implement GCED in the national education system.

As the world has become more digitally interconnected than ever before in the 21stcentury, the next generation is required to possess various sets of new skills to succeed in their works and lives. The purpose of the article is to present a dataset of socio-demographic, in-school, out-of-school factors as well as the eight domains of 21st-century skills of Vietnamese secondary school students. A total of 1183 observations from 30 secondary schools in both rural and urban areas of Vietnam are introduced in this dataset. The linear regression analysis was also utilized as an analysis example for this dataset. The insights generated from the dataset are hoped to contribute to skills-based education and policy planning in Vietnam.

Strategy is the end product of strategic planning process, which normally also incorporates the control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy. Strategic planning looks into the future to paint a picture of that future based on current trends. This presentation describes the strategic planning process of developing the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025, which is used a reference to transform the Malaysian education system in accordance to the demand of 21st century. The Blueprint was developed with three objectives: 1) Understanding the current performance and challenges of the Malaysian education system, with a focus on improving access to education, raising standards (quality), closing achievement gaps (equity), fostering unity amongst students, and maximizing system efficiency, 2) Establishing a clear vision and aspirations for individual students and the education system as a whole over the next 13 years; and 3) Outlining a comprehensive transformation program for the system, including key changes to the Ministry. Multiple perspectives of inputs were considered in the development of the Blueprint. These included inputs and assessment from various experts and agencies from international and local, the general public and analysis of past policies documents and research reports. From these inputs, two aspirations were established - firstly, those for the education system as a whole, and secondly, those for individual students. These two aspirations set the stage for transformation of the Malaysian education system. The Blueprint suggested 11 shifts that will need to occur to achieve the envisioned education’s goals. Each shift addresses at least one of the five system outcomes of access, quality, equity, unity and efficiency, with quality as the common underlying focus across all shifts because this dimension requires the most urgent attention. Each shift comes with the underlying initiatives. As such, prioritization of initiatives is crucial to avoid overtaxed and execution fatigue and transformation is sequenced to occur in three waves. To ensure successful transformation as envisioned in the Blueprint, the Ministry has identified and committed to four differentiated actions in delivering the roadmap.