International Handbook on Education in Southeast Asia

Lorraine Pe Symaco is a Professor at Zhejiang University, China. She was founder-director of the Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE) and UNESCO Chair in International and Comparative Educational Research with Special Reference to Southeast Asia at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She is editor of the Journal of International and Comparative Education (JICE) and series editor of Education in Southeast Asia (Routledge). Martin Hayden is an Emeritus Professor of higher education at Southern Cross University, Australia. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Melbourne in 1988 and has published extensively on higher education policy issues. Since 2005, he has been actively engaged as a higher education consultant in Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia, working on projects funded by the ADB, the World Bank, the ASEAN Secretariat, and various national governments.

• Overview of Education in the Philippines.- Overview of Education in Singapore.- Early Child Education in the Philippines.- Early Child Education in Singapore.- Basic Education in the Philippines.- Basic Education in Singapore.- Higher Education in the Philippines.- Higher Education in Singapore.- Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines.- Vocational Education and Training in Singapore.