About SEAMEO

Leading Through Learning

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) is a regional intergovernmental organization established in 1965 among the governments of Southeast Asian countries to promote regional cooperation in education, science and culture.

As an organization that has continued to nurture human capacities and explored the peoples’ fullest potential, SEAMEO maintains its work and aspirations for development of the region to make lives better in quality and equity in education, preventive health education, culture and tradition, information and communication technology, languages, poverty alleviation and agriculture and natural resources. SEAMEO's mission is to enhance regional understanding, cooperation and unity of purpose among Member Countries for a better quality of life.

The organisation's highest policy-making body is the SEAMEO Council, which comprises the 11 Southeast Asian Education Ministers. The SEAMEO Secretariat is located in Bangkok, Thailand.

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SEAMEO Member Countries

Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Lao PDR
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor Leste
Vietnam

Associate Member Countries

Australia
Canada
France
Germany
Kingdom of Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Spain
United Kingdom

Affiliate Members

Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC)
British Council
China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE)
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
The University of Tsukuba

SEAMEO
7 Priorities

With the Education for All (EFA) global agenda culminating in 2015, SEAMEO set its eyes on the Southeast Asian agenda beyond 2015, especially in the context of rapid regional integration and the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Having harnessed vast experience in education in the region for more than 50 years, SEAMEO recognised that challenges beyond 2015 will be even more demanding, calling for greater urgency in developing a regional agenda that will drive SEAMEO to promote excellence in education, science and culture.

As part of this initiative, a Ministerial Meeting of the SEAMEO Council was convened in Lao PDR in September 2014. The outcome of this meeting was the distillation of Seven Priority Areas of SEAMEO on Education to be promoted for the next twenty years (2015-2035).

SEAMEO
Centres

SEAMEO has 26 specialist institutions located across Southeast Asia that undertake training and research programmes in various fields of education, science, and culture. Each Regional Centre or Network has a Governing Board composed of senior education officials from each SEAMEO Member Country. The Governing Board reviews Centre operations and budgets and sets their policies and programmes.

List of Regional Centres and Network