UK wants to enhance relations in education with Malaysia

LONDON: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Britain is interested to discuss ways to enhance relations with Malaysia in education and related issues.

The deputy prime minister, who is also education minister, said this was expressed by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown during their short discussion before the latter opened the Learning and Technology World Forum 2010 here Monday.

Muhyiddin was the only minister among the 73 ministers attending the forum who was invited by Brown to have a discussion with him before the opening.

The Learning and Technology World Forum 2010 is the world's premier event on learning technologies, attracting national and international leaders from across the globe to share best practice and debate future practice in education and skills.

The forum is led by Becta (the UK government's lead agency on supporting technology in education) on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and is fully supported by the British Council and a range of partner organisations.

The forum is the largest educational leadership forum in the world covering schools and further and higher education. - Bernama