4.3 Training of Change Leaders to Support
Decentralisation
The Ministry of Education realised that decentralisation
would not be fruitful if the personnel in educational service areas
and schools were not prepared. Therefore, training of change leaders
was initiated to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary
for managing organisations of the new era.
Accordingly, nationwide development programmes were
organised for prospective change leaders such as directors and
deputy directors of the educational service areas, school principals,
vice principals of public and private schools, including Islamic
private schools, as well as supervisors and head teachers of subject
groups. Some of these designated change leaders were trained to be
the trainers of other trainees for further implementation.