Role of Promoter-Facilitator EMB's and ED's role is to promote and facilitate quality education, not to provide it. The intellectual basis of their objective needs to be clarified because that influences how they see themselves, their functions and roles. Even curriculum development is not providing education. Certainly, having ED-officers and schools do a lot of paper work is not providing education. Education is a process and a total experience of teaching and learning.
Education takes place within a school setting through interaction between teachers and students.
A new philosophy about the Government's role as a whole on education should lead to giving schools, teachers and students much more flexibility in every aspect of education. It should at the same time require the ED and schools do less paper work. It is a step in the right direction that EMB is considering restructuring ED into client-based divisions. We can see why schools, parents and students and the community can be seen as separate clients. Perhaps it is just an inappropriate use of words.