GEORGE TOWN, April 21 -- Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek has urged Asean countries to collectively develop educational initiatives to build regional resilience and shared prosperity.

Speaking at the Empowering Education Summit 2025, she proposed five joint actions to future-proof Asean's education landscape - starting with an education futures taskforce.

"The taskforce will be a regional foresight group comprising educators, industry, and futurists to anticipate education challenges and policy responses," she said during her keynote address here.

Second, she proposed an Asean Digital Skills Passport, a blockchain-based credentialling system to support skill recognition across borders, especially for technical and vocational education...