Do Something Difference.

Pagi tadi Khamis 21 Februari, Datuk Yaacob Wan Ibrahim(YWI) datang ke sekolah . Kami berbual mesra kerana lama tak berjumpa. Saya lihat beliau masih sihat dan kuat walau pun sudah meninggalkan perkhidmatan kerajaan sejak tahun 2004 yang lalu. Perbualan kami berkisar mengenai perkembangan pendidikan masa kini. Sebagai seorang yang berpengalaman , Datuk Yaacob kelihatan bertenaga (energetic) berbicara mengenai dunia ilmu kerana beliau begitu lama berkecimpung dalam bidang ini.

 

Datuk Yaacob Wan Ibrahim

Mantan Pengarah Pelajaran 

WP KL 2001-2004

Gagasan pemikiran 

Datuk Yaacob Wan Ibrahim (DYWI)  seorang figura  berpengetahuan luas  mempunyai gagasan pemikiran yang bernas memajukan pendidikan khususnya di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur semasa menjadi Pengarah Pelajaran dari tahun 2001-2004. Beliau telah memperkenalkan sistem Edugis iaitu Geografic Information System , Direktori Sekolah ,E-Daftar dan  E-Pengawas untuk meningkatkan kecekapan pengurusan.Idea menerbitkan buku Direktori Profil Sekolah 2003 yang mengandungi maklumat dan data-data sekolah di Wilayah Persekutuan menjadi sumber informasi kepada semua guru,Pengetua dan masyarakat awam lebih-lebih lagi kepada mereka yang sedang mencari-cari maklumat mengenai pembangunan pendidikan di Wilayah Persekutuan.

Cekap membaca data

Pengalaman saya sebagai Pegawai Peperiksaan yang sering berurusan dengan DYWI terutama semasa membuat analisis PMR,SPM dan STPM untuk Sidang Media (PC),menjadikan saya sangat teliti dan berhati-hati dengan penganalisaan data yang dikeluarkan benar-benar tepat dan akurat.Beliau mempunyai sepasang penglihatan yang tajam terhadap ketepatan data yang dikemukakan kepadanya.Demikian sedikit gambaran mengenai mantan Pengarah saya ,Datuk Yaacob Wan Ibrahim yang pernah menjawat Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Pendidikan (TKPP) Swasta, Kementerian Pelajaran suatu ketika dahulu.

Do something difference

Sewaktu meninggalkan pejabat saya , beliau berpesan "Do something difference' semasa kita diberikan amanah melaksanakan tugas dan tanggungjawab.Saya menanggapi kata-kata perangsang beliau sebagai penyuntik semangat untuk  melakukan perobahan dengan menginovasi pembaharuan dalam sektor pengurusan ,pentadbiran dan pembangunan akademik pelajar yang menjadi indikator kecemerlangan sekolah.

Che'Yahya Che'Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR

Khamis,21 Februari,2013

Expertise : Strategic Planning; Policy Development and Analysis, Leadership

He was one of the Ministry of Education (MOE) top senior  executives, had served  the education service for 32  years.  Based on his record of  services, Datuk Yaacob had gained a  wide knowledge and experiences about the Malaysian Education System. Started his teaching profession in January 1971, he had moved around in the education system assuming roles as a school teacher, a teacher educator/lecturer, a secondary school senior assistant, a secondary school principal, and as  a  principal or director of a Malaysian  teacher’s college. Climbing the education administrative ladder, he had held several senior and top executive posts of departments of the Ministry of Education. Among the strategic divisions and departments of the    MOE that he served were Teacher Education Division , Educational Planning and Research Division, Schools Division,  Education Technology Division, Private Education Department, and Kuala Lumpur Education Department of the  Federal Territory  . 

By academic qualifications, he obtained his Masters of Education degree from one of the American prestigious universities i.e. the Harvard University, USA (1990) and a Bachelor of Arts   (Malay Studies and Economics) from the University of Malaya. His professional teaching qualifications were Diploma in Education (University of Malaya, 1972) and Diploma in Teaching English as a Second  Language at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand, 1979).  

His international work experiences encompassed education attachment programs, education visits, international conferences, meetings,  presentation of country papers and oversea posting. For such purpose, the countries engaged were USA, Canada, Japan, Pakistan, Korea, Australia, Scotland, Netherlands, and Korea. As the Director of Malaysian Students Department in Sydney cum a Malaysian Consul in Australia from 1995-1998, Datuk Yaacob had the opportunity to establish networking with many Australian universities as well as the Consular Corps in Sydney.  As part of the assignment of Private Education Department head (Deputy D-G), Datuk Yaacob  led the Malaysian education delegations participating in the international education exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Brunei, Bangkok, Jakarta, Medan, Bandung, and Vancouver. 

After retiring from the government service in 2004, he joined a private college as Director of Institution Development, and later moved out to be appointed as a Fellow of Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS Malaysia) until early 2009. Currently, Datuk Yaacob is a Special Project Advisor to Paramount Corporation Berhad (PCB), Petaling Jaya.  He also had experienced as Board of Trustee member in education related NGOs, such as the Selangor Foundation and the Federal Territory Foundation. Other NGOs that Datuk Yaacob is supporting are Yayasan Pendidikan Cheras (Cheras Education Foundation) and the Malaysian Historical Society Kuala Lumpur Branch. 

Source : MSEAM