About SEAMEO RECSAM SEAMEO RECSAM stands for Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization-Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics. Established by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) in May 1967, RECSAM is committed to nurturing and enhancing the quality of science and mathematics education in the SEAMEO Member Countries of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam. RECSAM shares the vast expanse of the campus grounds with the Institut Perguruan Persekutuan Pulau Pinang (Malayan Teachers’ Institute) in Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, Gelugor, fringing the city limits of Georgetown, which is the metropolitan capital of the State of Penang. The island state is located in the north-western part of Peninsular Malaysia. Since its inception, RECSAM, one of its kind in the region which is dedicated to the development of educational manpower, has been playing the role of a catalyst for the advancement of science and mathematics education at the primary and secondary school levels among its Member Countries. Ever surging forward, RECSAM is now in the midst of its Eighth Five-Year Plan (July 2005 – June 2010) and more than ten thousand key educators have graduated from its training, development and research courses. As RECSAM forges ahead with its programmes and activities, it not only draws upon its reserve of resources and past experiences but also continuously examines the development of science and mathematics education in the SEAMEO Region as well as in the world at large. In keeping with current global trends and developments, RECSAM carries out its science and mathematics education courses in the context of values and needs of changing societies.