<P> Hong Kong's University Grants Committee adopted an outcomes - based approach to teaching and learning in 2005 . No specific approach was created leaving universities to design the approach themselves . Universities were also left with a goal of ensuring an education for their students that will contribute to social and economic development, as defined by the community in which the university resides . With little to no direction or feedback from the outside universities will have to determine if their approach is achieving its goals on their own . </P> <P> OBE has been practiced in Malaysia since the 1950s; however, as of 2008, OBE is being implemented at all levels of education, especially tertiary education . This change is a result of the belief that the education system used prior to OBE inadequately prepared graduates for life outside of school . The Ministry of Higher Education has pushed for this change because of the number of unemployed graduates . Findings in 2006 state that nearly 70% of graduates from public universities were considered unemployed . A further study of those graduates found that they felt they lacked, job experience, communication skills, and qualifications relevant to the current job market . The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) was created to oversee quality of education and to ensure outcomes were being reached . The MQA created a framework that includes eight levels of qualification within higher education, covering three sectors; skills, vocational and technical, and academic . Along with meeting the standards set by the MQA, universities set and monitor their own outcome expectations for students </P> <P> OBE was introduced to South Africa in the late 1990s by the post-apartheid government as part of its Curriculum 2005 program . (2), Initial support for the program derived from anti-apartheid education policies . The policy also gained support from the labor movements that borrowed ideas about competency - based education, and Vocational education from New Zealand and Australia, as well as the labor movement that critiqued the apartheid education system . With no strong alternative proposals, the idea of outcome - based education, and a national qualification framework, became the policy of the African National Congress government . This policy was believed to be a democratization of education, people would have a say in what they wanted the outcomes of education to be . It was also believed to be a way to increase education standards and increase the availability of education . The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) went into effect in 1997 . In 2001 people realized that the intended effects were not being seen . By 2006 no proposals to change the system had been accepted by the government, causing a hiatus of the program . The program came to be viewed as a failure and a new curriculum improvement process was announced in 2010, slated to be implemented between 2012 and 2014 . </P> <P> In 1983, a report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared that American education standards were eroding, that young people in the United States were not learning enough . In 1989, President Bush and the nation's governors set national goals to be achieved by the year 2000 . GOALS 2000: Educate America Act was signed in March 1994 . The goal of this new reform was to show that results were being achieved in schools . In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act took the place of Goals 2000 . It mandated certain measurements as a condition of receiving federal education funds . States are free to set their own standards, but the federal law mandates public reporting of math and reading test scores for disadvantaged demographic subgroups, including racial minorities, low - income students, and special education students . Various consequences for schools that do not make "adequate yearly progress" are included in the law . In 2010, President Obama proposed improvements for the program . In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education invited states to request flexibility waivers in exchange for rigorous plans designed to improve students' education in the state . </P>

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