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Sampoerna School of Education is the Next Step of SF Teacher Institute

Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute (SFTI) was initiated three years ago with the aim to create an extensive impact to education in Indonesia. Sampoerna Foundation (SF) sees that teacher is the main engine to launch the snowball effect to create Indonesia's new leaders in the future through their activities.

SFTI to date has trained at least 14,000 teachers and linked them to SF 22 adopted schools across Indonesia. SFTI re-energizes and improve teacher's skill by giving them so called ‘train the trainers' programs every weekend at SF headquarter in Sampoerna Strategic Square. To run the programs, SFTI partners with at least 80 donors up to now and fully supported by National Ministry of Education.

The acknowledgement is not coming only from donors but also from stakeholders. SFTI holds Teacher's Conference (KGI = Kongres Guru Indonesia) once a year for updating community of latest researches and learning development & innovation. There are thousands of participants coming from all over Indonesia.

Establishing Sampoerna School of Education (SSE) that has a license to grant degree to teachers, as well as, can serve as an education research and community development arm, will be the perfecting step of SFTI's milestones. This will be the huge leap of SF effort to improve the education quality in Indonesia.

SSE has officially launched on March 3, 2009. The event was held at Sampoerna Strategic Square and officiated by Ron Perkinson, President of Sampoerna Foundation, Prof. dr. Fasli Djalal, Director of General for Higher Education, Ministry of National Education and was attended also by Prof. S Gopinathan, a Senior Consultant from Singapore and Kenneth Cock, Director of SFTI.  

SF is consistent that quality education must be accessible to all, hence SF Scholarships Program will support majority of the students of SEE. The scholarship is targeted towards academically exceptional students. SSE is expected to create equal opportunity to obtain quality education for young generation of Indonesians.

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