Higher Education in ASEAN - IAU

Higher Education in ASEAN

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Publication prepared by Stefanie Mallow, IAU Printed by Suranaree University of Technology

On the occasion of

Hosted by a consortium of four Thai universities:

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Foreword

The Ninth ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting (May 2016, in Malaysia), in conjunction with the Third ASEAN Plus Three Education Ministers Meeting, and the Third East Asia Summit of Education Ministers hold a number of promises. With the theme "Fostering ASEAN Community of Learners: Empowering Lives through Education," these meetings distinctly emphasized children and young people as the collective stakeholders and focus of cooperation in education in ASEAN and among the Member States. The Ministers also affirmed the important role of education in promoting a better quality of life for children and young people, and in providing them with an opportunity to participate in and benefit from the realization of a prosperous ASEAN Community 2025. They highlighted the need to deepen the scope of education partnership among ASEAN Member States towards the development of a more coordinated, cohesive and coherent ASEAN position and contribution to global education issues. The ASEAN Work Plan on Education 2016-2020 which they adopted hopes to unify all collaboration efforts on education with ASEAN Dialogue Partners and international organizations and other entities that support ASEAN.

The ASEAN Work Plan on Education focuses on eight areas:

Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF) Governance and Structure, and the plans to institutionalize the AQRF processes on a voluntary basis at the national and regional levels. All these will help enhance quality, credit transfer and student mobility, as well as university collaboration and people-to-people connectivity which are all crucial in realigning the diverse education systems and opportunities, as well as creating a more coordinated, cohesive and coherent ASEAN.

The IAU is particularly pleased to note that the Meeting approved the revised Charter of the ASEAN University Network (AUN), better aligned with the new developments in ASEAN. The AUN and IAU have been collaborating as partners in advancing the role of education regionally and worldwide by building a committed community of learners. Both associations are aware of the importance of the various networks and projects that exist in the region, including: AUN Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net), ASEAN-EU Cooperation on Education: EU Support to Higher Education in ASEAN Region (SHARE), GIZ Regional Cooperation Programme to Improve the Training of TVET Personnel (RECOTVET), Fulbright U.S.-ASEAN Initiative, and Connecting the Mekong through Education and Training (COMET).

ASEAN awareness through strengthening Southeast Asian history and indigenous knowledge

quality and access to basic education for all especially the marginalized groups

information and communication technologies in education

technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and lifelong learning

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

higher education development and quality assurance mechanisms

university-industry partnership capacity building for teachers and the

education community.

With this inaugural publication which attempts to provide as much information as possible about the higher education systems and institutions in the ASEAN region in a comprehensive and reliable manner, IAU hopes to help facilitate deeper education cooperation on the basis of accurate data. It is significant and timely to celebrate 2016 as the first year since ASEAN became a Community, and concomitantly the first year for the implementation of the ASEAN Vision 2025. We congratulate the emerging ASEAN Community, in particular the education sector, and thank all partners and universities for making this unique and historic publication possible.

The International Association of Universities (IAU) shares several of these focus areas, notably the focus on indigenous knowledge, quality, access and ESD among others. The Association also applauds the promotion of academic mobility and the Ministers' endorsement of the ASEAN

Best wishes and warm regards,

Dzulkifli Abdul Razak IAU President

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Myanmar pp 40--43

Thailand pp 64--67 Malaysia pp 36--39

Lao PDR pp 32--35

Vietnam pp 68--71

Cambodia pp 20--23

Brunei Darussalam pp 16--19 Singapore pp 60--63

Indonesia pp 24--31

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Contents

Philippines pp 44--59

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Word from the IAU President

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IAU and its World Higher Education

Database (WHED)

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Key facts on ASEAN and

Overview of the HE Systems

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IAU Members and Supporters in ASEAN

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ASEAN countries' HE system and list of

Institutions by location

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Host Universities of the IAU 15th General

Conference

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References

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Acknowledgements

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