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The Evolution of Higher Education in ASEAN and in Indonesia

Tue, March 7, 8:00 to 9:30am, Sheraton Atlanta, Floor: 1, Georgia 3 (South Tower)

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With the inauguration of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, links between ASEAN members are increasing, and barriers to labor mobility are decreasing, which has important implications for flows of students and professors throughout the region. Not only are governments concerned about improving quality of higher education for its contribution to national development, but also retention of the most qualified staff and students. Over the past ten years, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been abuzz with activities promoting quality assurance (QA) in higher education and regional integration. All across the region, quality issues and the search for methods of quality assurance are gaining a central place in higher education policy discussions. Harmonization of QA has become one of the driving forces for regional integration in the ASEAN community. Throughout the region quality issues and the search for methods of quality assurance are gaining a central place in higher education policy discussions.

This presentation will draw on a desktop review of quality assurance among the 10 ASEAN Member States and recent consultations with national accrediting body experts. While some common ground can be found among the countries in terms of QA processes, there exists a wide range of standards and procedures. Certain concerns in assuring quality in their higher education systems are also common to countries across the region (including Indonesia), such as a) insufficient funding; b) insufficient QA experts, tools and knowledge; c) lack of awareness of QA implementation; d) limited participation in voluntary QA processes; e) QA results not incorporated into the quality improvement processes of the institutions; f) limited national quality assurance development strategies; and g) overlap of quality assurance functions in government.

This presentation provides the wider regional setting in which frames the reform of QA policies and processes in Indonesia.

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