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Dr Ninnat Olanvoravuth Secretary-General of ASAIHL Chair, Governing Board, Srisophon College

ASEAN Community and Challenges in Implementing Higher Education Strategic Policies. Dr Ninnat Olanvoravuth Secretary-General of ASAIHL Chair, Governing Board, Srisophon College. Photo: http://www.bloggang.com/data/moonfleet/picture/1238480965.jpg. ASEAN Community.

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Dr Ninnat Olanvoravuth Secretary-General of ASAIHL Chair, Governing Board, Srisophon College

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  1. ASEAN Community and Challenges in Implementing Higher Education Strategic Policies Dr NinnatOlanvoravuthSecretary-General of ASAIHLChair, Governing Board, Srisophon College Photo: http://www.bloggang.com/data/moonfleet/picture/1238480965.jpg

  2. ASEAN Community The ASEAN Community based on 3 pillars: 1. The ASEAN Security Community (ASC) is to maintain and strengthen peace, security and stability and enhance ASEAN’s capacity for self-management of regional security. 2.ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has mission to develop a single market and production base that is stable, prosperous, competitive & integrated with effective facilitation for trade and investment with a free flow of goods, services, investment, skilled labors, and freer flow of capital.

  3. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community is for Southeast Asia bonded together in partnership as “a community of caring and sharing societies”, managing the social impact of economic integration, enhancing environmental sustainability, strengthening the foundations of regional social cohesion towards an ASEAN Community.

  4. ASEAN Ministers’ Priorities: • Promoting ASEAN Awareness among ASEAN citizens • Strengthening ASEAN identity through education • Building ASEAN human resources in the field of education • Strengthening university networking among ASEAN countries

  5. Education underpins ASEAN community building • Education helps forge a shared identity in the region • Education lies at the core of development process • Education creates a knowledge-based society • Education enhances ASEAN competitiveness • Education is a vehicle to raise ASEAN awareness

  6. Education inspires the “we feeling” • Education creates a sense of belonging to ASEAN Community • Education contributes to understanding of the richness of ASEAN’s history, languages, culture and common values

  7. Higher Education Policy • Aim of Higher Education policy to expand access and enhance opportunity to pursue and achieve high-quality education and promote employability and mobility. • In a time of financial crisis, universities must preserve access and affordability for low-income students as recession cannot be the rationale for reducing opportunity and increasing the financial burden on students and families.

  8. With rising unemployment, the need and demand for higher education will increase as displaced workers seek new skills. • Tuition escalated as family income flattened, costs and prices increased, sparking concern among policymakers & the public that sustaining a high quality, affordable & accessible education is vital.

  9. Equity & Access • Equity (equal opportunity) refers not only to the openness of Higher Education in terms of access but also in terms of success • Access is more than “getting through the door” • Higher access rates are not meaningful if they are combined with high dropout rates • Challenge of offering education to everyone maintaining quality standards & relevance

  10. Quality Assurance • QA in higher education has risen to the top of the policy agenda. • An increasing emphasis is being put on “outcomes” of higher education. • OECD’s assessment of learning outcomes focuses on interaction between student & faculty, career expectation, completion & success in finding a job.

  11. Creating ASEAN H.E. Area Higher education has a vital contribution to make in realizing an ASEAN of knowledge society that is highly creative and innovative... ASEAN can succeed if it maximizes the talents and capacities of its citizens and fully engages in lifelong learning as well as in widening participation in higher education.

  12. Process of Creating H.E. Area • It is important to harmonize ASEAN education system to facilitate free flow of skilled labor by strengthening quality education through excellent teaching & innovative research. • ASEAN higher education area making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable & compatible to recognize degrees for student mobility.

  13. ASEAN Recognition Convention stipulates that degrees and periods of study must be recognized unless substantial differences can be proved by the institution. • UCTS or ACTS is a standard for comparing the study attainment and performance of students whose credits are awarded with a grading system to provide a common currency to facilitate the transfer of students and their grades.

  14. University Ranking • Worldwide rankings based on teaching & research performance, citations and student quality (alumni & staff winning Nobel prizes) • The rankings of academic institutions favor universities that use English as the main language of instruction and research. • The wealth of nations and universities plays an important role in supporting top-quality research universities.

  15. Concentration of talent & abundant resources • All indicators are research indicators: publications and citations. • Only one indicator is relevant to social sciences and humanities.  • Four indicators are biased toward science & technology.  • Only English language journals are used for publications and citations.

  16. New Missions of University • Higher education must encourage the creation of new forms of knowledge, dissemination through introduction for innovation, and the training of teachers and students. • Structures must be devised that allow all knowledge to be transmitted to the whole of student body.

  17. Stimulate the renewal of knowledge in research institutions, innovation centers or professional organizations. • Students need to be educated through research to greatest possible extent.

  18. Research & Innovation • Invention is the production of knowledge, and innovation is the adoption by society of its value as measured by the demand for new goods and products. • The innovative entrepreneur is the intermediary who turns inventions into marketable innovations.

  19. Research linked to ASEAN needs • Sustainability • Climate changes • Millennium Development Goals that could have impact in the future. • Focused on the local application of ASEAN knowledge & the development of local science & technology capacities.

  20. Sustainagilitya sustain agility is the capability of adapting to changes by coaching to foster continuous learning • A new wave of lower cost, green innovation • Harnessing the inventive talent in every university • Open innovation: new ways to achieve rapid development of green technology • A roadmap for sustainable success

  21. How to encourage green innovation inside your organization • How to develop green technology faster • How to adapt rapidly to stay ahead, strengthening your brand & image • How to be successful green entrepreneur • How to create a new green business, and bring green products to market

  22. Our Challenges The consequence of ASEAN Community is to create a more comparable, compatible and coherent system of higher education. Six strategic policies: 1. ASEAN Higher Education Area: harmonization of ASEAN higher education so that academic degree and QA more comparable and compatible 2. ASEAN Recognition Convention: recognize degree and period of studies

  23. 3. UCTS or ACTS: a standard for comparing performance of students whose credits are awarded with a grading system for transfer 4. Migration management of growing regional labor market 5. Human-capital pooling: productivity enhancement and recognition of skills 6. ASEAN productivity and standard center for competency development

  24. For sustainability, Universities should promote research to nurture educational innovations and focus on energy efficiency & conservation and understand the theoretical and practical shifts in education from industrial capitalism to green capitalism & from a dependent oil-based economy to an efficient, self-sufficient renewable & green energy system.

  25. Major Concerns Need Attention: In the past 4 conferences, we focused on the need to enhance cooperation in education and research concerning global warming, disaster management, alternative energy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, quality assurance and university ranking. Ambassador Hatta is concerned with the pace of progress in academic co-operation between Thailand and Indonesia with a plan of action.

  26. ASEAN Way is the consensus method of decision making based on persuasion and friendly advice and the preference for informality and loose arrangements depending on personal relations among leaders and peer influence and reliance on agreement of common interests rather than on binding legal commitments.

  27. This is also related to the question of frequent changes of leadership • New Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Indonesian State Universities • New Chairman of the Council of University Presidents of Thailand • New Director-General of Higher Education of Republic of Indonesia • New Secretary-General of the Commission on Higher Education of Thailand • New Ambassadors and Ministers of Education

  28. visionary Leaders ASEAN If we go back to the beginning of ASEAN in 1966 to identify the leaders in ASEAN, the Thai foreign Minister ThanatKhoman drafted the Bangkok Declaration & the Indonesian foreign Minister Adam Malik wrote the concept paper for the new association. Both were visionary leaders in founding ASEAN and today we may witness academic leaders from Thailand and Indonesia to initiate the process to assist in building the ASEAN Community

  29. At the closing of the first Thai-Indonesian Rector Conference in Bangkok on 28 December 1995, former Ambassador Ibrahim Yusuf agreed with my proposal to appoint a standing committee to devise a plan of action for the follow up activities: 1. Joint degree program. 2. Joint research and publication. 3. Mutual recognition of degree and credit transfer for student mobility. 4. Exchange program for faculty, staff and students. 5. Exchange in art and culture. 6. Establishment of Indonesian and Thai study centers.

  30. We need to strengthen synergies between our 2 countries by stressing importance of cooperation to address development challenges of the ASEAN Community May I bring to your attention the appointment of a longer-term joint coordinating committee to ensure continuity of academic co-operation between Thailand and Indonesia to help in the process of building the ASEAN Community.

  31. Thank You!!

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