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15 March 2024

Introducing AUN Experts: Official AUN-QA Assessors

By
Ninnart Ratanasukhon, AUN Programme Officer
Since its establishment in 1998, the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) Network has continuously grown to become a leading regional network of higher education quality assurance in ASEAN, with a team of seasoned experts and professionals driving its mission. In this third instalment of the AUN Expert Series, we proudly spotlight the Official AUN-QA Assessors, the bedrock of the AUN-QA Programme Assessment and AUN-QA Institutional Assessment.
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1 March 2024

Introducing AUN Experts: Official AUN-QA Training Specialists

By
Ninnart Ratanasukhon, AUN Programme Officer
AUN-QA Trainings serve as the venue for disseminating the seed of quality assurance culture and nurturing the next generation of quality assurance practitioners for the ASEAN higher education sector. In this second instalment of the Introducing AUN Experts series, we would like to introduce you to the official AUN-QA Training Specialists who are leading this mission with top-notch insight and valuable lessons to the quality assurance community of ASEAN.
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4 January 2024

An Enriching New Year for ASEAN Young Talents: Announcing AUN Youth Activities 2024 Line Up

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Noppanun Sookping, AUN Programme Officer
After bidding its festive goodbye to another fruitful year of 2023, AUN is actively working with the network’s premier Member Universities as well as external partners to make 2024 a year full of youth platforms and activities for different groups and cahoots of ASEAN university students and talents. This year, several of AUN Flagship Youth Activities make their grand return while the brand-new, ASEAN-first AUN Summer Camp aims to bolster the cross-borderly interregional cultivation of future-ready and ASEAN-rooted young talents.
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21 December 2023

2023 Wrap Up: AUN Activities Overview

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
2023 has been a highly eventful year for the ASEAN University Network (AUN) Secretariat and its thematic networks as many events and activities returned after the COVID pandemic subsided. As such, the AUN Secretariat is proud to present a wrap up to 2023, showcasing all the university network’s major events and activities throughout the year!
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1 December 2023

AUN-HPN’s 8th International Advisory Committee Shared Best Practices and Acknowledged Growing Mental Health Concerns

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
Staying healthy is critical to living a good life, but it has become increasingly difficult to do so in this current age of technology-enhanced convenience, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, and other related habits. Following the pandemic, the world has also seen the rise of mental health issues caused by the limited social interaction due to prolonged isolation. At the ASEAN University Network Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN) 8th International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting, the network’s member universities gather once again to address these pressing health issues in society and share their best practices in health promotion mission.
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23 November 2023

"Management and Strategy: How AUN-HPN Became a Driving Force for Regional Health Promotion" Has Officially Launched

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Noppanun Sookping, AUN Programme Officer
Since its establishment in 2014, ASEAN University Network Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN) has been actively contributing to university health promotion across the ASEAN region. In this connection, the book "Management and Strategy: How AUN-HPN Became a Driving Force for Regional Health Promotion" has been published by the AUN Secretariat team in coordination with AUN-HPN to observe and catalogue the good practices in managing the thematic network of universities. To do so, this book focuses on the work and perspectives of AUN-HPN’s past and current thought leaders as well as the observation of AUN-HPN flagship activities.
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17 November 2023

AUN-ICT Workshop Returned for Deepened Discussion on Quality Standardisation of University's ICT System and Management

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AUN Writer Team,
Prince of Songkla University (PSU), in collaboration with the Institute of Software Engineering and Quality Management (ISEM) and ASEAN University Network (AUN), co-hosted the workshop on the Quality Standardization of University's ICT System and Management (AUN-ICT) On 7-8 November 2023 in Bangkok. Set to continue with the work resulting from its first iteration, this workshop delved further into detail of what can ensure the success of AUN-ICT development and implementation as a world-class, comprehensive and multifaceted standardisation framework tailored specifically for universities.
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2 November 2023

The AUN-QA IQA Redesign Taskforce Team Assembled to Set the Path Forward for ASEAN IQA

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
Following the success of the Internal Quality Assurance System Design and Development Workshop in March 2023, Viet Nam, the AUN-QA IQA Redesign Taskforce was established and recently conducted its first meeting on 20 - 21 October 2023 in Bangkok. Through the intensive discussion on existing Viet Nam and Cambodia IQA frameworks and the root-cause analysis of the workshop in Viet Nam, the outcome of this meeting will pave the way for the future of ASEAN IQA and the task force will be at the forefront!
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19 July 2023

Continuing Strong in the Tide of Change: AUN’s Success Recapped in the 38th AUN-BOT Meeting

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Ninnart Ratanasukhon, AUN Programme Officer
The 38th ASEAN University Network Board of Trustees (AUB-BOT) Meeting concluded with an astounding success on 6 July 2023, with gracious hosting from Universiti Malaya. This annual meeting serves as an opportunity for the members of AUN’s Board of Trustees to be updated on the latest activities of AUN, discuss its direction, and set a vision for its future. This year, the members of our Board of Trustees were up for a long list!
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12 July 2023

Navigate the Changing Tide of Global Higher Education in the 14th AUN Rectors’ Meeting

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Ninnart Ratanasukhon, AUN Programme Officer
Change is fast approaching on all fronts, but ASEAN universities are ready to take on it. In the 14th AUN Rectors’ Meeting held on 5 July 2023, with the gracious hosting of Universiti Malaya, leaders from AUN Universities demonstrated how ASEAN higher education can navigate the changing tide of global higher education. Is AI changing education as we know it? Is knowledge from universities no longer relevant? Hear it from the leaders of AUN Universities.
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7 March 2024

“It takes an entire ASEAN QA community to raise even one single ASEAN assessor”, The Fostering of AUN-QA Assessors

AUN-QA as of today, stands as one of ASEAN’s strongest networks for QA practitioners that was established in 1998. Throughout over two decades of the network being in operation, it has laid the foundations of what is now known as the Assessor Training Workshop (AUN-QA Tier 2 Training) for AUN-QA Programme Assessment (PA) which began in 2013. Now in 2024, the workshop has seen 15 batches conducted for a total of 429 participants and in the 15th AUN-QA Tier 2 Training workshop, it was conducted alongside the 373rd AUN-QA Programme Assessment at Mahidol University, Thailand. During the workshop and PA, Associate Professor Dr. Tan Kay Chuan provided a speech that elaborated on the community effort in building AUN-QA assessors and how everyone in the community is on the same path towards quality assurance. Likening it to how it takes an entire village to raise a child, it indeed takes an entire QA community in ASEAN to raise even one single ASEAN assessor.
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7 March 2024

AUN-QA Overview: 375th, 376th, and 377th Programme Assessment

Continuing strong in 2024, AUN-QA delivered the successful conduct of 3 more programme assessments (PA) in the final week of February and the first week of March. In this overview, a total of 7 programmes were assessed in the following PAs: 1) 375th PA at Ton Duc Thang University in Viet Nam, 2) 376th PA at Burapha University in Thailand, and 3) 377th PA at Far Eastern University in The Philippines. Please continue to the full overview in the AUN website news to find details of the PAs for each university.
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15 February 2024

Reinforcing the South East Asian QA Culture: The Successful 15th AUN-QA Assessor Training Workshop (Tier 2 Training) at Mahidol University

AUN-QA has a large year ahead and started off 2024 with its latest batch of the Assessor Training Workshop for AUN-QA Programme Assessment (Tier 2 Training), hosted by Mahidol University. This long-standing training workshop just saw its 15th round conducted on 25 - 31 January 2024 bringing 40 more trainees from across the ASEAN Higher Education ecosystem to join the efforts to cultivate new batches of QA practitioners well trained with the knowledge of quality assessment.
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2 February 2024

The AUN-QA IQA Model Revision is Currently Underway!

The AUN-QA Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Model Revision Working Group had its first meeting conducted on 23 -24 January 2024, consolidating the first milestone towards revising the current IQA Model to ensure that it will serve the mission and goals of AUN-QA in the future. In the months forward, the Working Group will be fully hands-on in developing a model that will serve as an effective and comprehensive guide for universities that are looking to operationalize their own IQA systems or further bolster existing ones.
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2 February 2024

A Strong First Month for 2024, AUN-QA Overview: 372nd, 373rd, and 374th Programme Assessment

AUN-QA has been having a great start to the year of 2024 with the network now concluding the month of January with 3 more AUN-QA Programme Assessments (PA), including 10 programmes, successfully conducted. Continue on to this week’s overview for details of the 372nd PA with De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde in The Philippines, the 373rd PA with Mahidol University in Thailand, and the 374th PA with Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya in Indonesia.
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18 January 2024

AUN-QA Council Meeting Sets the Stage for AUN-QA Initiatives of 2024

The AUN-QA Council Meeting was conducted online on 8 January 2024 and saw extensive discussion on the future plans of AUN-QA with the highlights as follows: Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Development, Data-Driven Quality Assurance (DDQA), AUN-QA Community Projects, and improvements to current AUN-QA Assessment guidelines. In addition to the discussions, the meeting also included the appointment of a new lead assessor for AUN-QA assessments and welcomed 14 new associate member universities.