AUN News

NEAS Australia's Introduction Meeting garnered interest from nearly 50 participants from 15 universities across the ASEAN region. The meeting served as an informative platform for ELT institutions or departments to learn more about NEAS Australia's quality assurance services, highlighting the importance of multilateral cooperation in pursuit of educational excellence. The meeting ended on a positive notes with the possibility to enhance the quality of ELT professionals in the region.

The 320th and 321st Programme Assessment marked AUN-QA’s first return to Vietnam in the year 2023, and an exciting occasion it was. Lac Hong University (LHU) welcomed AUN-QA for the 320th Programme Assessment, the third assessment by AUN-QA for LHU, but the first one conducted on-site! AUN-QA was also honoured to return, once again, to Hanoi University of Public Health for the 321st Programme Assessment, which marked the fourth programme assessment for this trailblazer of public health education in Vietnam.

AUN-QA is carrying the strong momentum of last year into 2023 by starting with three programme assessments at Holy Angel University (HAU), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and Central Luzon State University (CLSU). The team is back and ready to provide more top quality assessments for another year!

On 18 January 2023, Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti, ASEAN University Network (AUN) Executive Director and Dr. Patrick Pheasant, Chief Executive Officer of NEAS Australia (National ELT Accreditation Scheme Ltd), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance towards the effective enhancement of the process and management of quality assurance in English language learning and to designate the direction to steer English language teaching communities forward.

NEAS is the global leader in quality assurance for the English Language Teaching (ELT) community with missions to support the achievement of quality outcomes for ELT worldwide, advance global quality assurance in ELT, and empower knowledge partnerships within the ELT community. NEAS’s proven expertise in independent quality assurance is embraced throughout the wider education community.

The University of Potsdam, ASEAN-QA, and AUN Secretariat cooperated together to bring the first onsite Training on Internal Quality Assurance (TrainIQA) Workshop ever since the pandemic occurred. QA Officers and senior higher education managers who are in charge of QA at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the ASEAN region were guided by TrainIQA Trainers through the entire training methodology. This workshop also brought many ASEAN QA Officers and University Leaders together to promote the exchange of ideas and further developing networks among HEIs in the ASEAN region. At the end of the workshop, participants were able to present their projects to institutional decision makers that have the capability of shaping the future landscape of ASEAN HEIs.