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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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24 May 2023

The ASEAN+3 Youth Cultural Forum Made a Grand Return From the Pandemic Hiatus

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
The wait is finally over! After the COVID Pandemic shook the world, the ASEAN+3 Youth Cultural Forum has been on hiatus for 3 years. But no more, the 18th ASEAN and 8th ASEAN+3 Youth Cultural Forum just recently made a grand return on 14 - 19 May, 2023 in Jakarta, Universitas Indonesia where 132 delegates from 9 ASEAN+3 countries were able to partake in this spectacular cultural event!
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16 March 2023

The Astounding Success of The First CALOHEA National Meeting at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
The CALOHEA Project has taken a major leap towards its goal of enhancing mobility and internationalization in Universities in Asia with the first National Meeting on 2 -3 March, 2023, at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia. This two-day event of knowledge sharing, open discussion, and a workshop is another step towards bringing Higher Education in SEA into a common space and enhancing mobility between SEA countries and even to other regions by implementing the 3 Core Recognition Mechanisms (RM3) into SEA Universities.
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4 January 2023

Special AUN-QA Feature: The AUN Executive Director Announces Line-up for 2023 at the 311th AUN-QA PA at Ton Duc Thang University

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Patitin Lertnaikiat, AUN Programme Officer
AUN Secretariat Executive Director, Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti, announced key projects for AUN at the 311th AUN-QA Programme Assessment at Ton Duc Thang University. 2023 will be an exciting year for AUN and ASEAN Higher Education as the wheels once again start turning in full motion after the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and shifting up another gear with plenty of high impact projects lined up throughout the year.
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29 September 2022

13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting and 37th AUN-BOT Meeting successfully held in Vientiane, Lao PDR

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AUN Writer Team,
The 37th ASEAN University Network Board of Trustees Meeting and the 13th ASEAN University Network Rectors’ Meeting, hosted by the National University of Laos and co-hosted by AUN Secretariat, were held on 27 - 28 September 2022 in Vientiane, Laos PDR. During the 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting, 11 Presidents, Rectors, Vice Chancellors, and more than 50 representatives from 28 AUN Member Universities across 10 ASEAN Countries participated in the Meeting to discuss and share their good practices, analyses, initiatives, and recommendations on AUN-related projects, programs, and activities.
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11 August 2022

AUN-QA’s Official Meetings in Viet Nam Series #1: Ministry of Education and Training

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AUN Writer Team,
On the morning of 20 July 2022, the official meeting was held between the AUN-QA team led by Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti, the Executive Director of the AUN, and the guest of honour – Assoc. Prof. Hoang Minh Son, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Training, alongside the representatives from Higher Education Department and Viet Nam Education Management Agency (VQA) under the Ministry.
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4 August 2022

AUN-QA’s meetings with stakeholders: Exploring current QA prospects in Viet Nam

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AUN Writer Team,
As the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued the Decision on recognising quality assurance activities of the AUN-QA in Vietnam, the AUN-QA has taken the opportunity to organise official on-site meetings with stakeholder organisations and partnered universities in Vietnam during 17 - 22 July 2022. The objective of this visit was to discuss the prospects of QA direction, share recent updates on QA development in the ASEAN region, and discuss further on possible collaboration in Viet Nam.
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30 June 2022

Announcing ASEAN Representatives for 2022 ASEAN-Korea Youth Summit!

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Noppanun Sookping, AUN Programme Officer
The application process for 2022 ASEAN-Korea Youth Summit has been closed! Thank you so much for the overwhelming interest and support for this huge platform to connect young talents and representatives from Korea and the ASEAN region. You can find the listing of successful ASEAN representatives to this year's Summit here.
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18 May 2022

AUN-QA and MyQAN connect in promoting Higher Education quality assurance in Malaysia

By
Noppanun Sookping, AUN Programme Officer
AUN-QA, in collaboration with MyQAN, organised “AUN-QA An Introduction of Potentials and Prospects” virtually on 12 May 2022, 9.00-10.30 AM (GMT+7). The event garnered 61 attendees from MyQAN Member universities, public and private universities in Malaysia.
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28 September 2023

Catching Up with September, AUN-QA PA Overview: 345th, 346th, 348th, 341st, and 349th PA

It has been nearly a month since our last AUN-QA Programme Assessments overview, and the AUN-QA team has been continuing going strong for the month of September, 2023. For this week’s overview, we have five PAs to cover with universities from Viet Nam, The Philippines, and Thailand bringing along a wide variety of programmes for the AUN-QA team to assess. No matter the field of programme, the assessors of AUN-QA are always ready to provide top quality assessment!
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28 September 2023

Explore the Future and Potentials of University-Industry Collaboration in the 6th ASEAN+3 Rectors’ Conference

The 6th ASEAN+3 Rectors' Conference, which broke new ground for collaborative innovation, concluded triumphantly on 21 September 2023 at Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. The primary discussion sessions of the meeting sparked new insights on sustaining innovation and accelerating growth through higher education institutions’ multi-sectoral collaborations with industry, government, communities, and more. The meeting not only marked an astounding return of the biennial platform but also showed a way to a future defined by collaborative progress.
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21 September 2023

4th AUN-University Innovation Entrepreneurship: Incubating ASEAN’s most promising talents

Leading ASEAN universities gather to discuss avenues to better collaborate in innovation and entrepreneurship; taking advantage of the resources and opportunities currently existing in our backyard to make real economic progress, truly benefiting the region, in the 4th iteration of the AUN-University Innovation Entrepreneurship (AUN-UIE) at Singapore Management University.
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1 September 2023

Triple Line-up of Vietnamese Universities: AUN-QA PA Overview: 342nd, 343rd, and 344th

The last week of August is here and we will be moving to the final quarter of 2023 very soon. But before we move on to 2023’s last quarter, for the second half of August, the AUN-QA has an interesting line up of not just one or two Vietnamese universities, but three! In a row at that too! It is not often the Programme Assessments take place in one country in two consecutive weeks, but this is one of those times. Perhaps this should also be remembered as the Vietnamese PA Overview special?
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1 September 2023

The Roads that Lead to Success, AUN-QA International Conference 2023

The pathway of quality assurance has many challenges and plenty of roads to take, but which is the right one? How do we overcome the roadblocks in the way? AUN-QA has the answers. In just next week, the AUN-QA International Conference will be at full throttle! Come hear the speakers of this year’s AUN-QA IC guiding us all to the road of success in quality assessment and driving university excellence. We assure you that there will be plenty of experiences, good practices, and success stories going around!
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24 August 2023

Study and Site-Visit Programme for Students from China

From 23 July - 5 August 2023, the AUN Secretariat welcomed two batches of Chinese students for a study and visit programme in Thailand! The five-day programme featured unique lectures from respected national and international institutions, hands-on cultural workshops, site visits to major international organisations, and cultural exposures at Bangkok’s historic landmarks. So strap up and join our students in their adventure!