AUN News

The 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting was conducted in Vientiane, Lao PDR, hosted by National University of Laos and co-hosted by the AUN Secretariat. In this year’s Meeting, eleven Presidents, Rectors, Vice Chancellors, and more than fifty representatives from twenty-eight AUN Member Universities across ten ASEAN Countries participated in the Meeting, which was held under the encompassing theme “University Excellence and the Next Frontiers of ASEAN Higher Education: How AUN Member Universities Think, Lead, and Manage”.

Environmental sustainability and biodiversity conservation are crucial for the livelihoods of all citizens of ASEAN countries. Our current and future leaders ought to find the balance between socioeconomic development and the protection of remaining natural resources. The global conversation surrounding our climate laws and regulations now must center on disasters, displacement, and mitigation. The ethics webinar offered a platform for the contemplation of the ethical responsibility of environmental sustainability and a deep reflection on the current systems of production that produces such crises.

The 15th SHARE (Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region) was held in Hanoi, Vietnam on 27 - 29 July, 2022. Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti attended the event to give his remarks regarding the roadmap on the ASEAN Higher Education Space 2025.

The African Credit Transfer System (ACTS) workshop was launched during the HAQAA2 Advisory Board meeting on 8th June 2022 in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire, Africa. The workshop was successfully held in order to revive the discussion on ACTS which entails harmonization of curricula and promotion of academic mobility in Africa. The ASEAN University Network (AUN) Executive Director, Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti shared his remarks upon the credit transfer systems in Southeast Asia among the discussion of challenges and solutions to develop the African harmonization system.

As travel restrictions loosen around the world, AUN-QA has taken the opportunity to organize an onsite courtesy visit to partnered universities in Indonesia: UGM, UBAYA, and UMM during May 29 to June 3, 2022. The goal of the visit is to discuss future plans in the assessment process and inform partnered universities about upcoming AUN events, activities, and projects. This event marks a milestone in the return of onsite events in the future.

The Asia Universities Summit, 2022, was held at Fujita Health University, Japan, by Times Higher Education from 31 May to 2 June, with the theme “Facing the future, creating academic talent.” Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti, the ASEAN University Network (AUN) Executive Director, was a keynote speaker at the summit, highlighting issues related to university leadership, governance and quality standardization.