Sunday, 28 February 2016

ASEAN-QA Phase 2 - 4th TraininIQA Workshop and Final Conference

The ASEAN-QA Phase 2 is a follow-up to the ASEAN-QA Phase 1 project. The project partners are DAAD, HRK, ENQA, Universitat Potsdam, AQAN, AUN, and SEAMEO-RIHED. It aims to build capacity in quality assurance in higher educations among the QA professionals in ASEAN universities including East Timor. 

The 4th TrainIQA workshop on "Quality Management and Its Linkages to Higher Education Management" was held from 23 to 25 February 2016 in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop was attended by 31 participants from universities in Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. At the workshop, Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert facilitated the session on "The MAD Way to Innovation in Higher Education". The workshop ended with a visit to Mahidol University.






The final conference of TrainIQA was held on 26 - 27 February 2016 in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. At the conference, the participants shared their projects with their senior management staff members who were invited to attend. 



3rd EU-SHARE Expert Working Group for Quality Assurance (EWG-QA)

The 3rd EWG-QA meeting was held from 22 - 23 Feburary 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting discussed the plans for institutional assessment, preparatory training, manuals, consultancy and national workshops for government agencies, external quality assurance agencies and universities in ASEAN.

Dr. Nantana Gajaseni, Executive Director, AUN and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert represented AUN in the meeting.