Declaration on Internationalization in Higher Education In ASEAN (Model ASEAN Summit)

DECLARATION ON INTERNATIONALIZATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASEAN

WE, the Heads of State/Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the occasion of the 2021 Model ASEAN Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on 13th July 2021;

RECALLING the Bandar Seri Begawan Declaration on Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment, adopted at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam on 22nd May 2013;

TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION the four priority areas and 20 specific programmes for implementation under the ASEAN Five Year Work Plan on Education 2011- 2015;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Eight Key Elements on Education Adopted at the 8th ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting (ASED) in Lao PDR, September 2014;

COMMENDING the on-going efforts in developing the ASEAN 5-Year Work Plan on Education 2016-2020;

REAFFIRMING the Cha-Am Hua Hin Declaration on Strengthening Cooperation on Education to Achieve an ASEAN Caring and Sharing Community, adopted at Cha-Am Hua Hin, Thailand on 24th October 2009;

DO HEREBY DECLARE OUR COMMITMENT TO:

1. Encourage and strengthen partnerships among universities of ASEAN countries, by providing a variety of scholarships to young talented applicants, introducing cultural field trips and expeditions to education programs to further unify cultural diversity among ASEAN nations; 

2. Implement an ASEAN academic franchise to eliminate the difficulty of credit score, by exchanging procedures for eligible applicants, providing domestic-based learning environment to local students, considering franchise only the specialized major or selected major that contribute the most to our country, and authorizing our local lecturers to be trained at franchisor institutions; 

3. Enhance the abilities and qualities of teaching by revising study programs for students to gain intercultural competencies, incorporating more up-to-date equipment to provide better quality in training to specific education courses, and providing training sessions to domestic educators to maximize overseas teaching efficiency while reducing costs; 

4. Monitor the effectiveness of ASEAN curriculums, by introducing necessary changes in order to provide students with up-to-date learning experiences, analyzing the current curricular education to ensure the quality of its courses, and incorporating transferable credits to other universities in ASEAN member states; 

5. Support the significant role of academic and administrative staff in further development, by operating the exchange programs, exchanging the experience and the effectiveness to obtain the knowledge or skills to improve the advanced education from other well-established universities in ASEAN, improving and fostering various skills for student personal development and increasing academic opportunities; 

6. Improve students’ study performance and readiness for academic changes, by providing new knowledge for both national and international universities, strengthening research studies and knowledge production for students, observing students’ learning outcomes, creating more opportunities for academic pursuit, including secondary languages into curriculums, and implementing models of digital and blended learning in the classroom; 

7. Accept and display uncommonly planned administration for international applicants, by offering many types of assistance and services that covers immigration procedure and house funding to reduce costs and expenses for oversea students, recruiting and training faculty staffs to understand the diverse cultures of ASEAN countries, joining forces with local area offices and family volunteers that offer moral supports to exchange students, providing pre-class support to better prepare students for their oversea movements, and creating working programs that provide students with the opportunity to earn extra profits; 

8. Exchange information regarding the effectiveness of ASEAN countries' curriculum to establish stronger partnership and promote educational changes, by promoting cultural exchange between students to strengthen ASEAN identity, and providing both students and educators with the opportunity to travel overseas;

9. Provide incentives to encourage students to further pursue higher education, by providing more direct admission places for socio-economically disadvantaged students, facilitating greater access to education for both students and educators, and considering the importance of academic credits transfer procedure for students when they return to their home countries; 

10. Enhance the mobility of ASEAN learners in order to improve and boost the awareness of the importance of higher education in ASEAN, by improving the quality of higher education programs within the region to global standards, and offering overseas training courses to domestic and foreign educators. 

Done in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, this Thirteenth Day of July in the year Two Thousand and Twenty One.

Done by students from class M3.5 (2020-2021), DOE, IFL, RUPP

Global Studies 302: Introduction to ASEAN

Virtual Class, MS Team

Disclaimer: This declaration is written by student delegates solely for simulation and academic purposes. These views herein do not in any way represent the view of any Cambodian university and ministry and government or any other institutions in ASEAN. 

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