Activities within ASEAN

AUN-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA)

The creation on ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) Networking was originated by the first Chairman of the AUN Board of Trustees (AUN-BOT), Dr. Vanchai Sirichana in 1998 in view that higher education institutions in ASEAN should strive to develop quality assurance networking as mechanism to reach and maintain high standard education, not just for one particular country but for ASEAN as a whole. Amid competitive environment of globalised world education, quality assurance is also an instrument for mutual recognition to and respect of differences among individual institutions including their diversified cultural and basic resources.

The initiative was welcomed by the fourth AUN-BOT meeting in Myanmar in 1998 and became an important priority of the AUN, particularly in the dimensions of teaching, learning, and management. In committing to this, the BOT also marked the year 1999 as the AUN year of quality education and convened the AUN-QA Network (AUNQANET) Task Force comprising administrators responsible for quality development in each member university with the aim to develop a common standard of quality by sharing experience and good practices.

Latest Activities

The 2nd AUN Actual Quality Assessment at Programme Level was kindly
organized by De La Salle University (DLSU) on 11-13 August 2008 in Manila.
The Assessment was attended by the AUN-CQOs’ Assessor Team and 13
observers from AUN Member Universities and the AUN Secretariat. The aim
of the assessment is to practice and give “Rating” which based on the
Appendix 5: Checklist on the Quality of a Programme in the AUN-QA: Manual
for the Implementation of the Guidelines.

The AUN-CQOs’ Assessor Team was consisted of 5 CQOs from the National
University of Singapore, Chulalongkorn University, Universiti Sains
Malaysia and the University of the Philippines. During the visit, the team
was divided into 2 small groups to assess 2 Undergraduate Programmes,
namely Bachelor of Economics under the College of Business and Economics
and Bachelor of Chemical Engineering under the College of Engineering. The
assessment was based on the self-assessment report, on-site verification
of the documentations and interviews with selected stakeholders including
faculty and supporting members, students, alumni members and employers.

Next Activity: The 3rd AUN Actual Quality Assessment at Programme Level is
scheduled to be held back-to-back with the 9th AUN-QA Workshop on
Mechanism for ASEAN Credit Transfer System on 10-13 December 2008 at the
University of Indonesia. For more information, please visit
www.aun2008.ui.edu

- Tentative Programme
- General Information

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