| ID | 077401 |
| Title Proper | Regionalisation of higher education services in Europe and East Asia and potential for global change |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | César de Prado Yepes |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | International provision of higher education services in both European and East Asian countries increasingly have a regional dimension. The European Union has since 1987 promoted the mobility of students, faculty, and content through its Erasmus Programmes. The 'Bologna' process that began in 1998/1999 now brings over 40 European countries together to create a European Higher Education Area by the end of the current decade. Meanwhile, East Asian countries (10 in ASEAN, plus P.R. China, Japan and South Korea) are also in a process of internationalising their higher education sector with an increasing regional component. Led by Japan, the "ASEAN+3 study group on facilitation and promotion of exchange of people and human resource development" advanced a comprehensive report, welcomed by the East Asian leaders meeting in October 2003, that strives for regional promotion of lifelong learning programs; credit transfer systems; scholarships and exchange programs for students, faculty, staff; research and development cooperation; 'centres of excellence' including e-learning; and curricular development as bases for common regional qualification standards among interested institutions. Both regional processes could reinforce each other in various ways, but possibly chiefly through the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process, unique among various recent inter-regional dialogue and cooperation processes around the world. Moreover, European and East Asian converging higher education processes could help the rest of the world through world inter-regionalism, and through an overhaul of international organisations dealing with higher education. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asia Europe Journal Vol. 5, No.1; Mar 2007: p 83-92 |
| Journal Source | Asia Europe Journal Vol. 5, No.1; Mar 2007: p 83-92 |
| Key Words | Regionalism ; ASEAN ; European Union ; East Asia |