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ID077401
Title ProperRegionalisation of higher education services in Europe and East Asia and potential for global change
LanguageENG
AuthorCésar de Prado Yepes
Publication2007.
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 NoteAsia Europe Journal Vol. 5, No.1; Mar 2007: p 83-92
Journal SourceAsia Europe Journal Vol. 5, No.1; Mar 2007: p 83-92
Key WordsRegionalism ;  ASEAN ;  European Union ;  East Asia