Merging and Demerging Education Ministries in Malaysia

2016

The purposes of this paper were to present a general overview of the background of Myanmar higher education, the higher education policy formulation, and the faced challenges related to its higher educational policies for promoting ASEAN community. In order to achieve the purposes, two research methods; documentary research and in-depth interviews were employed. The purposive random sampling was used to select the participants. The key informants were the executives in higher educational policy setting and the stakeholders. The data were analyzed by content analysis. The study demonstrated that higher institutions in Myanmar have been under the supervision of 13 ministries and are allocated budgets by Ministry of Education. At the same time, the universities are concerned with their own governance, administration, and respective ministries. The findings showed that the policy development process of the higher education has gradually transition from the highly centralized to be the p...

A look at the political framework of regional integration in ASEAN, and the higher education initiatives at the regional level arising from these frameworks. Examining how regional integration can further advance harmonisation of higher education in the wider ASEAN region.

International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2017

In facing the Asean Economic Community by 2015, each country should prepare to meet him, including Indonesia to be able to compete in the ASEAN region. At the time of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will certainly apply more labor competing seize employment opportunities among ASEAN countries, especially local labor in the country itself as well as those coming from Southeast Asia. Of course for workers who have high job competition, will have wider opportunities to earn profits. Then the quality of human resources must be improved, especially for university graduates, the college encouraged to produce quality graduates International equipped with professional skills, language skills and intercultural skills. But basically the universities should improve the quality of faculty, curriculum and facilities to meet international standards. In addition, universities are also required to develop good skills in cooperation with institutions or other parties and the development of student activity unit that is expected to create an educated human resources with the skills trained. By joining Indonesia later as a member of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015, will be many changes experienced by Indonesia. Indonesia could become a big country and capable of being "Man Of The Match" or it could even be worse off because of competition as the effect of the age.

Problems and Perspectives in Management

The vision of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) envisaged as a global ASEAN has impacts on all sectors, including higher education (HE), a key driver to the goal. However, it is still debatable whether HE can achieve it. This study aimed to draw insights into its impacts with a focus on opportunities, challenges, and implications for HE. This study employed qualitative, comparative, interpretive, and in-depth analysis of documents. The findings revealed that the progress of AEC has a great impact on HE in three areas. Prospective opportunities comprise the services sector and internal cooperation and collaboration. The sector accounted for approximately 50% of the real output in 2018. The top three countries were Singapore (68.9%), Thailand (59.9%), and the Philippines (57.8%). However, a crucial challenge is an inequitable access to digital-driven education due to inequitable access to the Internet among member countries. The gaps of subscribers and cellular phones lie between 94....

This article seeks to identify key trends and challenges of the AEC for the Thai higher education system by reviewing current research in the AEC, and official reports from the Thai Government and relevant international organisations. Demographic change, energy demands and the environment, future employment, decentralization of the country and development of local administrative bodies among many other trends will influence the Thai higher education system. This article considers four trends that result from the ASEAN Economic Integration and speculates on further trends covering the increasing importance of English language, restructuring of HEIs, programs in eight professions and the research-intensive universities.