The project activities will continue to strengthen the quality culture and provide common ground, and mutual trust, ensuring and enhancing quality within the national Higher Education systems, as well as at institutional levels. Based on the achievements of the first phase, the SHARE Extension will continue to strengthen and disseminate the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework (AQAF) at national and institutional levels through increased stakeholder dialogue. Taking strategic priorities of AQAN and recent results of respective policy advice workshops into account, SHARE will in particular facilitate the future sustainability and local ownership of the agency reviews scheme.
In the previous phase of SHARE, the programme delivered the implementation of pilot schemes for institutional assessments (AQAF quadrant 3) and External Quality Assurance (EQA) agency reviews (AQAF quadrant 1 and 2) with the aim of putting the AQAF into practice and collecting feedback on the applicability of the regional standards. In the SHARE Extension, four EQA agencies in ASEAN—which have not yet participated in the first round of reviews—will undergo an external review process, with a review panel composed of ASEAN and European experts. Adopting the recommendations which emerged from the analysis report of the first phase, these reviews will see ASEAN experts and the AQAN Secretariat in the lead role for coordination and implementation. EQAAs in ASEAN which participated in the SHARE pilot review exercise in 2017 will also share experiences from the review, exchange good practices, and obtain peer support to address persisting challenges.
Future SHARE activities also include consultancy visits to CLMV-based agencies in order to take forward the development of the external QA framework and to support staff from existing QA entities dealing with EQA (accreditation, evaluation and/or licensing) and involve national decision-making bodies in the discussions.
The SHARE Extension will continue to foster cooperation between ASEAN and European stakeholders by bringing expertise and dialogue through exchange of experiences from both regions. An Expert Advisory Group consisting of ASEAN and European experts will guide and shape SHARE activities, including in the field of QA, and compile policy recommendations. All QA-related activities during the SHARE Extension will support AQAN in taking ownership of the agency reviews and capacity building, including through exchanges with ENQA board members via strategic policy advice. For this purpose, a series of five online and on-site meetings (if possible) will be held before the end of 2022. Moreover, the SHARE Extension will provide capacity building and staff development to the AQAN Secretariat after a needs assessment to strengthen AQAN governance and staff structures. This will enable autonomous implementation and coordination of further review activities of QA agencies in the ASEAN region beyond SHARE, thus ensuring future sustainability and local ownership of the external QA of QA agencies. Through an organisational development grant, sustainability of AQAN’s work and SHARE’s effort will be promoted through a strengthened AQAN Secretariat, particularly to build up a core pool of permanent staff members. Finally, the SHARE Extension plans to deliver a follow-up seminar (or online seminar) to agencies in the Philippines (PAASCU), Indonesia (BANPT), Malaysia (MQA) and Thailand (ONESQA).
DAAD and ENQA are the technical lead of Result Area 2b. SHARE supports the ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN), which in 2016 has been granted the status of an annex II entity of ASEAN (or affiliated entity). AQAN has developed the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework, or AQAF (2014), and the AQAF Guidelines for the Reviews of External Quality Assurance Agencies in ASEAN (2020).
Past SHARE events conducted within the scope of Result Area 2b include:
SHARE supports the ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN), which has been granted the status of an official ASEAN body in 2016. AQAN has developed the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework, or AQAF, which can be downloaded here.
- SHARE Internal Quality Assurance Training, click here
- A SHARE Seminar on Qualifications Frameworks and Quality Assurance in the Digital Era in Jakarta, Indonesia, click here
- SHARE Regional Conference in Qualifications Frameworks and Quality Assurance in Bangkok, Thailand, click here
- SHARE "Peer Multiplier Training" (PMT) - Training of Traininers Seminar, click here
- SHARE National Workshop on Impact of Qualifications Frameworks and Regional Quality Assurance Standards on Higher Education in Lao PDR, click here
- SHARE National Workshop on the Impact of Quality Assurance Standards on Higher Education in Philippines, click here
- SHARE National Workshop on the Impact of Quality Assurance Standards on Higher Education in Cambodia, click here
- SHARE National Workshop on the Impact of Quality Assurance Standards on Higher Education in Malaysia, click here
- SHARE National Workshop on Impact of Qualifications Frameworks and Regional Quality Assurance Standards on Higher Education in Myanmar, click here
- SHARE Symposium on the Consequences of Regional Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks on Higher Education in Thailand, click here
- Fifth SHARE National Workshop on Impact of Qualifications Frameworks and Regional Quality Assurance Standard on Viet Nam's Higher Education in Da Nang, Viet Nam, click here
- Fourth SHARE National Workshop on Impact of Qualifications Frameworks and Regional Quality Assurance Standard on Indonesia's Higher Education in Jakarta, Indonesia, click here
- SHARE Guidelines – Review of External Quality Assurance Agency, click here
- Kick-Off for Newly Developed Review Scheme of External Quality Assurance Agencies in Manila, click here
- Fourth SHARE Policy Dialogue on Quality Assurance, click here
- Myanmar Visit on state of play on QA in Myanmar, click here
- SHARE Institutional Assesments towards the Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) standards of the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework (AQAF), click here
- Inaugural SHARE Policy Dialogue, click here
