SPECIAL TOPIC

IN
ASEAN INTEGRATION

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Seminar Topic I – CONCEPT OF ASEAN INTEGRATION
Topic 3 – CHALLENGES OF ASEAN INTEGRATION
Seminar Topic 2 – ASEAN INTEGRATION: IMPACTS ON EDUCATION IN THE
REGION
Topic I – EDUCATION IN ASEAN

Topic 3 – CHALLENGES OF ASEAN INTEGRATION

Despite the numerous challenges it has faced over the last half-century,
ASEAN has made significant progress. The coalition has been praised for its remarkable
effort to promote and sustain peace in the region and globally. Although ASEAN has
been hailed for its extraordinary achievements in facilitating and fostering regional and
global peace, there are may challenges this grouping has to overcome.

The underlying challenges that ASEAN has faced for a long time include:
 Lack of upholders who can ensure the organization’s continuous existence and
vitality, as well as a lack of solid foundation to ensure that its common decisions
are implemented.
 ASEAN’s overall health, internal and external conflicts, such as border conflicts,
illegal migration, ethnic upheavals, and concerns about natural resources
depletion, all pose threats.
 Graft and corruption, demographic differences, unequal social progress,
disparities in economic progression and technology adaptation, environmental
degradation, politics, and the troubling rise of authoritarianism.

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As a result, the ASEAN must endeavor to address the following issues:

1. Maintain its role as a peacemaker by growing its assets and elevating its status
in the region to impose rule of law.
2. Preserve geopolitical stability and healthy regional relations.
3. Develop and update new business models.
4. Increase economic growth and openness
5. Be adaptable when it comes to changing demographics.
6. Ensure inclusive growth and long-term development for its members and the
organization as a whole.
7. Consistent growth of the digital economy in the region.
8. Encourage interdependence in the economy.

Seminar Topic 2 – ASEAN INTEGRATION: IMPACTS ON EDUCATION IN THE

REGION

Introduction
ASEAN has failed to realize its long-term goal of becoming a unified
Sociocultural, economic, and political entity. As a result, one of the areas in which
education plays a key role is education.

ASEAN has begun to promote educational partnership among its member

states. It’s also wants to foster joint research developments and improve student and
staff exchange through cooperative credit allocation and other permitting procedures.

Topic 1 – EDUCATION IN ASEAN

“Develop human resources through closer cooperation in education and life-long

learning, and in science and technology, for the empowerment of the peoples of ASEAN
and for the strengthening of the ASEAN Community” (ASEAN Charter)

Education is an important agency in building the ASEAN community. It is the

main vehicle to raise ASEAN awareness, inspire the “we feeling” and create a sense of
belonging and understanding of the richness of ASEAN history, languages, culture and
human values. Education among young peoples is seen as the fastest and most
effective means to create awareness and pride in being part of ASEAN.

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 Education is a powerful transformative force in the lives of ASEAN peoples.
Inclusive and Quality education is key to the sustainable development of the Region.
Quality education leads to better health outcomes, higher social capital, peaceful and
gender-equal societies and decent work opportunities. It prepares ASEAN’s human
resources to be resilient, competitive and ready to face an ever-changing future. Aside
from being a powerful driver of social and economic development, education has the
potential to raise ASEAN awareness and foster a regional identity.

ASEAN support global and regional commitments in education by promoting

lifelong learning underpinned by the principles of equity, inclusion and quality. Specific
priorities include advancing future-ready education at basic and higher education levels
and technical and vocational education and training; ensuring inclusive education;
building the capacity of education personnel; and mobilizing resources for education
through partnerships with various key stakeholders.

Highlights of ASEAN’s work in education includes:

1. Support for students and learners transition to the workforce through internship
opportunities, higher education scholarships and responsive skills development.
2. Support for teachers and vocational trainers on the latest teaching methods and
strategies.
3. Advocacy to reach out-of-school children and youth.
4. Advocacy for safe and resilient schools.

The purpose of education in ASEAN is to encourage long-term educational collaboration

among its member-states while also improving educational quality:
1. To close development gaps,
2. To equip young for regional leadership, and
3. To boost people’s competitiveness. 2014 (ASEAN Secretariat).

ASEAN’s Objectives

1. Create a national skills framework modeled after the ASEAN skills recognition
framework.
2. Increase student mobility.

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 3. Promote superior mobility of its trained and expert workforces through ASEAN
regional support mechanisms and effort to protect and advance educational and
professional standards.
4. Create an ASEAN capability-based occupational standard.
5. 5. Encourage the creation and promotion of a unified set of competencies as a
benchmarking tool for mutual recognition among ASEAN members.

ASEAN’s Achievements

1. Student’s Mobility
2. The official website of the United Nations
3. The ASEAN Credit Transfer System is a system that allows members of the
ASEAN to (ACTS)
4. ASEAN Plus Three working Group on Mobility of Higher Education and
Ensuring Education Quality Assurance Program of the European Union to
Support Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (UN SHARE)
5. Common curriculum for Entrepreneurship in ASEAN
6. AUN-SEED NET
7. Skilled Workers’ Mobility
8. Engineering Services MRA (2005)
9. Nursing Services MRA (2006)
10. Framework Arrangement for Mutual Recognition of Surveying Qualifications and
MRA on Architectural Services (2017).
11. Medical Practitioners MRA, Dental Practitioners MRA, and Accountancy
Services MRA Framework (2009)
12. The creation of an ASEAN Regional Qualification Framework and a System for
Recognizing Tourism Professionals (2008)

Submitted by:
Eunillie R. Catuday
BSEd Math 4
FIRST SEMESTER S.Y. 2022-2023
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