Topic 03:

CHALLENGES OF
ASEAN
 CHALLENGES OF ASEAN INTEGRATION

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 foundations to ensure
that its common decisions are implemented.
 CHALLENGES OF ASEAN INTEGRATION

• 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.
 As a result, the ASEAN must endeavor to address the following
issues:
1. 1. Maintain its role as a peacemaker by growing its assets and
elevating its status in the region to impose rule of law.
2. 2. Preserve geopolitical stability and healthy regional relations.
3. 3. Develop and update new business models.
4. 4. Increase economic growth and openness
5. 5. Be adaptable when it comes to changing demographics.
1. 6. Ensure inclusive growth and long-term development for its
members and the organization as a whole.
2. 7. Consistent growth of the digital economy in the region.
3. 8. Encourage interdependence in the economy.
 SEMINAR TOPIC II ASEAN
INTEGRATION: IMPACTS ON
EDUCATION IN THE REGION
TOPIC 01: EDUCATION
IN ASEAN
The purpose of education in ASEAN is to encourage
long-term educational collaboration among its member-
states while also improving educational quality:
1.1. To close development gaps,
2.2. To equip young for regional leadership, and
3.3. To boost people’s competitiveness. 2014 (ASEAN
Secretariat)
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.

ASEAN support global and Regional commitments in

education by promoting lifelong learning underpinned by
the principles of equity, inclusion and quality.
 Highlights of ASEAN’s work in education include:
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.
1. 1. Create a national skills framework modeled after the ASEAN skills
recognition framework.
2. 2. Increase student mobility,
3. 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.
1. 4. Create an ASEAN capability-based occupational standard
2. 5. Encourage the creation and promotion of a unified set of
competencies as a benchmarking tool for mutual recognition among
ASEAN members
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)