Written by Maria Yarosh and Pablo Beneitone, CALOHEA Coordination Team
Every higher education institution interested in promoting internationalisation needs strong teams of internationalisation champions – academics and administrative staff – who have the knowledge, skills and competences required to jointly make internationalised higher education reality for every student.
The CALOHEA project offers the ASEAN region a tool that can help guide individual and institutional capacity building efforts in this respect – the “CALOHEA Rubric for building strong institutional CALOHEA Teams & becoming Champions of Internationalisation of own Higher Education Institution through promoting active exploitation of the three Recognition Mechanisms at Institutional level and beyond”.
This rubric can be used by individual academics, by programme teams or by whole institutions. The three Recognition Mechanisms it refers to are:
1. Creation and use of Regional Subject-Specific Qualifications and Assessment Reference Frameworks to permit greater comparability of institutional degree programme profiles
2. Instalment of the culture of student workload measurement as an integral part of curriculum design
3. Implementation of authentic assessment of internationally comparable learning outcomes in degree programmes
Apart from the expertise in the 3 Key Recognition Mechanisms, the Rubric highlights the need to build a strong International Community of Champions: starting from programme and institutional levels, and moving onto the national and international levels.
University authorities are invited to use the CALOHEA rubric as a basis of an internal recognition scheme for Champions of Internationalisation.
Consult the CALOHEA Rubric at the CALOHEA Erasmus+ project website: https://calohea.org/
The CALOHEA Erasmus+ project is coordinated by the Tuning Academy of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the ASEAN University Network and is co-funded by the European Commission.
