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The CALOHEA project has made substantial strides in advancing medical education by promoting internationalisation and enhancing the recognition of higher education programs. Through its comprehensive approach, the project has addressed critical needs in medical education across ASEAN countries, benefiting students, faculty members, medical programs, institutions, and national educational frameworks. The project’s impact on students is…

The CALOHEA project is revolutionizing Teacher Education in Southeast Asia by enhancing internationalization and academic program recognition. By focusing on a Qualification Reference Framework of competency-based learning, student workload, and authentic assessment methods, the project aligns the educational system with global standards to meet the evolving needs of preservice teachers in the region. Incorporating competency-based…

The CALOHEA project is making a significant impact on Civil Engineering education across ASEAN, enhancing the international appeal and recognition of academic programmes. This initiative involves 14 universities from Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It is guided by European advisors Alfredo Soeiro from Universidade Do Porto and Emilien Azema from Universite…

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…

Written by Pablo Beneitone and Maria Yarosh, CALOHEA Coordination Team While authentic assessment is key if you want to prepare industry-ready graduates and make sure your students achieve complex learning outcomes, many academics believe that authentic assessment is very difficult, time consuming and even expensive to implement. To show that this is not necessarily the…

Written by Maria Yarosh and Pablo Beneitone, CALOHEA Coordination Team Authentic assessment asks students to perform tasks similar, if not identical, in nature, to what they can be expected to perform in the real world. At lower levels, authentic assessment tasks permit students to actually enhance their knowledge, skills and competences through completing the tasks,…

Written by Maria Yarosh and Pablo Beneitone, CALOHEA Coordination Team CALOHEA project has introduced academics, students, university authorities and policy makers in the ASEAN region to four complementary tools for measuring student workload: (1) Desk estimation – a tool that invites academics to estimate the student learning time for their course(s) and provides an overview…

From Pablo Beneitone and Maria Yarosh, CALOHEA Coordination Team The CALOHEA project has contributed to install the culture of student workload measurement as an integral part of curriculum design. Student workload includes: A. hours of direct interaction in a face-to-face or virtual learning environment between teacher and students. This includes lectures, seminars, laboratory or workshop…

On 1-3 July 2024, the 8th CALOHEA General Meeting convened in Bangkok, Thailand with participation from 64 CALOHEA experts and five European Experts. The meeting marked the final General Meeting for the CALOHEA Project, where members gathered one final time to discuss the impacts the CALOHEA Recognition Mechanisms brought to their respective countries and subject…

Written by Prof. Dr.  Richard Jugar, CALOHEA Subject Area Group Coordinator; Maria Yarosh and Pablo Beneitone, CALOHEA Coordination Team CALOHEA Regional Subject-Specific Qualifications Reference Framework in Teacher Education articulates key dimensions and sub-dimensions within any graduate’s profile and makes explicit what knowledge, skills and responsibilities correspond to each of the defined (sub-)dimensions.  It has been…