AQAN - ASEAN Quality Assurance Network
Between 2008 to 2018, Department of Higher Education (DHE) was a full member of AQAN represented by the Director General Dr. Phonephet Boupha. In September 2017, AQAN has conducted the AQAN Executive Committee Meeting and Quality Assurance workshop, co-hosted by DHE and ESQAC, in Pakse, Champasak Province, Lao PDR. Since 2018 the next year, the full member of AQAN from Lao PDR has been changed from DHE to ESQAC or DEQA at present.
The Inaugural ASEAN Quality Assurance Agencies Roundtable Meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur from 6 to 8 July 2008. It was co-organized by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) and the Bangkok-based SEAMEO-RIHED. It was attended by heads of Quality Assurance Agencies and, in cases where there is no formal quality assurance agency, by representatives of ministries responsible for quality assuring higher education from all ASEAN countries. As an Inaugural Roundtable, the country representatives presented a general overview of quality assurance in higher education in their respective countries. These presentations were compiled and published as proceedings, and distributed to all members.
The main objectives of the Inaugural Roundtable were to promote networking among ASEAN QA agencies, to learn about each other’s system of assuring quality in higher education and to consider the establishment of an ASEAN QA network.
The 2008 Roundtable Meeting agreed to adopt the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Establishment of ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN).
