"Reforming higher education in Laos:
installing the culture of comprehensive internal quality assurance necessary for implementing an outcomes-based approach."
What is the REAL Project?
Reforming Higher Education in Laos – REAL – project is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education Strand 3 Project. REAL promotes structural reform for the effective implementation of the outcomes-based approach, creating strategies, mechanisms and resources essential to modernise the Lao Higher Education System (LHES).
The required structural changes will be accomplished by a strong consortium of the highest HE authority in Lao PDR – MoES – together with four Lao public HEIs – NUOL, SU, CU and SKU, and with the support of four EU partners highly experienced in fostering modernisation of HE institutions and systems.
Teams of academics will work in constant dialogue with representatives of the highest national HE authority, engaging in this joint effort the labour market representatives, graduates, students, and actors of the pre-HE sector. REAL dissemination events will ensure that all LHES commits to sustaining the reform fostered by REAL.
With its focus on reform, modernisation, relevance and quality, as well as on the responsiveness of Lao Higher Education Sector necessary to facilitate the socio-economic growth and prosperity of Laos, REAL partners seek to benefit the higher education sector of Lao PDR with all its actors: students, academics and whole higher education institutions, organisations responsible for higher education and Lao society at large.
What Do We Want to Achieve?
The general objective of REAL is to promote structural reform for the effective implementation of the outcomes-based approach, creating strategies, mechanisms and resources essential to modernize the Lao Higher Education System (LHES).
The four specific objectives of REAL are as follows:
- Develop strategies that can ensure the relevance of HE sector, allowing universities in Laos to meet the socio-economic needs of the country.
- Implement mechanisms that can ensure the feasibility of HE programmes, supporting sustainable structural improvement and innovation at the level of LHES.
- Increase the capacities of individual academics, programme teams and universities in order to ensure the effectiveness of teaching required to implement and monitor the reform processes.
- Engage competent authorities at national and institutional level in defining and fostering full adoption of comprehensive internal quality assurance efforts that can ensure coherent and sustainable structural changes.
Consortium
The REAL project is implemented by the Lao Ministry of Education and Sports, four Lao public universities and four European partner institutions.
Lao partners:
European partners:
REAL Erasmus+ project: 101177156