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Are you an employer working in Lao PDR?

Check how REAL project can be relevant for you and how you can get involved

REAL project promotes a Higher Education (HE) reform process aimed at making HE in Laos more relevant and attractive, HE programmes better designed and balanced in terms of student workload, and HE teaching more effective.

REAL partner universities – NUOL, SU, SKU, & CU – will be working on developing stronger links with labour market representatives. So if you are an employer/ industry representative interested in

(1) sharing your thoughts on what will make HE studies in Laos more relevant and HE graduates more attractive to employers, and/or

(2) supporting HEIs in Lao PDR in their task of preparing employment-/industry-ready graduates, please get in touch with REAL Project institutional coordinators at REAL partner universities

NUOL

Dr. Soubin Sisavath

SU

Mr. Thavone Panmanivong

SKU

Ms. Phetsavanh Somsivila

CU

Mrs. Nonghkane Phanthanalay

Request their contact details via this site Contact Form.

Consultation about the kind of graduates Lao society needs


May-June 2025 – REAL Consultation about what students need to know, be able to do and what skills and competences will make it easier for students to find employment or become successfully self-employed – we will be looking for labour market representatives who employ graduates from the Bachelor programs listed below.

– Food Technology,
– Electrical Engineering,
– Veterinary Medicine,
– English Language,
– Transportational Engineering and Logistics Engineering, 
– Animal Science/Livestock,
– Rural Development and Business Extension,
– Business Management, or
– Tourism and Hospitality

If this is your case, please get in touch with us.

REAL Dissemination Events

If you would like to first learn more about the project, here are the future REAL Dissemination Events you can take part in:

[watch this page to see the dates and registration links when these are published]

  •  29 August 2025 – REAL Open Session 2 (Vientiane)
  • December 2025 – Real Open Session 3 (Champasak)
  • March 2026 – REAL Online conference on Graduate profiles that respond to the needs of Lao society + REAL Events to discuss the findings of the consultation at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • April 2026 – REAL Open Session 4 (Vientiane)
  • May-June 2026 – “Using Learning Outcomes to Ensure Feasibility” seminars at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • August 2026 – REAL Open Session 5 (Vientiane)
  • November 2026 – Linking Learning Outcomes with Student Workload as a key element in Internal Quality Assurance” sessions at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • December 2026 – REAL Open Session 6 (at SKU)
  • February/March 2027 – REAL Online conference on Measures to attract students to higher education studies + REAL Events to share the resources produced at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • April 2027 – REAL Open Session 7 (Vientiane)
  • May – June 2027 – Workshops on Estimating Full Student Workload as a building block for OBE implementation at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • October 2027 – REAL Open Session 8 (Vientiane)
  • February – March 2028 – REAL Online conference on Strategies for engaging different stakeholders in jointly improving the relevance and ensuring the added value of HE studies in Laos + REAL Events to discuss effective strategies at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU
  • April 2028 – REAL Open Session 8 (Luang Prabang)
  • October 2028 – REAL National Dissemination Event (Vientiane)
  • November 2028 – January 2029 – REAL Final Dissemination Events at NUOL, SU, CU & SKU

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