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Are you teaching at a Lao Higher Education institution?

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. Academics – those who teach at HE level – are key for achieving these reform goals. This is why the REAL project seeks to engage as many academics throughout Lao PDR as possible.

As a HE teacher at a Lao HE institution, you can
(1) take part in REAL Consultations and REAL Dissemination Events to make sure that your voice is taken into account and the final results really meet the student needs, and/or
(2) join REAL Dissemination Events to learn more about the REAL results and how you, your students, your programme and your HE institution can use the results, and/or
(3) join REAL Circle of Champions

If you are working at NUOL, SU, SKU or CU, the best way to get engaged with the REAL project activities is by getting in touch with REAL Project institutional coordinators at your universities

 

NUOL

Dr. Soubin Sisavath

SU

Mr. Thavone Panmanivong

SKU

Ms. Phetsavanh Somsivila

CU

Mrs. Nonghkane Phanthanalay

 

If you are teaching at another Lao HE institution, please read on.

Consultation about the kind of graduates Lao society needs

 

May-June 2025 –Academics’ voice required as part of the 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 – If you are teaching in one of the following Bachelor programmes in one of Lao HE institutions (beyond NUOL, SU, SKU & CU):

– 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

please reach out to us via the Contact Form to take part in the REAL Consultation about Relevance of Graduate profiles.

REAL Circle of Champions – Academics who help reform HE in Laos

The project, with full support of MOES, will recognise special contributions of Lao academics outside the REAL Programme teams who will apply REAL methodology to their own courses and programmes:

– conduct consultations about what makes HE degrees relevant for programmes other than those who participate in the REAL project directly, and/or

– apply REAL strategies for engaging different stakeholders in jointly improving the relevance and ensuring the added value of HE studies in Laos, and/or

– conduct curriculum mapping for own programme, and/or

– use REAL professional development resources in order to help those who teach in your program and at your HE institution learn to effectively implement learning outcomes and monitor student workload, and/or address other aspects necessary for effective implementation of Outcomes-Based Education and comprehensive Internal Quality Assurance culture, and/or

– help others at own institutions to learn about and implement REAL “Guidelines for planning for credit transfer”, REAL “Guidelines for engaging different stakeholders in jointly improving the relevance and ensuring the added value of HE studies in Laos” and REAL “Policy measures to guide CPD necessary for Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) and for Internal Quality Assurance for OBE”

If you are interested in joining the REAL Circle of Champions, please let us know via this website Contact Form or reach out to one of the REAL Institutional Coordinators (see above).

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)
  • 11 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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