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Do you have a leadership position at any of Lao private Higher Education Institutions?

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. Support of HE leaders – from Lao public and private HE institutions – is key for the reform process to have the desired impact and be sustainable. This is why the REAL project has formed REAL Institutional Units at NUOL, SU, SKU & CU. We are also looking for more HE leaders from Lao HEIs to support the REAL reform process.

As a HE leader at a Lao HE institution, you are invited to take part in REAL Dissemination Events to learn

(1) what project has to offer,

(2) how your students, academics and HE institution can benefit from using the results,

(3) about the possibility of joining the REAL Outer Circle of REAL Reform Promoters – HE leaders who apply REAL methodology at programme and/or institutional level beyond the programmes/HE institutions who participate in the project directly

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 – 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 student, academic & graduate respondents from the Bachelor program 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 your HE institution offers such a program, please get in touch with us via the site Contact Form or by contacting one of the REAL Institutional Coordinators (see above).

REAL Outer Circle of REAL Reform Promoters

The project, with full support of MOES, will recognise special contributions of Lao HE leaders who apply REAL methodology at programme and/or institutional level beyond the programmes/HE institutions who participate in the project directly. 

If you are interested in finding out more and eventually joining the REAL Outer Circle of REAL Reform Promoters, 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)
  • 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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