Academic quality enhancement through
institutional based mobility among ASEAN
higher education institutions
By A. Tjoa, T.A.M. Tilaar, S. Mustapa
TADULAKO UNIVERSITY-CENTRAL SULAWESI
TADULAKO UNIVERSITY
PALU-CENTRAL SULAWESI
Tadulako University is located at Central Sulawesi, a state
public University, has 8 faculties namely Education and
teacher training, agricultural, Natural sciences inclusive
medicine, Political and Social sciences, Economics, Law,
engineering, and the newest is forestry faculty
Presentation flows
International/partnership participation in quality academic
enhancement
Important of Collaboration and Institutional based mobility
Aims
To build a sustain and institutional based collaboration if possible
Quality is the totality of features and
characteristic of a product or service that
bear on its ability to satisfy given needs
Great value to stakeholders/customers
Academic quality encompasses activities and outcomes in
all areas of “academic work”
The scope of “academic work” includes teaching,
research, scholarship, administration and service to the
university and broader community
Making sure that the quality is what it should be
(enhancement of the quality from time to time is necessary)
Quality is a depended variable
External
Manpower
Materials/machinery
Environments
Quality
Methods
Measurement system
External components
partnership
University
to play a crucial role in producing high quality
human resources, in disseminating scientific
discovery and advanced knowledge through
teaching and educating future generations of
citizens
Contribute to good governance
(ethics, corruption)
Accelerated
by domestic,
international
collaboration
University
Sustainable Role
Sustainable education
To overcome social, economic, cultural and
environment problem that we faced (Unesco)
Using partnership participation and assessment
to improve academic quality of a higher
education institution
Exchange program, understood:
The value of exchange is an experience of a
lifetime, provides people with an
unforgettable awareness and lifelong
appreciation of each other.
Exchange “the academic
quality”
Institution A
Values
Ideas
Strategies
Resources
Institution B
Colla-area
X
X
X
Values
Ideas
Strategies
Resources
Sharing can be A=B, A>B, B>A
Collaboration
Collaboration can result in better management through i.e.:
Building understanding of complex, cross
problem through shared information
Promote problem solving rather than
procedural decision making
Create the potential to achieve joint gains rather
than minimally satisfying
Foster action by mobilizing shared resources
(people, technology, funding, expertise,
information, skills etc) to get work done
Build relationship, understanding and foster trust
Those benefits are not always easy to achievetypically responses are:
•difficult to devote sufficient time to collaboration
in order to maximize the benefits
•hugely costly in time and effort
•Some other difficulties reflected the geographical
context e.g. distances (transportation, availability of
technology)
Important is to has “genuine wish to collaborate”
and to minimize non benefit factors by better
master plan collaboration project, thus …..
Sustainable collaboration to improve academic quality
To have an INSTITUTIONAL BASED COLLABORATION PROJECT
Well practiced in EC: ERASMUS (within EU),
ERASMUS “EWC” (EU and Asia)
A good model to learn
Several partnerships have been carried out (on
going) between Thai-Indo, the most is U-U
Only covered/s few Universities in the collaboration
Institutional based mobility
Develop A Competitive
grant project (among
ASEAN Countries)
Institutional mobility based
guidelines
Call for proposal
One HEI as applicant, creates
collaboration (number of HEI and year,
country, and subject involved
depending on e.g. in guidelines)
Mobility: management/leadership, academic/non
academic staff, student (degree non degree)
International mobility – we now live in an
internationally mobile and global world. What better
time to prepare for this than as a University?