The ASEAN Integration 2015 compels member countries to align and harmonize their educational system with each other. How will it affect an individual's preferred profession or career? How much will be the financial burden of a country in relation to its capacity to pay, i.e., cost of schooling per capita? What would be its expected impact to the culture and social standing of the population? In what way will an educational system integration empower the people to make them active participants of political processes and governance?
First of all, I would appreciate knowing as to what degree the Philippines and other lands actually follow any ASEAN guidelines historically. How do average peoples in the Philippines (and other ASEAN member lands) feel that ASEAN has a positive role on their lives and professions?
If the influence of ASEAN in education is minimal and will continue to be minimal, the answer to your question may be obvious. However, it could be the reverse case--and I would love to know what these positive influences are or would be?
In the European Union, the penetration of fisrt the European Community (EC) and now the EU (European Union) has been vast.
The Philippines and other countries in southeast Asian region had established ASEAN not just for mutual defense (previously, it was named the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization, akin to NATO) but for stronger cooperation in the political, economic and socio-cultural spheres. By next year, it can be expected that a lot of those provisions for cooperation will be in place.
One of the basic tenet of ASEAN Integration 2015 is on higher education. Majority of the population of member-countries are not so aware of the direct impact of integration to their lifestyle. However, academicians are so concerned considering that those who came from so-called "low-quality" schools will be competing with those who graduated from high-profile universities. The manner of raising the bar of quality education is not so easy considering the fact that a lot of these countries are still in the middle stage of development. Thus, there are issues which are of grave importance that has to be addressed first before we can say that these countries are ready for integration.
Dear Gerry,
Would you say that some countries are much further along in following ASEAN guidelines in education than others? For example, let us say we would or could compare all the ASEAN countries--which are the most often attempting to follow the guidelines in various fields
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