The AIMS Impact, 10 Years On: Internationalisation at Home of ASEAN Higher Education Institutions (Pengantarabangsaan Di Institusi Pengajian Tinggi ASEAN: Selepas 10 Tahun AIMS)

Yazrina Yahya, Doria Abdullah

Abstract


Internationalisation has been infused into the core activities of higher education institutions in ASEAN for the past 15 years. Various efforts have been taken to ensure that internationalisation is infused into the higher learning institutions. The efforts are impart through collaborations between the higher learning institutions with various organisations and associations such as ASEAN University Network (AUN), The ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS), Support for Higher Education in ASEAN (SHARE) and various others. AIMS is a regional mobility programme designed with the objective of encouraging regional mobility among students and staff of ASEAN higher education institutions (HEIs), consequently support and accelerate ASEAN’s vision of an integrated community. The objective of the paper is to review the impact of the programme on participating HEIs, 10 years after it is implemented in the Southeast Asian region. It is argued that the biggest impact of AIMS is the introduction of the internationalisation concept to ASEAN HEIs. Participating HEIs benefit through internationalisation of curriculum, where they incorporate international, intercultural, and/or global dimensions into the content of the curriculum. Their student and staff population also experience development of intercultural competencies through various on-campus integration programmes introduced. Above all, the overarching intention of organising AIMS is to stimulate internationalisation at home among the ASEAN HEIs. Each initiative has to be ‘by design’; in other words, through deliberate design and planning, in order to benefit the overall campus community.

 

Keywords:  Internationalisation; Higher education; ASEAN; AIMS; International mobility

 

Abstract 


Pengantarabangsaan telah mula dijalankan di institusi pengajian tinggi di ASEAN semenjak 15 tahun yang dahulu. Pelbagai langkah telah diambil untuk memastikan pengantarabangsaan dapat dilaksanakan di institusi pengajian tinggi. Kerjasama ini dilakukan di antara pihak institusi pengajian tinggi dengan pelbagai pihak di antaranya ialah “ASEAN University Network” (AUN), The ASEAN International Mobility for Students” (AIMS), “Support for Higher Education in ASEAN” (SHARE) dan lain-lain. AIMS merupakan program mobiliti serantau yang telah dibangunkan untuk menggalakkan mobiliti dikalangan pelajar dan staf di institusi pengajian tinggi (IPT) di ASEAN. Ia juga untuk menyokong dan membantu mempercepatkan visi ASEAN untuk mencapai komuniti ASEAN yang lebih berintegrasi. Objektif kertas ini ialah untuk melihat kesan program yang dilaksanakan oleh IPT yng terlibat selepas 10 tahun ia dilaksanakan di rantau ASEAN. Kesan yang paling banyak dibahaskan ialah pengenalan konsep pengatarabangsaan kepada IPT di ASEAN. IPT yang mengambil bahagian mendapat faedah melalui pengantarabangsaan kurikulum, yang mana topik berkaitan pengantarabangsaan, silang budaya dan/ atau dimensi global dimasukkan ke dalam kurikulum. Pelajar dan staf di institusi yang terlibat juga dapat meningkatkan kemahiran diri melalui pembangunan kompetensi  silang budaya yang dilaksanakan melalui integrasi program yang dijalankan. Sungguhpun begitu, matlamat utama sebenar program AIMS ialah untuk menggalakkan pengantarabangsaan di setiap kampus di IPT ASEAN yang terlibat yang mana setiap inisiatif yang dilaksankan adalah mengikut perancangan kampus tersebut.

 

Kata Kunci: Pengantarabangsaan, Institusi pengajian tinggi, ASEAN, AIMS, Mobiliti


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