Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic provoked learning loss and devastating impacts on education systems worldwide, including higher education. Learning opportunities have been significantly disturbed in most countries in Asia and the Pacific, particularly for...

Higher education has a central role in accomplishing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in its three integrated and indivisible dimensions of economic, social and environmental development. The higher education sector has the responsibility of co...

When we talk about UNESCO’s higher education programme, we always mention the conventions on academic recognition as UNESCO’s most important work. Indeed, among its five key functions, UNESCO has chosen to use its standard-setting function as the entry...

February marked an important milestone for the future of higher education in Asia and the Pacific. China and Indonesia, two massive higher education systems within the E9 countries, signed a cooperation agreement between the Indonesia Cyber Education...

Abstract The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed the global outlook for international higher education. Given the recent rapid shift to online learning, the 2018 Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher...

As COVID-19 upends lives and livelihoods worldwide, the rapid growth of online learning is challenging the relevance of traditional higher education systems. Although efforts to promote and enhance the use of ICT in higher education in the Asia-Pacific...

The Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education was adopted at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference in November 2019, as the first United Nations treaty on higher education with a global scope. This new...