In the next academic year (2013-2014), a common credit transfer scheme will be set up and soon adopted by all higher education institutions in Greater Mekong Subregion including Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and neighbouring countries Japan and Korea, according to Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin, director of the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation – Regional Centre for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO–RIHED), which organised a regional workshop in Bangkok last November.  The higher education platform, similar to the European Union’s Erasmus programme, will encourage and increase student mobility within the region.

The student mobility programme will be piloted with selected universities and courses from the beginning of the 2013 academic year. The programme will be piloted for 18 months before an agreed credit transfer system can be rolled out to the whole region and beyond. Reports University World News.