Call for Proposal: Technical Consultancy – Design, Planning and Technical Writing of the Study on Enhancing Intra-ASEAN University Student Mobility

Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN region (SHARE) is an EU Grant funded project with an overarching objective to strengthen regional cooperation, enhance the quality, competitiveness and internationalisation of ASEAN higher education institutions (HEIs) and students, contributing to an ASEAN Community in 2015 and beyond. https://www.share-asean.eu/

The specific objectives of Programme are to:

1. Enhance the harmonisation of ASEAN higher education (HE) area through the formulation of ASEAN HE frameworks taking into account the European Union (EU) experience and work already underway across ASEAN through international partnership.

2. Support mutual recognition and student mobility among HEIs in ASEAN to strengthen people-to-people connectivity.

The expected results of Programme are:

1. Policy Dialogues on enhancement of strategic issues in harmonisation of ASEAN HE, including all relevant stakeholders (Result 1)

2. ASEAN Qualification Reference Framework and ASEAN Regional Quality Assurance further developed through our work, supported by ASEAN stakeholders.

     a) ASEAN Qualification Reference Framework (Result 2a)

     b) ASEAN Regional Quality Assurance (Result 2b)

3. ASEAN Credit Transfer System (ACTS) and ASEAN-EU Credit Transfer System (AECTS) further developed and rested through mobility with scholarship.

    a) ACTS (Result 3a)

    b) AECTS (Result 3b)

    c) ACTS and AECTS Student Mobility with Scholarship (Result 3c)

British Council as the organisation lead for EU SHARE programme implementation is responsible for the implementation of Policy Dialogues that started on 2015 and the selected consultant will need to collaborate not only with the British Council but also relevant stakeholders.

The British Council is seeking the services of design, planning, field research work and technical writing of the study on Enhancing Intra-ASEAN University Student Mobility, to provide the conceptual and technical skills to conduct assessment of intra-ASEAN university student mobility which includes the challenges and opportunities in fostering such mobility aiming at increasing the number of student mobility intra-ASEAN. This study consists of three sub-studies which contribute to the overall theme of enhancing Intra-ASEAN University Student Mobility.

This opportunity could have benefit for UK Institution to develop relationship and networking with regional organisation in higher education in ASEAN region and the fact that the result will create benefits for students and universities as well as provide further recommendations for policy makers in ASEAN.

The technical consultancy is expected to provide

1. Inception report: development of overall approach, work plan, management plan and budget.

2. In consultation with ASEAN Senior Officials on Education (SOM-ED) and ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC), appointed consultants will identify:

   (i) the scope of intra-ASEAN university student mobility assessment;

   (ii) datasets required and plan of action for access to data with relevant approvals.

   (iii) the conduct of interviews with relevant stakeholders;

   (iv) the need to conduct a workshop as part of the project implementation.

3. Final Report of all studies, with potential for future studies in a second phase.

Length of Consultancy and Timeframe

High level timeline for Phase 1 (June – Sept 2019)

For detailed information on the call and documents that need to submit, please see the attachments.