EU-ASEAN Credit Transfer System in engineering education

Developing a Quality Assurance Instrument in the Field of Inter-Regional Student Mobility

This article addresses the promotion of quality assurance in inter-regional cooperation between institutions of higher education in EU and ASEAN countries. For that purpose, it gives an overview on the development and implementation of the EU-ASEAN Credit Transfer System (EACTS) which is currently being developed as an instrument for quality assurance in the field of EUASEAN student mobility in engineering education. The article shows how EACTS provides a set of rules and procedures for the implementation of student mobility in connection with the promotion of a common quality culture in higher education across EU and ASEAN. In this context, EACTS builds on recent initiatives on qualifications frameworks in EU and ASEAN which are applied to support the credit transfer system.