REAL - Reforming higher education in Laos: installing the culture of comprehensive internal quality assurance necessary for implementing outcomes-based approach

REAL promotes the structural reform for the effective implementation of the outcomes-based approach, creating strategies, mechanisms & resources essential to modernise the Lao HE System (LHES). The required structural changes will be accomplished by a strong consortium of the highest HE authority in Lao PDR – MOES – together with the 5 Lao public HEIs, & with the support of 4 EU partners highly experienced in fostering modernisation of HE institutions & systems.REAL’s rigorous programme of reform-fostering activities targets 4 specific objectives:- Develop strategies that can ensure the relevance of HE sector, allowing universities in Laos to meet the socio-economic needs of the country.- Implement mechanisms that can ensure feasibility of HE programmes, supporting sustainable structural improvement & innovation at the level of LHES.- Increase the capacities of individual academics, programme teams & universities in order to ensure the effectiveness of teaching required to implement & monitor the reform processes. - Engage competent authorities at national & institutional level in defining & fostering full adoption of comprehensive internal quality assurance efforts that can ensure coherent & sustainable structural changes.Teams of academics will work in constant dialogue with representatives of the highest national HE authority, engaging in this joint effort the labour market representatives, graduates, students, & actors of the pre-HE sector. 99 dissemination events will ensure that all LHES commits to sustaining the reform fostered by REAL.REAL will benefit the HE sector of Lao PDR with all its actors: students, academics & whole HEIs, organisations responsible for HE & Lao society at large. With its focus on reform, modernisation, relevance & quality, on the responsiveness of LHES in order to facilitate the socio-economic growth & prosperity of Laos, REAL is fully in line with the objectives of projects supported under Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE Strand 3.