TABLE 1
FROM:
World Regionalization of Higher Education: Policy Proposals for International Organizations
César de Prado Yepes
BACK TO ARTICLETable 1. Regional processes touching on higher education
| Geographical region | Regional process | Attention to (higher) education |
|---|---|---|
| America | Organization of American States North American Free Trade Agreement Latin America Andean Pact Mercosur | Inter-American Organization for Higher Education since 1979 Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration since 1990s. Instituto Internacional para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura. Unión de Universidades de América Latina, 1949 Convenio Andrés Bello since 1970 Grupo Montevideo since 1991 |
| Africa | Southern Africa Development Cooperation African Union | Protocol of Education and Training since 1997 Not yet |
| Arab world | League of Arab States Gulf Cooperation Council | Not yet Since 1985. Exchange of faculty and students |
| Europe | Council of Europe 'Bologna Process' (over 40 countries) European Union (now 25 countries) | Suggesting education collaboration since 1949 Ministerial meetings since 1998 Yes, Treaty of Rome of 1957 on education Ministerial meetings to supervise the Erasmus programme of the European Commission since the 1980s |
| East Asia | Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN+3 (China, S. Korea and Japan): goal of East Asia Community | South-East Asia Ministers of Education Organization since 1960s Regional Institute for Higher Education and Development created in 1970 ASEAN Ministerial meeting in 1971 ASEAN University Network since 1995 ASEAN+3 leaders' political declaration (including education) in October 2003 and subsequent working group |
| East Asia's inter-regional dynamics | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Asia Europe Meeting | University Mobility of Asia and the Pacific to promote mobility and credit transfer, since 1993 Asia-Europe Foundation with some higher education activities, since 1997 |
| Eurasia | Commonwealth of Independent States | Signs of recent Russian expansion into Central Asia |
| South Asia | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | Human Resource Development Centre in Islamabad, since 2002 |
| South Pacific | Pacific Islands Forum | University of South Pacific, since 1969 |
