The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) is dedicated in promoting the internationalisation of TVET institutions to improve international competitiveness and employability of TVET students in Southeast Asian countries.
Therefore, SEAMEO has been conducting the SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme since 2017 among its SEAMEO TVET Network upon the recommendation of the 3rd High Officials Meeting on SEA-TVET.
SEAMEO acts as a coordinator and facilitator for the overall exchange by providing a framework and platform to participating institutions to connect with each other, build partnerships, and enter into bilateral agreements for reciprocal exchange. Bilateral agreements between institution build the basis for exchange curriculum and mutual recognition of learning.
The SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme for 2022 has concluded. The Exchange Programme for 2023 will be announced here!
Institutions from the SEAMEO TVET Network are invited to join the introduction of the SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme.
Registration is open for interested and eligible institutions.
Registered Institutions are supported in finding suitable exchange partner institutions based on their prefered number of students, study areas, and level.
Institutions reach bilateral agreements for exchange and start perarations including:
Institutions conduct bilateral exchange according to their agreements.
SEAMEO will issue Certificates for all participating coordinators, teachers, students, buddies, and industry trainers.
Institutions from the SEAMEO TVET Network are invited to join the introduction of the SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme.
Registration is open for interested and eligible institutions.
Registered Institutions are supported in finding suitable exchange partner institutions based on their prefered number of students, study areas, and level.
Institutions reach bilateral agreements for exchange and start perarations including:
Institutions conduct bilateral exchange according to their agreements.
SEAMEO will issue Certificates for all participating coordinators, teachers, students, buddies, and industry trainers.
The SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme 2022 was conducted virtually from March 2022 to October 2022.
Over 800 Students and 300 Teachers from 75 Institutions across 6 Southeast Asian Countries participated in the exchange:
Brunei Darussalam (1), Indonesia (35), Malaysia (19), Philippines (17), Thailand (2), and Vietnam (1).
“Thank you SEAMEO Secretariat for implementing this virtual exchange. It made our poor but deserving students participate in the exchange which they consider a once in a lifetime experience.”
"Being a first time Coordinator […] for this SEAMEO TVET Virtual Exchange is both challenging and rewarding especially when you see your partners, students and participants smiling and enjoying the experience."
“Although we were physically apart, the learning was fun, and the virtual exchange served as a medium for us to better understand each other.”
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been identified as one of the seven priority areas for educational development in Southeast Asia from 2015 to 2035. This was officially confirmed by the Southeast Asian ministers of education at the Strategic Dialogue of Education Ministers (SDEM) meeting held in Lao PDR in September 2014.
In response to the ASEAN integration, the perceived mobility of skilled workers in the region, and the need to improve the quality of TVET in Southeast Asia, the 1st High Officials Meeting (HOM) on SEA-TVET was hosted by the Office of the Vocational Education Commission, Ministry of Education Thailand on 24-26 August 2015 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This was held under the theme: “Working Together towards Harmonisation and Internationalisation of TVET in Southeast Asia”.
As a result of the 1st HOM on SEA-TVET, the “Chiang Mai Joint Statement on Harmonisation and Internationalisation of TVET in Southeast Asia”, which included 4 priority industry areas were officially announced as the regional policy directions that emerged from the TVET High Officials Round Table Meeting.
The establishment of the “SEA-TVET Consortium” was one of the recommended strategies from the TVET High Officials from the Southeast Asian countries to promote TVET student and staff exchange, which shall include cross-country industrial attachment and internship programmes. In addition, the SEA-TVET Consortium will formalise the partnership among TVET institutions and industry sectors, and operationalise SEA-TVET activities, implemented by SEAMEO in order to achieve the following goals.
The SEA-TVET Consortium comprises TVET institutions in Southeast Asian countries that agree to work together in harmonising and internationalising their programmes through curriculum harmonisation, students and staff exchange, and industrial attachment, and resource sharing.
More information about the History of the SEAMEO TVET Exchange Programme
and the SEA-TVET Network can be found at:
tvetexchange(at)seameo.org
SEA-VET.NET is a Regional Knowledge Platform for TVET in Southeast Asia created, managed & hosted by SEAMEO VOCTECH with the support of GIZ-RECOTVET.
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