Higher Education and Sustainability – Perspectives from ASEAN & Australia
This special issue of HESB features keynotes from the second ASEAN-Australian Dialogue (AAED), which addresses the needs of international education in relation to business and industry. We also look at how universities are incorporating sustainability education into their curriculum and university direction, alongside UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In this issue
- ASEAN and Australia: An Introduction
- Interview with Michael Fay, Convenor of the ASEAN Australia Education Dialogue
- Reflections on 40 Years of Doing Business in ASEAN
- Sustainability and Higher Education
- Admitting Humanity’s Exploitive Ties with Nature: Penang’s Pursuit of Sustainable Development
- Accelerating Education for Sustainability
- University Impact Rankings by SDGs: Sustainability Cities and Communities
- Quality Assurance and Engagement
- Strengthening Quality Assurance and Developing Global Standards in English Language Teaching Centres: Management in ASEAN and Australia
- Alumni Engagement in ASEAN
ASEAN and Australia: An Introduction Interview with Michael Fay
Vignesh Naidu (VN): How important is ASEAN to Australia? Michael Fay (MF): Australia is geographically bound to ASEAN. We’re going nowhere. We can’t sail off…
Reflections on 40 Years of Doing Business in ASEAN
During my years spent in Indonesia and then Singapore in the 70’s and 80’s, I acted for many large Australian companies investing in the individual…
Admitting Humanity’s Exploitative Ties with Nature: Penang’s Pursuit of Sustainable Development
Globalisation’s Historical ConsequenceThe atypical ambition to make human development sustainable would not have come about in our time, if not for the pervasive sense we…
Accelerating Education for Sustainability: Sunway University, Together with Others
Had universities incorporated sustainability in their education of business managers, scientists, technologists, engineers, marketeers, communicators, social scientists, government administrators and politicians in the last 100…
University Impact Rankings by SDG: Sustainable Cities and Communities
The recent plague of bushfires that has swept across the Australian continent have drawn fresh scrutiny on global efforts to address climate change. New technologies…
Strengthening Quality Assurance and Developing Global Standards in English Language Teaching Centres: Management in ASEAN and Australia
Quality Assurance in English Language Teaching Centres Quality assurance denotes the adoption of management and professional practices that inspire confidence that requirements of the highest…
Alumni Engagement in ASEAN: Where Are We Today, and Where Do We Need to Go?
IntroductionIn 2020, sustainable alumni engagement across ASEAN requires investments unique to each country and to ASEAN-Australian partnerships. There are a number of challenges in…