How We Help
Leadership enhancement is crucial for leaders of higher education institutions and higher education sectors alike. Higher education leaders can benefit from a futuristic mindset as well as strategic, agile, and transformative thinking, especially when facing the increasing uncertainties, complexities, and challenges of the world. Since 2015 and as part of our leadership enhancement initiatives, SEAMEO RIHED has pursued capacity building for universities in the countries of Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. SEAMEO RIHED is now moving towards collective learning and support of leadership and sustainable development in higher education across the 11 SEAMEO Member Countries, in partnership with our stakeholders in higher
education, industries, communities and think tanks, through experience sharing and learning, under a new Programme on Capacity Enhancement for Collective Learning and Continuous Development of Higher Education Institutions in the SEAMEO Region.
Enhacing Capacities for Collective Learning and Continuous Development
Our new Programme on Enhancing Capacities for Collective Learning and Continuous Development of Higher Education Institutions in the SEAMEO Region aims to empower institutional capacities across 4 key components, including futuristic leadership and good governance, future-oriented internationalisation, innovative teaching and learning and sustainable research ecosystems, and will continue engaging universities of the GMS as well as those of Timor-Leste and the region of Southeast Asia to encourage higher education institutions to re-define a new common space in higher education, foster human resources of the future, and serve as an open venue for universities and stakeholders in generating new skills and updated knowledge to tackle global challenges and achieve a sustainable future for the region.
Previous Leadership Programmes
Under the framework of the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) and with the support of the ASEAN Secretariat, SEAMEO RIHED implemented the Support for Capacity Building of the Greater Mekong Subregion University Consortium (GMS-UC) during 2018 and 2019. The project remains one of RIHED’s flagship initiatives to support progress and improve the quality and resilience of GMS universities.
Learn more about the GMS-UC Project
The Support for Capacity Building of the GMS-UC Project Brochure