Benefits

Ratification of the Tokyo Convention is the gateway to joining APNNIC. Ratification demonstrates a country’s commitment to improved mobility of students and academics within the Asia-Pacific region, while also strengthening collaboration and solidarity across the region. To confirm if your country is a Party to the Tokyo Convention and Member of APNNIC, please click here.

Benefits of joining APNNIC include:

 

Individuals

• Benefit from fair and transparent qualification recognition practice
• Improve employment prospects
• For refugees and displaced persons, the Convention requires procedures to assess qualifications and prior learning, subject to the Party’s laws and regulations

 

Higher education institutions

• Increased international outlook by welcoming international students, faculty exchange, and international joint research opportunities
• Heightened and harmonized quality assurance systems with exchange partners
• Boost for internationalization at home and abroad

 

Member States

• Benefit from qualified students and skilled labour force to improve national productivity
• Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 Target 3 (SDG4.3) to promote equal access to affordable tertiary education, including quality assurance, comparability and recognition of tertiary education qualifications, and facilitatation of credit transfers between recognized tertiary education institutions.
• Parties to the Tokyo Convention agreed to recognise the qualifications issued by the other Parties that meet the general access requirements unless a substantial difference can be shown. To learn more, see the NIC in the respective country.

 

Learn more

• Tokyo Convention on recognition
• Global Convention on recognition
• Guidelines on Developing and Strengthening Qualifications Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific: Building a Culture of Shared Responsibility (UNESCO, 2018)
• Developing Holistic Indicators to Promote the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific (UNESCO, 2018)
• Guidelines on Implementing Qualifications Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific at Subject Level: Educational Studies and Cultural Heritage Management (UNESCO, 2020)