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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)

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