Collaboration with ASEAN, APEC and Asia-Pacific Countries for Australia's Education and Research Sectors

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Assessment Criterion 1: Australia’s education, training and research sectors will
benefit a lot if Australia decides to collaborate with ASEAN, APEC and Asia-Pacific countries.
Collaborative partnerships with key educational institutions in ASEAN, APEC and Asia-Pacific
countries will enhance the internationalization of Australia’s education, training and research
sectors to a great degree (Bedel, 2015). This would immensely help students like me who
want to pursue a Master of Teaching in Early Childhood as we would get a global
exposure. Internationalization of Australian universities ensures quality assurance,
allowing higher education institutions of different countries to promote mobility and
cooperation for both scholars and students. They will make students confident and
ready to pursue one’s teaching career. It will qualify one to teach in childcare,
preschool and kindergarten settings and to support a child’s transition to school. It
would also help me to develop cross-cultural learning skills on campus. This would
also help develop joint programs in cooperation with research centres and foreign
institutions.
By forming global partnerships and fostering and nurturing relationships with other
institutions of the world, not only universities but students as well would benefit a lot as students
would gain a lot of exposure to different cultures of the world and would become global citizens,
which in turn would help them in their learning process. The number of students applying to
universities abroad is rising by the day and so it is necessary and imperative that universities
adopt a global culture. With the advent of technology and consequently easy modes of
communication and convenient and faster travel, writers and scholars are finding it easier to
collaborate with their foreign counterparts. Scientific papers are thus being co–authored

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internationally (Jennings, 2015). The ability to debate, scrutinize is extremely important to
academic work and international partnerships helps to facilitate this. Thus, collaborations and
partnerships lead to academic progress. Australia would benefit a lot by partnering with these
countries because these countries have a highly advanced education systems with learning
centres of excellence focusing on science, mathematics, technology and engineering among other
fields of knowledge and partnering with these countries and working in collaboration with these
countries would help Australia in the field of research and development (Jennings, 2015).
Assessment Criterion 2: Australia’s National Strategy for International Education
2025 enables Australia’s international sector of education to be more innovative with its focus on
the future, and be globally engaged. It is based on three guiding principles and that is,
strengthening Australia’s education system and their training and research system, building
partnerships between people and governments and institutions at home and abroad and
competing globally by meeting the requisite skills for global education of students. Thus forming
a partnership with ASEAN, APEC and Asia-Pacific countries, is in line with the thought that was
behind establishing Australia’s National Strategy for International Education 2025 (Jennings,
2015). The purpose of National Innovation and Science Agenda was formed to provide all kinds
of support and assist Australian entrepreneurs in taking risks and in pursuing innovative and
creative ideas. It was also created to find solutions to the problems plaguing the world and to
create jobs thereby helping in growth. It was further created to attract as well as develop the best
of minds nationally and internationally for future jobs. Thus, the guiding principle behind
forming the National Innovation and Science Agenda is in sync with the idea that Australia
should form partnerships with ASEAN, APEC and Asia-Pacific countries for economic
development, growth and prosperity (Wohlwend, 2015). Collaborating with ASEAN, APEC and