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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