JAKARTA, 12 April 2017 - A Special Senior Officials Meeting on Education (SOM-ED) focusing on Higher Education in ASEAN was organised on 10 April in Jakarta. Attended by delegations from all ten ASEAN Member States and five related international organisations, the meeting was held in response to an increasing sense of dynamism and growing role of higher education in human resource development and productivity in the region. It was followed by a technical meeting on higher education to thresh...