Announcements

• The 2006 SEAAIR Conference on the resort island of Langkawi, Malaysia went well by all accounts. The Conference committee received many congratulatory wishes and emails from participants. The Conference was co-hosted by Open University Malaysia and had three Keynote speeches. The first from Prof Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin, the Deputy Director General, Private Higher Education Institutions Management Sector, Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, the second from Prof Datuk Dr Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Sains Malaysia and the third from Dr Primrose Kurasha, the Vice-Chancellor of Zimbabwe Open University. Nearly 90 papers were presented by authors from 13 different countries and more than 120 participated in the conference. The tour on the second half of the second day of the conference was also popular with participants and it included a Malay cultural presentation on the history of the famous Mahsuri that is synonymous with the island of Langkawi.
• The next SEAAIR Conference will be held on the 5th to the 7th of September 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. It will be hosted by the leading Thailand’s English-language Assumption University. The Theme of the conference is: Self Sufficient and Sustainable Higher Education – an Agenda. Please see the Conference page on this website for further details
• An award is provided for the Best Paper at every SEAAIR conference. If you present a paper at SEAAIR Conferences, your paper is automatically eligible for consideration. The exceptions are papers authored or co-authored by any member of the SEAAIR Executive Committee.
• SEAAIR also publishes an electronic Journal called JIRSEA. More information on the JIRSEA page on this website. Papers should be sent to Dr Raj Sharma, Hon. Secretary, SEAAIR by email to rsharma@swin.edu.au
• The 2007 SEAAIR Conference will also be the election time for SEAAIR Executive Committee memberships. All positions will be declared vacant at that time except that of the Immediate Past President. The 2006 AGM approved the creation of and the resulting change to the Constitution to effect the new position of Immediate Past President. The purpose of this is to ensure that there is a reasonable level of continuity. Thus if you have the time and could dedicate some of it to the management of SEAAIR, please ensure that you attend the AGM and the conference in 2007 and be willing to be nominated for one of the posts in SEC.