The International Affairs Service (IAS) is the high-level technical Secretariat that ably assists the CHED Chairperson in the implementation of education matters involving other countries and international education organizations. This unit shall be responsible for coordinating and harmonizing, on behalf of the Chair and/or the Executive Director, all the international dimensions of CHED work that emanate from the respective mandates of the Commission’s organic units. With three (3) units, the Educational Agreements & International Recognition Unit, Trade in Education Services Unit, and the Protocol Affairs Unit, the IAS has the following general functions :
- Serves as the clearing house for all bilateral and multilateral academic agreements services, exchanges, international recognition of degrees and qualifications and policy coordination on the inflow and outflows of international students and services (transnational education);
- Serves eventually as clearing house of information on education policy, systems, curriculum development, educational governance and education materials as well as information on the comparability of higher education programs, degrees, diplomas in other countries, on the one hand, and as source of similar information on the Philippines (in cooperation with the OPRAK and the OPSD);
- Provides protocol assistance to all officials and staff of the Commission and requesting HEIs;
- Assists concerned organic units of the Commission in the coordination of official development assistance (ODA) from both bilateral and multilateral sources and in all matters of trade of educational services;
Office of the Director
Christine Nabor Ferrer, EdD
Director-In-Charge, Office of the Director IV
IAS Microsite: iEducation Philippines