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An economy in transition: The effect on higher education in Viet Nam

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Original language: English

Jill D. Lammert (United States of America) M.A. in International Education from George Washington University, where she was co-president of the International Education Association and a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars and the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. She participated in the ‘GW Education and Culture in Vietnam’ study tour in August 1998 and presented at the sixth ‘Seminar on the Quality of Education’ in Pinar del Río, Cuba, February 1999. She is currently at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, where she works with education reform projects in Latin America.

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Lammert, J. An economy in transition: The effect on higher education in Viet Nam. Prospects 29, 596–612 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736907

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