Overview
- Sole up-to-date text on recent developments in higher education in Vietnam
- Book presents a fascinating case-study how one Asian country that 20 years ago moved to a market economy is approaching reform of modernisation of its higher education system
- Authors include both western and Vietnam scholars, often writing together
- Authorship includes leading scholars internationally in higher education studies
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 29)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Vietnam is a dynamic member of the community of Southeast Asian nations. Consistent with aspirations across the region, it is seeking to develop its higher education system as rapidly as possible. Vietnam’s approach stands out, however, as being extremely ambitious. Indeed, it may be at risk of attempting to do too much too quickly. By 2020, for example, Vietnam expects its higher education system to be advanced by modern standards and highly competitive in international terms. This vision faces many challenges. The economy, though growing rapidly, remains reliant on the availability of unskilled labour and the exploitation of natural resources, and decision making in many areas of public life continues to be hamstrung by a legacy of over-regulation and centralised control. A large number of goals and objectives have been set for reform of the higher education system by 2020. The success of these reforms will have a major bearing on the future quality of the system.
This sober assessment Vietnam’s global competitiveness forms a backdrop to the subject matter of this book, that is, the state of Vietnam’s higher education system. The book provides a comprehensive and scholarly review of various dimensions of the higher education system in Vietnam, including its recent history, its structure and governance, its teaching and learning culture, its research and research commercialisation environment, its socio-economic impact, its strategic planning processes, its progress with quality accreditation, and its experience of internationalisation and privatisation.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Grant Harman, Martin Hayden and Pham Thanh Nghi’s book, which focuses on HE reform in Vietnam is a welcome contribution in this area, as it introduces and addresses quite details recent reforms in the HES of a developing country in South East Asia. … The book is highly recommended, then, for policy makers, scholars and students of HE who want to benefit from the insights regarding not only Vietnamese HES, but also policies aimed at reforming HESs in developing countries in the globalisation era.” (Thi Tuyet Tran, Higher Education, Vol. 65, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforming Higher Education in Vietnam
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Priorities
Editors: Grant Harman, Martin Hayden, Pham Thanh Nghi
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3694-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3693-3Published: 05 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3162-2Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3694-0Published: 16 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 232
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education