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A review of the reform agenda for higher education in Vietnam
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A review of the reform agenda for higher education in Vietnam

Martin Hayden and Le-Nguyen Duc Chinh
Higher education in market-oriented socialist Vietnam : new players, discourses, and practices, pp.21-39
International and Development Education, Springer International Publishing
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46912-2_2
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Educational Policy and Politics Education International and Comparative Education Higher Education Education and Training Systems Policies and Development
This chapter reviews Vietnam’s progress in implementing Resolution 14/2005/NQ-CP, dated November 2, 2005, entitled ‘A Resolution on the Fundamental and Comprehensive Reform of Higher Education in Vietnam 2006–2020’. Resolution 14 proposed a wide-ranging reform agenda intended to create a higher education sector that by 2020 would be ‘advanced by international standards, highly competitive, and appropriate to the socialist-oriented market mechanism’. Significant progress is evident since 2005 in improving the sector’s quality and effectiveness, but the sector cannot yet claim to be either ‘advanced by international standards’ or ‘highly competitive’. In general, the pace of the reform process has been slow and sporadic, principally because of the sector’s need to rely upon leadership from a slow-moving State bureaucracy. There is also a need for better sector-wide coordination, for more global integration, and for public universities to be given appropriate forms of institutional autonomy.

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