ENHANCING ACCREDITATION PRACTICES TO DEVELOP VIETNAM EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Dinh Tuan Dung

National Economics University

June 06, 2012

Ho Chi Minh City

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Flat world: More opportunities and challenges Vietnam is the member of WTO Harder competition quality-based

competition Quality in higher education human

resource quality national status

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The 21st Context(2)

Starting point: “Congress” by Vietnamese Communist Party in 1987◦(i) Curriculum, teaching and learning

methodologies ◦(ii) Teaching faculty ◦(iii) Facilities

Testing reforms by employing followed “3 common policy”

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II. EDUCATION REFORMS SINCE THE 21st

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Major Findings(4)

Quantity

• Increase the No. of Universities and Colleges

• Increase four times in 10 years (1998-2008)

• Currently have more than 400 Universities and Colleges

Về chất lượng: Quality

• Some Universities are highly ranked in the world ( Vietnam National University, Ha Noi – ranked No.743)

• The rest have not meet the needs of social development.

Vietnamese higher education lies in “low level” area.

Developed countries have developed education system.

Accreditation system are availableHaving good accreditation standards:

AACSB, ABET, AUN-QAHighly qualified colleges/universities:

Accreditation process is well applied

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PRACTICES FROM OVER THE WORLD(5)

Assessment Methods: Focus on achievements Don’t have any appropriate standards for

development Lots of reports unclear about causes of

shortcomings, weakness shortcomings repeated.

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ACCREDITATION SITUATION OF VIETNAMESE HIGHER EDUCATION

(6)

Ref: Direction for developments Some institutions cannot identify their mission. Develop as “a tendency”: focusing on “hot” program

without paying attention to their vision, mission … Most of institutions offer economic courses, business

administration, banking, finance, accounting Example: In 2011, there are 248 out of 416

Colleges/Universities has one of four above programs.

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REAL ACCREDITATION SITUATION OF VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY

(6)

Lack of long-term strategy Lack of vision Mismatch of the socioeconomic development

target of local provinces and the nation Relationship between institutions and

businesses. Leading to the decrease in quality, unable to

meet the need of socioeconomic development

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ACCREDITATION SITUATION OF VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY

(6)

Declining competetiveness due to low-quality human resouces.

Leading to the waste in society due to institution closure.

Inclined trust on national education. Recently, MOET has decided to close

some of traning programs, colleges and university.

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Results

There are many causes: investment, weak management, mass development of universities ...

In term of accreditation: Most of universities or training programs are

closed because of not being accredited. Lack of accreditation obviously lead to low

quality

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CAUSES(10)

Public administration:1. Accreditation must be considered as the key

tool to control training quality and clearly define requirements for accreditation in higher education as well as other legal documents. institutionalization accreditation.

2. Making acreditation regulations available to public

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Developmental Pathway(11)

Public administration :3. The establishment of independent arreditation

agencies4. Enhancing and improving quality of

arreditation personnel5. Issuing accreditation criteria for training

programs 6. Establishing Vietnamese Higher Education

Accreditation Association

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State Management Agencies

1.Each institution should actively implement quality control, approach global accreditation standards

2. Need to reform annual assessment crtiteria of actitivies

3. Allocate appropriate funding for accreditation activities

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Institutions

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