Reforming Higher Education in Vietnam Challenges and Priorities

Here is a comprehensive and scholarly review of various dimensions of the higher education system in Vietnam. The book comes at a crucial time for this South East Asian country’s learning institutions. Vietnam is a dynamic regional player and, like its ne

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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 29 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada

SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes.It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.

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Reforming Higher Education in Vietnam Challenges and Priorities Edited by Grant Harman University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia Martin Hayden Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia Pham Thanh Nghi Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi,Vietnam

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Editors Prof. Grant Harman University of New England Ctr. Higher Education Management & Policy Armidale NSW 2351 Australia [email protected]

Martin Hayden Southern Cross University School of Education Lismore NSW 2480 Australia [email protected]

Pham Thanh Nghi Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Human Studies 9 Kim Ma Street Ba Dinh District Hanoi Vietnam [email protected]

ISBN 978-90-481-3693-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3694-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3694-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941697 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

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1 Higher Education in Vietnam: Reform, Challenges and Priorities . Grant Harman, Martin Hayden, and Pham Thanh