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The Road to Privatisation

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Behind the privatisation question is the issue of whether we can consider universities as enterprises and what the balance is between ‘public good’ and ‘private interest’, or between the ‘social benefit’ and the ‘individual benefit’ of higher education.

Collegiality in the Academic Environment

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Collegiality is a vital concept in academic culture in Western universities, but it has not been examined sufficiently in Vietnam. On the pathway of Vietnamese universities to achieving international norms, important roles are played not only by academic standards, but also by the relationships between colleagues in university governance and …

The American Credit System’s Pedagogical Objectives: Implications for Vietnam’s Higher Education Reform.

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The true secret of the American system of higher education is its level of decentralization. Within this decentralized system the credit hour is an administrative mechanism for coordinating an individual university’s pedagogical vision. Generally, these pedagogical visions are the product of intellectual debates at the university level about the ideal …
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