VIETNAM HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM FOR THE NATIONS DEVELOPMENT

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VIETNAM HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM FOR THE NATIONS
DEVELOPMENT

• Dr. Nguyen Thi Le Huong
• Deputy Director General, Dept. of Higher
  Education
• Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam

Macau SAR, PR China 26th September 2008
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VIET NAM OVERVIEW
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RATE OF GROWTH IN SECTORS

• 1996 -2006, the average rate of growth annually
  in
• Industry construction sector 10.3
• Service sector 7.3
• Agriculture, forest and fishery 3.9
• Industry and service sectors require a large
  amount of skilled workforce and high demand for
  appropriate training

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CHANGES IN EMPLOYED POPULATION BY ECONOMIC
SECTOR
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VN HIGHER EDUCATION 2008

• 369 universities and colleges (64 private,
  account for 17,34)
• 1.6 million students. GER 13
• 188 students /10,000 population
• 56,000 faculties (teaching staff), ratio of
  students to faculty 28
• 5,900 PhD. holders as faculties (lt11 total
  teaching staff)
• 314 full professors 1,845 associate professors
• Few research at universities (3 of universities
  revenues)
• Weak linkage with the industry
• Obsolete equipment for teaching and research,
  outdated curriculum and teaching method
• Low funding ? low spending on teaching and
  research

LOW QUALITY OF GRADUATES (DO NOT MEET THE
INDUSTRYS SKILL REQUIREMENTS )
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GRADUATE SKILLS RESPONSIVENESS
Theoretical Knowledge
Practice Skills
General Skills
Source Labour Market Survey of Ministry of
Labour Invalids and Social Affairs and ADB, 2003
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DISTRIBUTION OF TERTIARY ENROLLMENT BY INCOME
QUINTILE
Source Vietnam Household Living Standards
Survey, 2004
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FUNDING FOR EDUCATION

• State budget for education increased from 4.2 of
  GDP in 2000 to 5.6 in 2006
• Private contribution fluctuated between 1.7
• Total funding from public and private sectors
  increased from 5.8 of GDP in 2000 to 7.5 of
  GDP in 2006, mainly from the increase of public
  budget
• The ratio of private sector expenditure to total
  expenditure on education 25.58 in 2007 and will
  be 28.54 in 2008 as estimate

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THE NEED FOR HUMAN RESOURCE TRAINING

• The labor force demand in general
• not enough skilled or trained workforce for the
  industry
• possibility to import trained workforce to
  Vietnam 49.9 of the labor with college training
  and below, 46.5 for labor with HE
• distribution of foreign labor administrative
  role - 31.8, technical expert - 41.2 and other
  is 27.
• The labor force demand of banking finance
• 2007 account 9.5-9.8GDP, need of labor increase
  383
• 2020 account 18-20GDP, a question for labor
  force?
• The labor force demand of IT (FDI increase
  rapidly. Intel Vietnam, Renesas Company, Fox Con
  Corperation, Compal Company, Samsung, Quang Trung
  Software Park)

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HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM FOR NATIONS DEVELOPMENT

• Higher Education Reform Agenda 2006 2020
• General Objectives By 2020, Vietnam has an
  advanced HE system by international standards
• Specific objectives
• completion of the national network of HEIs
• new curriculums development, quality assurance
  accreditation
• establishment some HEIs meeting international
  standards.
• increasing HE enrollment to 200 students per
  10,000 population by 2010, and 450 by 2020
• at last 40 of instructors with masters degree
  and 25 with doctoral degree by 2010,
• most of instructors with doctoral degree by 2020.
  
• increasing revenue from ST to at least 15 of
  the total HEI revenue by 2010 and 25 by 2020.

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TASKS AND SOLUTIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM

• in structures of degrees and system of
  universities
• in training programs and teaching/learning
  methods
• in lecturing staff and higher education managers
• in research and development
• in financial mechanism of higher education
• in higher education management
• in international integration process of HE

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IMPLEMENTING THE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM AGENDA

• Implementing the advanced programs in selected
  Uni.
• Initiating and promoting the connection between
  training and using labor force
• Reforming the financing mechanism for HE in the
  framework of sharing expenditure among State,
  learners, and communities
• Implementing the training and providing
  administrative and management skills for
  education administrators through courses,
  practical training in VN or abroad
• Implementing projects of profession and
  application with the support of the Dutch
  Governments ODA

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IMPLEMENTING THE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM AGENDA
(CONT.)

• Implementing the project of training 20 thousand
  PhD for HEIs from now to 2020
• Applying the credit system in HE
• The 10-year program for improvement of English
  teaching quality and application in Vietnam
• Establishing two high quality universities,
  helping them become world ranking universities of
  Vietnam
• Forming Center of Workforce Forecasting at
  Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs
• Higher Education Law has been drafted and
  expected to be proposed to the National Assembly
  by end of 2010

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FUTURE PLAN - FIVE DIRECTIONS

• Introduce performance, based system in education
  management
• Improve autonomy, efficiency and accountability
  of HE institutions
• Improve the efficiency of financial management of
  HE
• Further decentralization
• Develop multi-tier higher education system

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