Globalization and the governance of education in Viet Nam

London, Jonathan D.

doi:10.1080/02188791.2010.520202

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“…For Singapore and Malaysia, the development of transnational programmes and branch campuses acted as a form of import substitution, and has subsequently led to the development of successful export‐oriented private education sectors. In HCMC, by contrast, as London () observes, the state has retained close control over all educational institutions, and is determined to avoid the inequalities in access that private education markets can foster.…”

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“…While the primary focus of this paper is quantitative, we also discuss the ways in which global education poses challenges for state agencies, who seek on the one hand to promote economic development by selectively importing knowledge and skills but are simultaneously determined to maintain tight control over the educational system as a whole and are wary of exacerbating inequalities in access and outcomes (London, ). Cross‐border higher education, we argue, poses particular challenges for Communist political authorities as they strive to manage and direct a capitalist economy.…”

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Assessing participation in cross‐border higher education in cities: Foreign education provision in Ho Chi Minh City

Ziguras

Pham

2014

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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One of the limitations of research on global educational mobility has been the primary classification of key participants – students and educational institutions – in national terms. This paper tests the challenges involved in such methodological nationalism by examining the provision of cross‐border education in one city. As Vietnam's commercial centre, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has experienced rapid transformation over the past two decades as the country has moved steadily from a state‐directed to a more market‐driven and globally integrated economy. Since the late 1990s there has been a parallel growth in cross‐border higher education in HCMC, through the outbound mobility of students and the provision of foreign programmes by international partnerships and branch campuses. Drawing on available data supplemented with insights gleaned from interviews and existing literature, this paper develops a methodology for identifying and quantifying the key features of each form of domestic, overseas and transnational provision. We estimate that around 6% of HCMC's tertiary students are studying overseas and between 2% and 3% in foreign programmes delivered in the city. The rates of enrolment in overseas and transnational programmes by students in HCMC are thus far higher than for Vietnam as a whole, but still considerably lower than in those well‐established cross‐border education hubs, Hong Kong and Singapore. We argue that concerns about the growth of private education and inequalities in access may continue to limit the growth of transnational provision in HCMC.

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Assessing participation in cross‐border higher education in cities: Foreign education provision in Ho Chi Minh City

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Pham

2014

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“…The individuals that entered the public education system in 1990 (who were born in 1983) must have had a political socialization experience very different from that of their slightly older cohorts. They were imbued with pragmatist pursuit of individual excellence geared toward the world market and regular exposure to the Western culture, which had been unimaginable in the pre-Doi Moi, Two World Theory era (London, 2010; Vu 2010; Thanh, 2011). On the contrary, the control group, the birth cohort that immediately precedes the treated group, experienced Soviet-themed socialization in their early childhood 3 .…”

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Doi Moi and Vietnamese threat perception of Chinese economic growth

Son

2020

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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A growing body of literature has recently emerged establishing that political socialization influences foreign policy preferences of the public. But the empirical domain of this literature has been confined largely to American foreign policy and whether and how this empirical regularity holds in a non-democratic, non-western setting is unknown. Filling this lacuna, this research note studies the Vietnamese public attitudes toward Chinese economic expansion. I argue that Vietnamese citizens who grew up amid Doi Moi (renovation) had a political socialization experience very different from that of the birth cohorts who immediately preceded them. I demonstrate that the traditional ‘socialist brotherhood’ rhetoric that used to moderate otherwise hostile public opinions about China became insignificant through the course of the reform. This abrupt change led to markedly divergent views between the pre- and post-Doi Moi birth groups on China. Using the data from the latest Pew Global Attitude Survey, I demonstrate that Doi Moi increased the Vietnamese public's negative perception of Chinese economic expansion.

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“…Subsidies on education were gradually removed. The government and the community together shared fees to access educational services and thus develop the national education system in a market orientation (Pham, 2011;London, 2010). Currently, Viet Nam had a total of 442 TEIs in 2016, of which 90 were private including 60 private universities and 30 private colleges.…”

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Technical Efficiency Heterogeneity of Tertiary Institutions in Viet Nam: A Metafrontier Directional Technology Approach

Villano

Tran

2019

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The higher education system of Viet Nam has been undergoing reform process with the aim of seeking a position in the world’s education market. However, recent changes in the system have made the operational efficiency of the system less stable, thus making it more challenging to improve the country’s universities world rankings. In this paper, we investigate the performance of tertiary education institutions in Viet Nam and evaluate the efficiency gap between colleges and universities. Using the metafrontier directional technology approach, we estimate both the group frontier and metafrontier efficiencies for 112 universities and 141 colleges using data for 2011–2013 and compute their differences imposed by the technology associated with different levels of ownership and locations. The findings showed that the performance of universities were better than that of colleges, at 0.837 0.774, respectively. However, under an unrestricted metafrontier framework, the metatechnology ratios suggest that universities and colleges were operated comparatively well by potentially increasing their performance by 7.8 and 5.0 per cent, respectively. Both urban universities and colleges are found to be more efficient than their rural counterparts, but the effects of ownerships showed mixed results on the performance of universities and colleges. Our results highlight the need for appropriate policies and enabling environment that will enhance the performance of each institution. It is imperative to re-evaluate the specific role and individual contributions of colleges and universities in the national education system and assist rural universities and colleges to explore their full potential to enhance their performance.

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Globalization and the governance of education in Viet Nam

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Assessing participation in cross‐border higher education in cities: Foreign education provision in Ho Chi Minh City

Assessing participation in cross‐border higher education in cities: Foreign education provision in Ho Chi Minh City

Doi Moi and Vietnamese threat perception of Chinese economic growth

Technical Efficiency Heterogeneity of Tertiary Institutions in Viet Nam: A Metafrontier Directional Technology Approach

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