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Nga Nguyen, Phuong
- Director
- Vietnam National University
- Centre for Education Quality Assurance &
Research
- Development
- Vietnam
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Phuong Nga Nguyen is Associate Professor
of Education and Director of the Centre for Education
Quality Assurance and Research Development at Vietnam
National University Hanoi.
She received her Ph.D. in Education from the University
of Melbourne, Australia in 1998, Post-graduate Diploma
in 1992 from the University of Canberra, Australia
and Bachelor of Education in 1977 from Hanoi University
for Teachers of Foreign Languages.
She is the recipient of the Australian-Vietnamese
government awards 1991-1992, the Australian Agency
for International Development 1994-1997. She was
a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002-03. She has
received numerous research grants, including grants
from Vietnam National University Science Budget,
Ministry of Science and Technology (Vietnam) on
assessments and evaluation of teaching-learning
and training models at higher education. She has
consulted on projects with organizations such
as the World Bank, the Australian Agency for International
Development, the Australian International Volunteers,
the Ministry of Education and Training (Vietnam)
focusing on assessment and evaluation from primary
to higher education, teachers' standards and quality
assurance and accreditation for higher education
Dr. Nguyen is a member of the International Quality
Assurance Agencies for Higher Education, a Chief
Quality Assurance Officer of the ASEAN University
Network, and a member of the Association for Institutional
Research.
Selected Publications
- Nga, N.P. (editor). "Higher Education:
Quality and Evaluation" (2005). Vietnam
National University Hanoi Publisher, Hanoi Vietnam.
- Nga, NP. "Teacher Evaluation and its
Development" in Nga, N.P. edition. Higher
Education: Quality and Evaluation, p.17-47,
2005, Vietnam National University Hanoi Publisher,
Hanoi Vietnam.
- Nga, N.P & Trung B.K. "Student Evaluation
of Teaching Effectiveness" in Nga, N.P.
edition. Higher Education: Quality and Evaluation,
p.120-139, 2005, Vietnam National University
Hanoi Publisher, Hanoi Vietnam.
- Chinh, N.D., Nga, N.P and others "Accreditation
in Higher Education" (2002). Vietnam National
University Hanoi Publisher, Hanoi Vietnam
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| What and How Vietnam Higher Education
Institutions Respond to the Society Increasing Needs
for Further Education and the Development of Globalization
of Higher Education in the 21st Century
With the arrival of the 21st century, mankind
started to picture clearly significant challenges
of the development of knowledge-based economies
and of civil society, and realizes the essential
powerful role of higher education in producing
academic and professional human resources to confront
the challenges. Hence, mass-access to higher education
with diversifying models and recruitment methods
and criteria becomes an issue in the developing
countries where higher education fails to accommodate
the needs of the societies, in which Vietnam is
a case.
Vietnamese applicants to higher education institutions
have to sit for very competitive high stakes entrance
examinations as colleges and universities can
only afford approximately 15.8% of them. The proposed
research is aimed to examine models of higher
education training and/or institutions applied
worldwide that could accommodate the needs of
Vietnam society in mass and equity access to tertiary
education. Specifically the research is aimed
to find out the answers to the following issues:
What models of higher education training and/or
institutions could feasibly accommodate the needs
of Vietnam society in mass and equity access to
tertiary education?
What should be done then to evaluate if the proposed
models ensure high academic training quality?
The objectives are not purely studying current
models of higher education training programs in
the world, but examining the feasibility of adapting
and/or adopting some models to the Vietnamese
contexts, then implementing the most suitable
ones with some modification to the reality in
Vietnam. This research is an extension of what
the researcher together with her team has been
doing currently within a narrow scope.
Further, it is of essentially importance to deeply
study what scholars in the industrialized nations
and in other developing countries are doing to
confront the issue "Elite and Mass-Access
to Higher Education and Equity" in their
national settings with a hope that collaborative
work worldwide would bring about more understanding
of the challenging realities posed by the 21st
century to higher education in diversified settings
and in the global setting as a whole so that ways
to effectively address them in various national
settings and international settings would be identified
globally.
Data will be collected via in-depth interviews
and surveys among educators, students, researchers,
and scholars to explore their opinions on the
current models of training they experienced. Furthermore,
the international exchange visit to USA is a valuable
opportunity for the researcher to meeting with
scholars and administrators at higher education
institutions from public to private, non-profit
institutions, and learning from their institution's
structure, flexible training models and quality
assurance procedures. Thus more information and
experienced would be exchanged and gained to enable
the accomplishment of the proposed objectives
of the research. Furthermore, it is hoped that
collaborative activities with the visited institutions
would also be explored.
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