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Drivers of Vietnamese Higher Education Quality Assurance

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This book chapter reviewed the three drivers of quality management (the massification, global cooperation, and internal and regional cooperation) in Vietnam higher education; the two major achievements in accreditation include a fully developed infrastructure to conduct accreditation nationwide and the use of Plan-Do-Check-Act model to improve the student learning. Researcher suggested some opportunities include building a culture of assessment, considering quality as transformation, clarifying the independence of center for educational accreditation, and conducting longitude and empirical study about accreditation processes across institutions to improve Vietnam higher education accreditation.

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This paper acknowledges the assistance of Dr. Do Minh Hoang for the abstract and Dr. Oliver for the review.

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  1. College of Foreign Languages, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam

    Nhung Tuyet Thi Pham

  2. University of Education, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Thanh Quy Nguyen & Cuong Huu Nguyen

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Pham, N.T.T., Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, C.H. (2019). Drivers of Vietnamese Higher Education Quality Assurance. In: Nguyen, C., Shah, M. (eds) Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26859-6_6

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