Critically Discuss A Major Global Issue Facing Your Own...

Critically discuss a major global issue facing your own country (1500 words) Quality of higher education in Vietnam 1. Introduction In the 21st century, education continuous keep the key role in development and consequently, the attention of public to quality of education are risen highly, especially to higher education. Ensuring quality to meet the demands of industries and students themselves is the priority of higher education institution in Vietnam, however, from the perspective of autonomy, this issue is the main constrain for universities to do their target in enhancement education quality. This writing will discuss effects of lacking autonomy that limited higher education quality in 3 aspect, those are curriculum, equipt skills†¦show more content†¦The Ministry control majority aspects of tertiary education, from name of institution, areas of training, curriculum, quality of lecturers, number of enrollment student each year etc. State universities are also under the management of their ‘line ministries’ or local government. The line-ministry often has a strong voice in decision mak ing of universities as it ‘provides funds and management necessary for the existence of these institutions’ (Hayden and Lam 2007, p. 76). In addition, each university has a Committee of Communist Party with the mission to make sure all activities of universities are not against the Communist ideology. With that many layers of control, universities in Vietnam do not have much room for their own voices and decisions. Vietnamese Government also acknowledge that centralization is a factor that unempower university. In the Law of Higher Education is issued in 2013, there are 16 times of â€Å"autonomy† repeatedly on the right of higher institutions, however the power of MOET is continuously ensured by the Law. The Primer Minister will continue deciding or guiding on almost all aspect of higher education. Lack of autonomy seems is the one of main issues to keep quality of higher education under public expectation as well as compare with others countries in ASEAN. 3. Curriculum Stand on curriculum aspect, centralization governance reduces the innovation in developing curriculum in higher education