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Pham Thi Ngoc Anh A/P Dr Christopher Ziguras

Cross-Border Education for Enhancing University and Enterprise Partnership: Current and Future Challenges for HCMC. Pham Thi Ngoc Anh A/P Dr Christopher Ziguras. Cross-Border Education in Vietnam. Student Mobility

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Pham Thi Ngoc Anh A/P Dr Christopher Ziguras

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  1. Cross-Border Education for Enhancing University and Enterprise Partnership:Current and Future Challenges for HCMC Pham Thi Ngoc Anh A/P Dr Christopher Ziguras

  2. Cross-Border Education in Vietnam Student Mobility • During the Cold War, destinations of students from the North and South diverged markedly, many government funded • Now 90% are privately funded, most self-funded students are from HCMC • 44,038 students abroad for a year or more according to UNESCO • Outbound mobility ratio is 2.5, compared with 9.9 for Singapore and 5.4 for Malaysia • Program and Institutional Mobility • Since 1980s foreign education presence under international education joint programs • In 1990s, education collaboration mainly in postgraduate study for opening economy • In 2000s, collaboration expansion to undergraduate and professional education for global integration

  3. Modes of cross-border education delivery in HCMC

  4. Factors affecting level of transnational provision • English: low levels of English communication proficiency among secondary school leavers • Partnerships: legal restrictions creating impact on potential partners, service scope, and target students (Gov. Decree 06/2000/ND-CP) • Timing: rate of growth now in Vietnam is much more rapid than in established transnational education hubs

  5. International Students in Australian Universities Malaysia Vietnam Data source: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Singapore

  6. Aligning learning with needs of enterprises • Students are trained to be aware of “what is waiting for them in multi-culture working environment” with “professional soft skill development woven into course design” Edexcel: education for employment RMIT University: work-integrated learning AIT: corporate internship • Cross-border education tends to be concentrated in fields of high demand in labour market

  7. Policy factors Where we are now Educational factors Legal framework for cross border delivery Disconnection between corporate demand and education design Shortage of education programs that train students with the qualities valued by employers Restriction on potential partners Not enough lecturers’ exposure to working environment Restriction on scope of services Not enough corporate taking education role Restriction on student recruitment Adapted from “Global Context of Tertiary Eductaion”, Edexcel 2009 Current challenges

  8. Skills Attitudes Knowledge Current challenges Qualities valued by employers, Edexcel 2009

  9. GOVERNMENT CORPORATE INSTITUTION success Adapted from “Models of corporate-based education (Nha, 2009) Future challenge

  10. Conclusions • Beginning of project, based on desk research that needs to be informed by interviews and detailed data collection • Clearly rapid growth in participation in all forms of cross-border higher education in HCMC, alumni from these programs are now working in all sectors of businesses and industry • Cross border education programs proliferate in areas of labour-market demand • Difficult for local enterprises to engage with foreign providers without a commercial presence in HCMC but more opportunities for foreign providers operating in HCMC

  11. Questions & AnswersThank you!

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