| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 國際文教與比較教育學系 === 100 === During the last decade, the number of universities in Vietnam increased dramatically that significantly expanded the higher education sector. How to keep and maintain their quality have become the highlights in Vietnamese higher education. In recent years, the government has tried to establish a quality assurance system which includes external quality assurance (EQA) and internal quality assurance (IQA) with a key goal to promote the higher education institutions to certain level.
The major purpose of this study is to explore thequality assurance system in Vietnamese higher educationincluding its development, mechanism, process, effectiveness, problems, and potential solution. Qualitative research method was employed. A case study for IQA was conducted to see how the system worked at practice. The case was a university located in the south of Vietnam and 13 participants was invited - ten lecturers and three administrators. In addition, the documentanalysis was utilized and official documents, books and journals related to quality assurance and accreditation of Vietnamese higher educationwere integrated to support the findings. The results showed that the current system of quality assurance in higher education faces the challenges of deficientdesign of the mechanism, lack of the resources (including both manpower and funding) for QA, and shortage of sufficientinformation system of QA.
For IQA in the case study, the problems come fromself-evaluation activities at both institutional and program levels. The IQA strategies, like student feedback and peer review were inadequate in implementation. Base on the findings, the study provided recommendations to HEIs aboutcompleting the IQA system with improved activities. As for MOET, the suggestions were to establishthe independent agencies and completelegal regulations for quality assurance and accreditation to enhance the quality of higher education in Vietnam.
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