Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam

Chapter 1 Introduction and Foregrounding the Work: ‘New’ Players, ‘New’ Discourses, ‘New’ Practices, and “New Flavours”

Chapter 2 A Review of the Reform Agenda for Higher Education in Vietnam

Chapter 3 ‘Standing Between the Flows’: Interactions Among Neoliberalism, Socialism and Confucianism in Vietnamese Higher Education

Chapter 4 A Review of University Research Development in Vietnam from 1986 to 2019

Chapter 5 What Impacts Academics’ Performance from the Learning Organisation Perspective? A Comparative Study

Chapter 6 Commentary: Modernity and Reflexivity in Vietnamese Higher Education—Situating the Role of the Ideological, Capacity Building, Learning Organisation, and Policy Reform

Chapter 7 Critiquing the Promotion of American Biased “Liberal Arts Education” in Post- “Đổi Mới” Vietnam

Chapter 8 Fighting the Stigma of “Second-Tier” Status: The Emergence of “Semi-Elite” Private Higher Education in Vietnam

Chapter 9 The Emergence of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Private Higher Education Sector in Vietnam

Chapter 10 Vietnam’s Community College: The Question of Higher Education Decentralisation in Contemporary Vietnam

Chapter 11 The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of Academic Freedom in Vietnamese Universities

Chapter 12 Impact of the New Southbound Policies in International Students on Taiwan: An Exploratory Study from Vietnamese Oversea Students

Chapter 13 Commentary: What Lies Ahead? Considering the Future of a “New” Vietnamese Higher Education

Chapter 14 English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Vietnamese Universities: Policies of Encouragement and Pedagogies of Assumption

Chapter 15 Training English-Medium Teachers: Theoretical and Implementational Issues

Chapter 16 Assessment Practices in Local and International EMI Programmes: Perspectives of Vietnamese Students

Chapter 17 Commentary: Who Is EMI for? From Vietnam, Thinking About a Clash of Realities Behind the Policy, Practice, and Pedagogy in Japan

Chapter 18 ‘Expectations vs. Practicalities’: Key Issues of EMI Policy and Pedagogical Implementation in Higher Education in Vietnam, with Reference from Brunei Darussalam

Chapter 19 Commentary: Postcards from Vietnam—Lessons for New Players in Higher Education

Chapter 20 Engaging (with) New Insights: Where to Start to Move Scholarship and the Current Debate Forward

Chapter 21 Afterword: Challenges Facing Vietnamese Higher Education