Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education Global Forces and Local Demands

Nhai Thi Nguyen (PhD) is a Unit Leader for the Educational Studies stream at Monash College, Australia. She has woven her 17 years of research, teaching and industry experiences into the design, development and delivery of Higher Education, Cultural Studies and Teacher Education. She has won a number of awards and fellowships including an Australian Leadership Award, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2016 International Travel Award for Distinguished Service in Educational Reforms in Canada, and the CIES 2018 International Travel Award for Emergent Scholars.

Ly Thi Tran (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She has published extensively in the field of Vietnamese higher education, graduate employability, student mobility and international education and is frequently invited to speak at conferences, symposiums and workshops.  Her books, “Teaching international students in vocational education: New pedagogical approaches” and “International Student Connectedness and Identity: Transnational Perspectives”, won the International Education Association of Australia Excellence Award for Best Practice/Innovation in International Education, and third place in the 2019 Best Book Award category from the Comparative International Education Society Study Abroad & International Students SIG, respectively.