Is the exchange of lecturers one of the forms of international cooperation of higher education institutions in Vietnam?

Is the exchange of lecturers one of the forms of international cooperation of higher education institutions in Vietnam?

Under Article 44 of the Higher Education Law 2012, the regulations are as follows:

The forms of international cooperation of higher education institutions

1. Associate training.

2. Establishing representative offices of foreign higher education institutions in Vietnam.

3. Cooperating in scientific research and technology transfers, organizing science conventions and seminars.

4. Counseling, sponsoring, investing in the development of facilities and equipment.

5. Training, exchanging lecturers, researchers, management staff and students.

6. Connecting libraries, exchanging information serving the training, science and technology activities; providing training programs; exchanging the documents and results of training, science and technology activities.

7. Participating in regional and international science, education organizations and professional associations.

8. Establishing representative offices of Vietnamese higher education institutions in other countries.

9. Other forms of cooperation as prescribed by law provisions.

Thus, according to the above regulations, the exchange of lecturers is one of the forms of international cooperation of higher education institutions in Vietnam.

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What is the purpose of international cooperation of higher education institutions in Vietnam?

Under Article 43 of the Higher Education Law 2012, the purposes of international cooperation of higher education institutions in Vietnam are as follows:

- Improving the higher education quality towards modernization, approaching the develop higher education in the region and in the world.

- Facilitating the sustainable development of higher education institutions, training skilled and qualified workforce serving the country’s industrialization and modernization.

What is the maximum duration for which higher education institutions in Vietnam offer a joint training program without satisfying all conditions?

Under Article 45 of the Higher Education Law 2012 amended by Clause 25 Article 1 of the Law on Amendment to Law on Higher Education 2014:

International cooperation in education

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5. A higher education institution that satisfies all of the conditions specified this Article and Clause 2 Article 32 of this Law is entitled to participate in cooperation in provision of undergraduate training; when the undergraduate program of such an institution passes the quality assessment, it may participate in cooperation in provision of master’s training; when the undergraduate program and master’s program of such an institution passes the quality assessment, it may participate in cooperation in provision of doctoral training.

6. In case a joint training program that is suspended from enrolment or terminated as prescribed in Clause 3 of this Article, the higher education institution shall protect legal interests of its lecturers, employers and students; refund tuition fees to students; pay salaries and other benefits to the lecturers and other employees under employment contracts or the collective bargaining agreement; pay tax debts and other debts (if any).

7. A higher education institution shall publish on its website and mass media information about its joint training programs, legality of the foreign degrees in the issuing country and in Vietnam; assist students in recognition of degrees; carry out assessment of the joint training programs offered n Vietnam after the student graduate and periodically.

8. A higher education institution that offers a joint training program without satisfying all conditions or ensure training quality as specified in the cooperation scheme shall be suspended from international cooperation in education for 5 years from the day on which a conclusion is issued by a competent authority.

A higher education institution that offers a joint training program without satisfying all conditions or ensure training quality as specified in the cooperation scheme shall be suspended from international cooperation in education for 5 years from the day on which a conclusion is issued by a competent authority.

Therefore, higher education institutions in Vietnam may offer a joint training program without satisfying all conditions for no more than 05 years.