Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga speaks at the workshop. (Photo: kinhtedothi.vn)Da Nang (VNA)– The 5th National Workshop on the Impact of Qualifications Frameworks andRegional Quality Assurance Standards on Vietnam’s Higher Education opened in centralDang Nang city on May 30.
The three-day workshopwas co-held by the Ministry of Education and Training and the European Union(EU) Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (SHARE) with DeputyMinister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga and specialists from EU and ASEANnations in attendance.
The three-day event,divided into four working sessions, will discuss the current state of the ASEANQualification Reference Frameworks (AQRF) and evaluate their impacts onVietnam’s higher education.
Participants to theevent shared views on how to improve compatibility of social needs andstudents’ ability to find a job through applying learning outcome standards andquality assurance. They also attend training courses to examine, assess anddevelop programmes based on outcome standards.
Speaking at theworkshop, Deputy Minister Ga said the eight-level qualifications frameworkscomprise five levels for vocational training and other three for highereducation.
The frameworks haveprofound impacts on stakeholders, from policymakers, employers, to educationalinstitutes and students, and allow fundamental changes in quality of highereducation in the context of deep global integration and increasing demand forhigh-quality human resources, Ga noted.
In addition to theimplementation of the qualifications frameworks, Vietnam will continue toassure education quality standards with approach to international and regionalstandards and this will be an essential part of the country’s comprehensiveeducation reforms, he emphasised.
He also spoke highlyof SHARE’s support to higher education in ASEAN, including Vietnam. Theprogramme has created a bridge for educational cooperation between countries inthe region, particularly in education quality assurance.-VNA
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