In various rankings of national higher education systems, Vietnam has not yet appeared, although countries in the region such as Thailand and Malaysia have already made it into the top 50. However, with the entry of 2 national universities into the top 1,000, it can be said that the Vietnamese university system belongs to the group of 80 out of 196 countries in the world. This information was provided by the research group of Professor Nguyen Huu Duc, Vice President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, at a seminar on “standardization and international integration” organized by the National Assembly Committee for...

Over the past three decades, the increasing demand for accountability and training effectiveness in higher education globally has led to the widespread adoption of quality accreditation as a key tool in both developed and developing educational systems. A Worldwide Movement Accreditation is described as “the process by which a (non-) governmental or private body evaluates the quality of a higher education institution as a whole or of a specific educational programme in order to formally recognize it as having met certain pre-determined minimal criteria or standards” (Vlăsceanu, Grunberg et al. 2007, pp. 25). First emerging in the United States at...