Article,
Private: No longer a dirty word in Vietnamese higher education
Chronicle of Higher Education, (2006)
Abstract
The article focuses on private education in Vietnam. When the postwar baby boom hit in the 1990s, central planners realized that the already-overcrowded public universities could not possibly accommodate all the new students. In 1992, Vietnam warily legalized private higher education. Two years later, Le Cong Co, a former director of a provincial tourism office who had no experience in education, plowed his own money into the project. These days, Duy Tan University, with some 4,500 students, is regarded as a "real school." It has four buildings across the city, and its assets total more than \$10-million, although that is largely because of a recent jump in real-estate prices. It has linked up with India's NIIT Academy to offer internationally recognized certificates in information technology. Co believes private universities in Vietnam could be great one day if allowed to stand on their own. But to do that, they need investment.
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- charter
- colleges
- education
- education,
- higher
- in
- institutions
- private
- privatization
- public
- schools
- technical
- universities
- vietnam
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