Hanoi (VNA) – Education experts from Australiashared their country’s experience in running universities to meet the criteriaof world university ranking systems at a workshop in Hanoi on October 26.

Tran Cong Phong, Director of the VietnamInstitute of Educational Sciences, said tertiary education in Vietnam hasdeveloped strongly, contributing to manpower training in recent years. 

University ranking and governance have become atop concern of the local tertiary education sector. Many schools have actively self-assessedand engaged in quality certification on regional and global levels, he noted. 

Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Crag Chitticksaid his country has 41 universities and 130 higher education establishments,seven of which are among the world’s best 100 universities while most of theothers are in the top 500, according to some lists.

He attributed Australian universities’ successto cooperation and competition, elaborating that they grant scholarships totalented students and sponsor studies to promote their image and build theirbrand. Meanwhile, competition fuels their efforts to reach higher positions inglobal rankings.

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Joanna Wood, Education Counsellor of theAustralian Embassy, said her country’s tertiary education sector is assessed asone of the best in the world thanks to graduates’ performance. The rate ofgraduates finding full-time jobs within four months after graduation rose from70 percent in 2013 to 88 percent in 2016. About 37.1 percent of Australianpeople aged 25-34 have a bachelors degree or above.

She added the success of Australia’s tertiaryeducation sector is based on quality proven by global standards.

Sharing the country’s experience in organisingand managing universities, John Molony, Executive Director of DeakinInternational at Deakin University, there no Vietnamese universities were listedin global rankings like the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), QSand Times Higher Education (THE). Only some of them are named in the QS rankingsfor Asia.

To enter global rankings, Vietnamese schoolsshould pay more attention to the reputation of their specialised staff, thereputation of recruiters of their graduates, the rate of students per faculty,the citation index of each faculty, faculties’ internationalisation, and therate of foreign students. They should ensure recognition of the universitiesamong domestic and international specialists while improving their researchcapacity and the quality of scientific articles and reports, Molony added.-VNA