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UK Vietnam Higher Education Partnership dissemination webinar series – sustaining partnership for future

The British Council in Vietnam since 2018 has been working closely with Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) Vietnam to initiate UK Vietnam Higher Education Partnership (UK-VN HEP) which facilitate higher education partnership (HEP) projects to work on shared objectives in internationalising HE. The UK-VN HEP 2018-2020 was successful in supporting 12 partnerships between 17 UK higher education institutions (HEIs), 40 Vietnamese HEIs from the two countries. Many good case studies and practices developed as results of the partnerships. Best practices are always worth sharing, the British Council therefore host series of webinars to facilitate dissemination and debate about the relevance in adapting in post-COV context.

The webinar series will aim to:

  • encourage continuous strategic engagement and collaboration between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK and Vietnam during and post Covid-19 
  • act a catalyst for innovation in international education, driving development in UK Vietnam Higher Education partnership

Webinar #2: Contextualise UK internal quality assurance tools and discuss wider quality issues in TNE digital delivery

Time: 09.30–10.30 (UK time), Friday 24 July 2020

Location: online in Microsoft Teams

Objectives

  • To share tools and framework that promotes effective student engagement and discuss adaptation in Vietnam HE context
  • To debate on wider quality related issues in the context of digital delivery expansion (TNE focus)

Agenda (Click on session titles to view presentations)

Timing  Activity
15.30 Welcome and introduction
  • Hoang Van Anh, Director, Education and Society, British Council
15.35 Cardiff Metropolitan University (CardiffMet) and National Economics University (NEU) share narrative guideline to enhance learning and teaching through greater engagement with students – QA tool developed as part of the partnership between CardiffMet and NEU
  • Dr Nicola Bolton, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Met University, United Kingdom
  • Elizabeth Britton, Team Manager, Quality Assessment, Quality Enhancement Directorate, Cardiff Met University, United Kingdom
  • Dr Dam Son Toai, Head of Educational Testing and Quality Assurance Department, National Economics University, Vietnam
15.45 Q &A
15.55 Innovative models of Transnational Education (TNE) in future - quality enhancement and capacity development for future changes
  • Dr Fabrizio Trifiro, Head of Quality Benchmark Services, UK NARIC, The National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom
16.00 Panel discussion TNE partnership and digital delivery as future trend Discuss quality assurance related issues and challenges in context of online/blended teaching and learning in TNE:
  • Student centered learning and engagement
  • pedagogy and course design
  • assessment and academic integrity
  • work integrated learning and experiment/clinical experience
  • comparability of quality assurance frameworks for TNE of different countries
  • recognition of online qualifications
Panelists
  • Dr Nguyen Quoc Chinh, Director, Centre for Education Testing and Quality Assessment, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
  • Dr Dam Son Toai, Head of Educational Testing and Quality Assurance Department, National Economics University, Vietnam
  • Dr Nicola Bolton, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Met University, United Kingdom
  • Elizabeth Britton, Team Manager, Quality Assessment, Quality Enhancement Directorate, Cardiff Met University, United Kingdom
  • Dr Fabrizio Trifiro, Head of Quality Benchmark Services, UKNARIC, United Kingdom
  • Dr Susan Matthews, Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
16.30 Closing