Improving Higher Education Quality Program in Vietnam
The United States Agency for International Development, otherwise known as USAID, is a US federal government agency thats fundamentally accountable for administering civilian foreign aid to several countries around the globe.
The grants and programs of the USAID are all tailored to aid in the accomplishment of its general agency mission which is to extend a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or battling to live in a free and democratic country.
In line with this mission, the United States Agency for International Development Headquarters in Bangkok has recently established the Improving Higher Education Quality Program in Vietnam.
The program intends to fortify the human and institutional capacity of local Vietnamese higher education institutions, in an effort to create and administer quality education programs, training, and various research programs that support important economic expansion.
USAID has explained this programme resulted from the movement of Vietnam, turning into a middle-income country standing, instead of originally being a low-income country. Due to this speedily changing industrial landscape, the education system of the country is suffering from incredible pressure.
The Improving Higher Education Quality Program attempts to remedy that concern, by way of constituting programs and activities that can potentially leave behind academic legacies which are highly capable of providing effective human capital development.
Among all of the areas of concern are the educations system`s institutional differentiation and autonomy, training, pay, and promotion of professors, reconstruction of instructional strategies, development of 21st century education managers and leaders, and eventually, the development and usage of relevant curriculum.
In its Higher Education Reform Agenda (HERA), the Vietnamese government has said that the education system will be critically improved through improving the standard of teaching and research, extending the autonomy of higher education institutions specifically in academic and administrative matters, with an end goal of improving responsiveness to the requirements of beneficiaries; and finally, increasing private sector investments.
The recipients of the grant award will be tasked to develop programs and initiatives that will address these concerns, and as a result, the USAID Headquarters in Bangkok is ready to administer a funding amount of $2,500,000 to help this initiative.
USAID has stipulated that the organizations and institutions who will be eligible to submit an application under this program are the following:
a) US or non-US non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
b) Non-profit or for-profit setups
c) Academic institutions
d) Private sector entities.