#47 New article published in the Vietnam Journal of Education

Vietnam has a special place in my heart since I first visited the country in 2004. It is a country with a rich culture and I met -most of all-  many lovely people.

When I have to explain the difference between (past) planned change and (future) emergent change, I use to show two videos: one of the 2021 military parade in North Korea and one of rush hour in morning Hanoi (my favourite city in the world). It explains so well, how emergence can solve complex problems and uncertainty, where the empirical paradigm cannot.

In my opinion as an humble outsider, the emergent paradigm could also be the next step for this moment for Vietnamese Higher Education, giving way for the autonomy of the Higher Education Institutes (since it focuses on self-organization) and more influence of the academics as well.  It would mean a breakthrough in the way Higher Education is led. “It would be the collective that co-creates new solutions”.  These statements are  published in the March issue of the Vietnam Journal of Education, that recently had its 20th birthday.

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I am proud to announce the publication of this article with the title Capacity Development for Internal and External Auditors in the Complex Adaptive System of Higher Education in Vietnam. It focuses on the Vietnamese accreditation system and concludes that capacity development of reviewers, especially regarding their attitude, can largely influence the effectiveness of an accreditation system, also in Vietnam. Besides, experiences all over the world confirm that internal auditing and training of internal auditors can have an immense effect on the establishment of a quality culture within HEI’s. Especially when the external auditing is expanded with an internal audit equivalent.

The article has been presented earlier at the 1st International Conference on Assessment and Measurement in Education (VietAME), 24th-25th October 2020, Hanoi.

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