In the June 2023 issue of the Vietnamese Journal of Education two articles have been published on research about Quality in Higher Education that I’ve conducted the last few months. The first is about quality culture, especially in complex environments like Vietnam and the second about the fitness of international research for use in the Vietnamese context.
Quality management is my first passion. I worked on improvement of organisations and people within in education and healthcare my whole working life and still.
In 2004 I was asked to support a Vietnamese team of teachers in higher education on their quality journey. The years thereafter I visited the country more than ten times. I fell in love with the country and the Vietnamese people and developed my second passion: working on quality in an international context. Since then I try to keep up with the developments in Vietnam and in Vietnamese Higher Education in particular. The highly valued researcher Cuong Huu Nguyen from Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, supports me greatly in that attempt. He co-authored the second article.
In doing so, I hope to keep contributing to continuous improvement in higher education and healthcare, especially in Vietnam.