Vietnam to Overhaul Higher Education System
The Vietnamese prime minister announced that Vietnam has endorsed a policy to reform its national higher education system and has implemented “radical changes” that will help the country’s colleges and universities achieve global integration by 2020. In a speech addressed to the Asia Society Texas Centre, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung discussed his goal of improving the higher education system’s “quality, efficiency and skills” to meet the economic and social development needs of Vietnam, where there is currently only one university per 260,000 citizens. He also outlined Vietnam's goal to house one of the world’s top universities and to build more institutions that meet regional and international standards by 2020. Vietnam has recently made great progress in the area of education—the literacy rate for citizens over the age of 15 has risen to 94 percent. However, only six percent of Vietnamese workers are university graduates.
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General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities
Colleges and universities are making tough decisions about budget cuts, hiring freezes, and reduction or elimination of programs.  General education and assessment initiatives, in particular, can be vulnerable to cuts or to inattention as college and university leaders work to preserve enrolments, meet shortfalls, and maintain basic operations.  Yet issues that existed long before the current economic crisis remain—fragmentation and incoherence, a lack of “ownership” of general education among many faculty members, and a desire among students to “get it out of the way.”  What also remains is the need, through general education, to prepare all graduates with essential knowledge and skills, including global knowledge, scientific and quantitative literacy, intercultural skills, and ethical competencies.
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Average Student Age on the Rise
The average student age in the U.S. has been climbing steadily in recent years.  At both Harvard and Notre Dame the average age is now 27.  The University of Phoenix, which offers both online and traditional degree programs, has an average student age of 35-37.  On a larger scale thirty-eight percent of all college students are now 25 or older, according to a recent U.S Census Bureau report. So why has the average age been trending upward?  There are several factors that have contributed to a more mature scholar.
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