In the recent years, the Vietnamese public authorities raised the need to provide information on labour market in combination with the actual human resources produced by the universities, as a priority for the governance of the higher education in Vietnam. In this framework, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam (MOET) has started to consider the tracer study of universities/ and colleges as a core priority for developing the higher education sector in the country. Since 2017 tertiary education institutions are asked to provide MOET with information on the employment condition of their graduates, yet the existent graduates tracking studies suffer inconsistency of contents and scatter methodology. The MOTIVE project, supported and inspired by MOET, aims at ensuring that the Vietnamese HE system address the challenging of reform policy implementation on graduates tracking by monitoring their transition towards the labour market as well as their employment situation, through the set-up of the first National Center for Graduate Tracking in Vietnam. Thanks to the set-up of the Center, the first graduates employment situation survey of the Vietnamese Graduates, developed on a unique methodology and tools, will be run, supported by the network of stakeholders to be set up during the Project. Capacity building activities, namely trainings and workshop addressed to Vietnamese universities staff, on how to manage and exploit graduates data for survey release and on how to support the policy reform of HE system, stays as a pillar of the initiative. The impact envisaged is to modernize the Higher Education sector by promoting an informative based approach to policy reform. The sustainable tools and methodologies develop within the initiative will help to evaluate, monitor and compare the success of higher education graduates, measure the effects of policies and assess the attainment of benchmarks and goals.
To strengthen the competences of the Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions to release graduate surveysTo build up the capacity of the Vietnamese HEIs in exploiting the graduates’ data for the adoption of quality assurance measuresTo increase cooperation between Vietnamese universities and MOET on graduate trackingTo reinforce the connection between partner institutions and society on graduate trackingTo contribute to enhance the cooperation between the EU and Vietnam on graduate tracking
The Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam considers the graduates tracking as a core priority for developing the higher education sector and requires universities to provide information on the employment status of their graduates. Since there was a need to improve the methodology used to collect and analyse the data, the MOTIVE project has been used as an occasion to adapt the EU best practices on this matter to the Vietnamese context, with the advice and support of MOET.
<< Background >> The Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam considers the graduates tracking as a core priority for developing the higher education sector and requires universities to provide information on the employment status of their graduates. Since there was a need to improve the methodology used to collect and analyse the data, the MOTIVE project has been used as an occasion to adapt the EU best practices on this matter to the Vietnamese context, with the advice and support of MOET. << Objectives >> To strengthen the competences of the Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions to release graduate surveysTo build up the capacity of the Vietnamese HEIs in exploiting the graduates’ data for the adoption of quality assurance measuresTo increase cooperation between Vietnamese universities and MOET on graduate trackingTo reinforce the connection between partner institutions and society on graduate trackingTo contribute to enhance the cooperation between the EU and Vietnam on graduate tracking << Implementation >> The release of comparative report on graduates tracking, the set-up of the virtual Center for Graduates Tracking and the stakeholders’ network creation have been achieved through different training sessions and sharing of best practices from EU partners. The workshops and conferences organized on quality of higher education, skills development, graduates employability and labour market analysis have provided innovative models to support the reform process on the matters in the country. << Results >> Release of two pilot surveys on graduates tracking in the nine Higher Education Institutions partners of the project (2020 and 2021 graduates).Release of Graduate Tracking Guidelines.Release of Methodological recommendation paper on graduates tracking.Release of Recommendation paper on University governance and strategic policies.Set up the Higher Education Institutions Center for Graduates Tracking