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Title

The value of a 'core' business: a case study of the involvement of an Australian university in Vietnam: 1993-1998

Author(s)

Pidgeon, John F.;  Di Virgilio, Patricia

Abstract

This article describes how two dovetailing processes led Swinburne University of Technology of Melbourne, Australia, to the setting up of business studies programmes in Vietnam. One of the processes was the increasingly felt need in Australia to make higher education more cost efficient that stimulated the identification and the exploitation of non-governmental sources of funding. The other one was the decision, taken in 1986 by the Vietnamese government, to move progressively to a market based economy. Thus the Vietnamese government created a demand for increasing numbers of professional workers schooled in Western concepts of business management, accounting, administration, etc. The Swinburne University of Technology responded to this demand in a number of creative ways by setting up collaborative course programmes in some of the major cities of Vietnam.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Higher Education in Europe, Vol. 24, no. 2 (1999), pp. 239-250

Publication year

1999

FOR Code(s)

1301 Education Systems

Keyword(s)

Business administration education;  Economic development;  Education;  Educational demand;  Educational finance;  Free enterprise system;  Higher education;  Offshore education;  Vietnam

Publisher

Routledge

ISSN

0379-7724

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0379772990240211

Copyright

Copyright © 1999 UNESCO.

Peer reviewed