1st Edition

Building Soft Skills for Employability Challenges and Practices in Vietnam

By Tran Le Huu Nghia Copyright 2020
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book is among the first of its kind to comprehensively examine the implementation of soft skills in universities in the developing country, Vietnam. The context is unique as the implementation is taking place within the distinctive socio-economic, cultural and political characteristics of the country, amidst several simultaneously-executed educational reforms. Tran lays down the... Read more

Acknowledgement



List of Tables





1 Introduction



2 The Surge of Developing Soft Skills for Students in Higher Education



3 Soft Skills Implementation in Higher Education: A literature Review



4 The Context of Soft Skills Implementation in Vietnamese Universities



5 Soft Skills Implementation Models in Vietnamese Universities



6 The Influence of Leadership on Soft Skills Implementation



7 Teaching Soft Skills: Teachers’ Beliefs, Behaviours and Influential Factors



8 Assessing Soft Skills in Vietnamese Universities: Practices and Challenges



9 Students’ Internship Experience, Employability Development and Influential Factors



10 Students’ Soft Skills Development via Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities



11 External Stakeholders’ Participation in Developing Soft Skills for Students



12 Students’ Participation and Engagement with Soft skills Development



13 Building Soft Skills for Employability: The Way Ahead





Index

Biography

Tran Le Huu Nghia is currently teaching at Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia). He is also an honorary researcher at Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam). He worked eight years in the Vietnamese higher education sector prior to coming to Australia where he worked as a research fellow for Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology. He completed the Master of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (2007-2009), a program coordinated by three prestigious European universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), Bilbao University (Spain) and Institute of Education (the United Kingdom). Then as an Endeavour Postgraduate Awardee (2012-2016), he completed his Ph.D., with a focus on higher education studies, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has produced several research outputs, including articles in high impact journal such as Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Journal of Education and Work, and International Journal of Education Development. His research interests include teaching and learning for employability, teacher education, international education, and teaching English as a second language.