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VNU Center for Education Accreditation (VNU-CEA)

Address: 6th Floor, HT2 Building, VNU Town in Hoa Lac, Hoa Lac, Ha Noi

Email:ttkdclgd@vnu.edu.vn

Website:cea.vnu.edu.vn/english.html

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/cea.vnu.edu.vn

UNITS

- Administration and Personnel Office

- Division of Education Quality Assessment and Recognition

TRAINING PROGRAM

Accreditators Training Program

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

VNU-CEA is a public service organization with legal identity, responsible for conducting quality accreditation for educational institutions outside VNU, providing consultation on quality accreditation and improvement, and organizing training and professional development in the field of educational quality accreditation.

Since the Minister of Education and Training appointed the Director in December 2013 and granted operational approval in November 2014, VNU-CEA has developed and implemented development strategies and short-term plans annually to fulfill its mission, making significant contributions to the development of the quality assurance system in education and building a culture of quality in higher education institutions and colleges in Vietnam.

VNU-CEA participates in policy consultation proposing guidelines and policies to the MOET on quality assurance and educational quality accreditation. VNU-CEA actively contributes to the development and improvement of the legal framework and professional guidelines for implementing quality assurance and EQA in Vietnam through the Quality Management Department, M0ET.

The consulting activities aimed at improving and enhancing quality, conducted through the evaluation and accreditation of educational institutions and training programs by VNU-CEA, have contributed to the formation and development of a quality culture in universities. Numerous workshops and training sessions to enhance capacity in quality assurance and accreditation are organized free of charge for the community involved in this work.

COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

VNU-CEA has been the official full-member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) since March 2019, an associate member of the ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) since May 2017, and a standing member (representing Vietnam) in the ASEAN Young Quality Assurance Officers Network (AYQON) since 2019. VNU-CEA has actively participated and contributed to the success of the EU-SHARE Project from 2019 to 2022, and led a project funded by INQAAHE to train core lecturers in developing training programs based on output standards in Vietnam and Laos from 2023 to 2024. Within the framework of the EU-SHARE Project, VNU-CEA was the first educational accreditation organization in Vietnam to be evaluated for improvement consultation by international experts according to the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework (AQAF) standards. In addition, in 2024, VNU-CEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japan Association for Accreditation of Higher Education (JUAA) in the field of quality assurance and accreditation.

- In Vietnam, VNU-CEA has cooperation agreements with 03 regional universities, and maintains cooperative relationships with the Department of Training and Education - Ministry of National Defense, the Department of Training - Ministry of Public Security, several provincial Departments of Education and Training, higher education institutions, and pedagogical colleges nationwide. Based on these cooperation agreements, in addition to conducting external assessments and implementing accreditation process, VNU-CEA organizes numerous capacity-building activities for evaluators, accreditors, quality assurance officers, and managers of educational institutions in areas such as quality assurance, EQA, university governance, developing output standards, and designing training programs.

Regarding scientific research and participation in postgraduate teaching: VNU-CEA has led and completed 03 research projects, developed, and successfully transferred a question bank for examinations to assess and select vocational education accreditors, as well as a question bank for training higher education and pedagogical college accreditors. VNU-CEA’s staffs have published 85 scientific articles, including 26 international publications in the WoS/Scopus on governance and management in higher education, have led and contributed to the development of 17 monographs, books, book chapters, and reference in the field of governance and management in education, and successfully supervised 34 master’s and doctoral students.