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Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ((EDAP,volume 50))

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The chapter discusses the context of higher education reforms in Vietnam. It sets the scene by exploring the global forces that have shaped and reshaped the landscape of Vietnamese higher education. It then examines how the local demands have affected the higher education sector and concludes with an outline of the book structure.

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    Championed as the “21st Century Agreement”, the TPP involves 12 countries including the USA and Japan. The TPP block produces 40% of the global trade within this trade agreement. Vietnam successfully signed the TPP agreement on 8 October 2015. Together with other three Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (Hunter Marson, The Diplomat, 25 July 2015), Vietnam is believed to benefit the most from TPP in the fields of garment and textiles (Retrieved from http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/what-the-trans-pacific-partnership-means-for-southeast-asia/)

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Nguyen, N.T., Tran, L.T. (2019). Impacts of Global Forces and Local Demands on Vietnamese Higher Education. In: Nguyen, N.T., Tran, L.T. (eds) Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 50. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8918-4_1

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