From Institutional Autonomy to Accountability for Higher Educational Leadership in Vietnam

Abstract

Institutional autonomy plays a significant role in attempts to define international standards of university governance. Institutional accountability is enforced and can have important implications for institutional autonomy. Leaders of higher education institutions in Vietnam do not at present have much institutional autonomy and accountability within their governance. This study aims to investigate the impacts of the governance forms in Vietnamese higher education institutions from the perception of the nation and discusses the central importance of institutional autonomy and accountability for leadership in higher education. Standards for the governance of institutional autonomy and accountability in Vietnamese universities are advanced. This study was used as evidence from Hanoi University of Science and Technology for applications of institutional autonomy and accountability.

Keywords: institutional autonomy, institutional accountability, leadership, Vietnamese higher education.