This week’s events provided a platform for both sides to discuss key topics in current higher education landscape and meet face-to-face to explore institutional linkages, multi-facet collaborations and commercial partnerships.

Ms Rebecca Ball – Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner, Austrade Vietnam shared: “Vietnam and Australia have built a strong strategic partnership over the past 50 years of diplomatic engagement. Collaboration between Australia and Vietnam in people-to-people links like education is one of the cornerstones of our bilateral relationship and is one of our most enduring areas of engagement. Our strong education ties with Vietnam are demonstrated at both government and institutional levels. It is amazing to see how our education cooperation has evolved over recent decades.”

The education cooperation is growing and diversified, ranging from student mobility with Vietnam being the 5th largest source country of international students in Australia, to education partnerships such as joint programs through transnational education with over 20,000 Vietnamese students pursuing Australian qualifications in Vietnam. There are over 80,000 Vietnamese alumni graduated from Australian education institutions currently working in Vietnam.

Australia – Vietnam Higher Education Partnerships 2023 had participants from seventeen Australian universities and institutions with strong attendance of Vietnamese institutions from many different cities and provinces across Vietnam.

Panel discussions covered key topics of current education market, from the readiness for partnerships to aligning such partnerships to Vietnam’s future jobs and industry demand as well as developing graduate employability through institutional and industry linkages.