ABSTRACT
Vietnamese universities are notorious for using traditional teaching and learning methods in which teachers lecture and students take notes. This affects the quality of students’ learning experience and results in graduates who possess great knowledge but lack the necessary skills for work. Therefore, one of the foci of the HERA is to enhance the use of student-centred pedagogical practices in delivering university courses, as is done in the West. In this chapter, the authors will report the results of a quantitative study of how student-centred teaching has been implemented in Vietnamese higher education institutions. Using 831 responses of students from 39 institutions to an online survey, the authors found that in students’ experience, student-centred teaching has generally been practiced effectively. However, it seemed that implementation at the institutional level should be enhanced to create a favourable environment for implementation at the classroom level. The chapter provides some recommendations to achieve this and discusses the findings with reference to the socio-cultural aspects embedded in the higher education system.
