The contribution of imported programs in Vietnamese universities to graduate employability development: A case study

This chapter focuses on a qualitative case study that investigated how the imported Advanced Aquaculture program offered by a Vietnamese university contributed to the development of graduate employability and career advancement prospects as well as identified challenges that these programs are facing. It explores how imported programs at Vietnamese universities contribute to the development of graduate employability. Regardless of the positive contribution of imported programs to graduate employability, they face several problems that threaten their sustainability. Like many of their counterparts worldwide, Vietnamese universities are internationalising their curricula and pedagogical practices, seeing this as a way of increasing the employability of their students. Higher education institutions engage in internationalisation for different reasons, including commercial advantages, knowledge and language acquisition, and curriculum content enhancement. The researchers had good connections within the university and with the school leaders and had witnessed the birth and development of the program.