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Chapter 2 Results of Technical Cooperation Project

9) Identify CTU’s  These issues were discussed in several sessions with issues of Activity 3-4 among
challenges/solu- the key members of relevant units of CTU, PMU members and the Project experts
tions of Quality in the first half of 2017 and summarized in a paper which was a basic document
Assurance(QA) for for making plans of short-term training in Japan.
continuous im-  On February 21 , 2020, CTU invited the Asian regional director of QS Intelligence
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provement of edu- Unit to give a lecture titled “Identity, Influence & Impact of Viet Nam Universi-
cation ties on the World’s Stage” to the staff members of relevant units of CTU. The CTU
members renewed their consciousness on CTU’s challenging issues through his
presentation and discussion with him.
(Plan:

Jul. 2016 – Mar. 2017)
10) Sharing Japanese  A seminar of QA was held at CTU by a professor of Chuo University in Japan in
universities’ expe- March 2016.
rience on QA  Two (2) core members of CTU were dispatched to Japan in November 2019 to
fulfill this purpose under the scheme of short-term training. One is a Vice Rector
in charge of quality assurance and the other is the deputy director of the Quality
(Plan: Management Center of CTU.
They visited TUMSAT and Kyushu University for sharing Japanese universities’
from Nov. 2017 to experience including JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Educa-
2020 annually) tion) and exchanging opinions on QA and QM of university education. They also
participated in the international conference of QS-APPLE2019 hosted by Kyushu
University in Fukuoka City. In the conference, they joined panel discussion in the
program “Building a global university brand”. After returning from Japan, they
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invited the Asian regional director of QS Intelligence Unit to CTU on 21 February
2020. (See above [Act.2-9])
[Note] QS-APPLE is one of the several annual conferences organized by
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The formal name is QS Asia-Pacific Professional Lead-
ers in Education. QS is a leading university evaluation institution based in the UK.

b) [Indicators of Output 2] Education implementation system in the three fields is strengthened.

Indicator Achievement
1) Number of  The following three new master’s programs were established in 2017 and opened in Oct.
education 2018.
programs
1) Climate change and sustainable tropical agriculture (CoA)
newly es-
tablished
2) Climate change and integrated management of coastal aquaculture and fisheries (CAF)

3) Climate change and Delta management (CENRes)
*Indicator 2.1 has already been achieved as the above three courses are the initial plan
according to the results of discussion between CTU and JSUC.

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