Nguyen Tat Thanh University participates in many international education projects funded by the British Council from 2016 to 2024

NTTU – In January, 2021, the Digital Doctorate Training Hub project was accepted by the 2020 UK-China-BRI Education Partnership Initiative fund of the British Council for a grant of 65,000 GBP (co-funding 30,000 GBP from Birmingham City University for the BCU staff cost and overheads) during four years from 2021 to 2024. This grant covers the travel costs among UK, Indonesia, China and Vietnam.

In 2016, Nguyen Tat Thanh University and Birmingham City University had done successfully the project named Improving employability outcomes through student-centred approaches to learning” sponsored by the Higher Education Partnership fund of the British Council Vietnam. Continuing the success of this project, in 2017, the British Council Vietnam approved to fund the extended project with the title “Digitising and re-contextualising successful approaches to student-centred learning for employability in Vietnamese contexts” with the participation of Birmingham City University, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, University of Education Ha Noi and HCMC University of Education.

In August, 2018, the British Council Vietnam decided to fund the project for two more years (2018-2019) with the theme of “Teaching and learning together: re-visioning TNE partnerships as collaborative communities of practice” participated by Birmingham City University, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, University of Education Ha Noi, HCMC University of Education, and PhD students.

In December, 2020, the British Council announced for the 2020 UK-China-BRI Education Partnership Initiative fund. Realizing that this would be a good opportunity for continuing from the success of previous projects, the partners decided to invite Northeast Normal University (China) and Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (Indonesia) to join the project with the extension of researched outcomes.

In January, 2021, the Digital Doctorate Training Hub project (the Digi-Doc) was accepted by the 2020 UK-China-BRI Education Partnership Initiative fund of the British Council for a grant of 65,000 GBP (co-funding 30,000 GBP from Birmingham City University for the BCU staff cost and overheads) during four years from 2021 to 2024. This grant covers the travel costs among UK, Indonesia, China and Vietnam.

The virtual kick-off meeting in April, 2021

There are six universities joining the project, including Birmingham City University, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, University of Education Ha Noi, HCMC University of Education, Northeast Normal University (China) and Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (Indonesia). The Digi-Doc will develop an international doctoral training hub that will become a virtual ‘centre’ of excellence for applied doctoral research in Education. Digi-Doc will deliver the following outcomes:

• An international blended programme, the EdD-I that is responsive to the needs of teachers in China, Indonesia and Vietnam and designed to be delivered collaboratively between partners
• A Digi-Doc online supervisor training programme, benchmarked to a UK accredited programme, that supports development of leading edge skills and expertise in supervising ‘close to practice research’
• A networked international community of doctoral students and supervisors with a shared commitment to the value of ‘close to practice’ research.

The 3-day virtual workshop from 14 to 16 June, 2021

Those projects have brought a lot of benefits to Nguyen Tat Thanh University (since 2016) with the highly trust and appreciation by the British Council, improve the image and reputation of the university, and also contribute to the success of the university in achieving the goal of promoting training quality, improving staff capacity and internationalization. Currently, due to the impact of the covid-19 epidemic, the project’s activities are conducted in the online forms.

The monthly virtual meetings from April to October, 2021 

Department of International Relations