
Ly TranDeakin University · School of Education
Ly Tran
Doctor of Philosophy
International education, international students, employability, student mobility, Vietnamese HE.
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September 2017 - present
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- Fellow
January 2017 - present
February 2008 - June 2013
Education
March 2003 - July 2007
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Around the world, 4.3 million students are engaged in international education each year. However, there is a paucity in theory and empirical research on teachers’ professionalism in international education. This paper aims to fill out this gap and contribute to our understanding of teache...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H.,, Aldana, R & Nguyen, D.. (2024). Good practice Guide for supporting international students with crisis navigation. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-supporting-international-students-crisi...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H., Aldana, R & Nguyen, D. (2024). Guide for supporting international students with accommodation . Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-supporting-international-students-accommodation
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H., Aldana, R & Nguyen, D. (2024). A framework for developing innovative programs to enhance international student engagement. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/framework-developing-innovative-progr...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H.,, Aldana, R & Nguyen, D. (2024). Guide for enhancing international students’ mental health and wellbeing. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-enhancing-international-students-mental-health-an...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H., Aldana, R & Nguyen, D. (2024). Guide for enhancing international students’ work-integrated learning and employability. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-enhancing-international-student-eng...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H., Aldana, R & Nguyen, D. (2024). Guide for enhancing international student engagement through teaching, learning and language. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-enhancing-international-stude...
Tran, L., Blackmore, J., Hartridge, D., Forbes-Mewett, H., Aldana, R & Nguyen, D.(2024). Guide for enhancing international students’ intercultural and community engagement. Australian Government Department of Education. Accessed: https://www.education.gov.au/international-education-engagement/resources/guide-international-students-intercultural-and...
Purpose
This article reviews the intercultural adaptability (IA) development models for students in South Korea and China in response to the growing internationalisation of higher education. The article provides significant implications for Confucian heritage culture (CHC) countries and others that wish to enhance in higher education.
Design/metho...
Outbound student mobility has gained increased popularity over the past two decades. It involves an array of stakeholders including students, academics, mobility practitioners and home and host communities. Despite challenges, learning abroad creates a range of impacts on individuals, institutions, and society. Existing research on learning abroad...
Despite the booming reverse student mobility in international higher education, pertinent literature is limited due to a narrow focus on the employability and employment of returning graduates, without considering their holistic lived experience in the home context that is subjected to shaping forces of grand narratives that emerge alongside shifti...
Research suggests that many international students experience intimate partner violence (IPV) or sexual violence (SV) whilst attending tertiary institutions. Yet, little is known about how they engage in help-seeking and what types of support they need following IPV/SV. In this paper, we present findings from a qualitative analysis of 30 in-depth i...
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education.
The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, am...
Student agency is integral to their educational experiences and outcomes. Research on student agency in international education concentrates largely on how international students enact agency in a Western education context. There is a critical need to gain more insights into student agency in international education in an under-represented context...
How do universities encourage academics to buy into a shared vision while often setting punitive targets in teaching and research? This article explores possible antecedents of a university’s shared vision and its relationships with academics’ research and teaching performance in the era of managerialism. This cross-country study of two large unive...
This chapter summarizes the main findings of the previous chapters to tease out the key messages of the whole book project. We note down the contribution of English language education to the development of Vietnamese students’ employability and its influence on their career prospects. We also provide a clearer picture of how English language educat...
This chapter provides an introduction into the book. It briefly summarizes issues related to graduate employability and points out that English language competency is an essential employability capital itself, and English language education can help develop other types of employability capital. Based on evidence from the literature, it points out t...
This chapter sketches out the socio-economic, cultural, political, and technological changes at the national level in Vietnam since the Đổi Mới policy in 1986, marking Vietnam’s readiness to embrace national economic development, internationalization, and globalization. It reviews Vietnam’s national foreign language policy and current practices of...
Despite new developments and a growing commitment to internationalization of higher education at the government and institutional levels, Vietnam remains largely on the periphery of existing scholarship on international higher education. Even though students are both key actors and beneficiaries of internationalization at home, insufficient attenti...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalisation in the international higher education sector was underlined by migration to online delivery across different educational contexts. However, research into the execution of digitalisation together with its impacts on the teaching and learning of international students in higher education is scattered and f...
International student mobility has traditionally witnessed a global South-North pattern. In recent years, a shift has occurred as the appeal of alternative geographies waxes, with Malaysia being an exemplar of inbound student mobility destination. To facilitate a deep probe of the under-researched global South-South student mobility, this study uti...
Geopolitics is shaping the international education landscape. International education has trationally been used as a tool to boost transnational cooperation, foster multilateral and global ties, and reduce tensions between nations. Such a role has been eroded and international education has been weaponised in the context of escalating political tur...
Despite a range of internationalisation efforts at the government and institutional levels, Vietnam remains on the periphery of the existing scholarship on international education, especially inbound mobility. Drawing on interviews with 38 participants, this article provides insights into how Australian students arrive at a comparative, internation...
With a population of about 98.5 million, Vietnam is the world’s 14th largest and ASEAN’s 3rd largest nation. Since 1986, when a policy of Đổi mới (economic renovation) marked the transition from centralized planning to a socialist-oriented market model, many changes have been made to the higher education sector. This chapter provides an overview of...
Graduate employability does not equate employment but is instead a process of professional and personal development, in which universities play a crucial role. This chapter reports on how employability skills, knowledge and attributes are viewed by a key group of stakeholders in the graduate employability space: university leaders and academics. Th...
The previous chapter, Chap. 7, discusses university leaders’ and academics’ perspectives of the core employability skills, knowledge and attributes, echoed by those of the employers reported in Chap. 5. This chapter focuses on the findings about universities’ strategies and barriers in enhancing graduate employability, based on the focus group disc...
To understand and support the development of graduate employability, it is essential to take into consideration the perspectives of different related stakeholders, among which employers play a crucial role. This chapter, therefore, presents employers’ perceptions of the key generic skills, knowledge and attributes that new graduates need to demonst...
This chapter analyses employers’ approaches to assessing graduates’ professional skills and knowledge as part of their recruitment process. The study shows that graduates are assessed by various stakeholders using criterion-based performance indicators, observation, group meetings or subjective judgements. The recruitment procedure mainly consists...
This chapter explores graduates’ experiences and perspectives on the employability knowledge, skills and attributes required by the labour market. The data were drawn from interviews with graduates across disciplines and universities within a broader project on employers’ needs and graduate employability in the Northern region of Vietnam. Graduates...
Over the past few decades following Đổi mới (Economic and Social Reform), the Vietnamese government and its ministries have issued many legal normative documents to provide direction and guidance to build a highly qualified workforce to achieve the country’s development goals in the new era. This chapter examines the Vietnamese government’s view on...
This chapter discusses the broader socio-cultural economic and educational context of Vietnam, which shapes the demand for graduate employability in the country. It begins by analysing the impacts of Đổi mới policy on graduate employability. It then proceeds with a critical review of existing research on core issues related to graduate employabilit...
Graduate employability is one of the critical issues facing universities and related stakeholders worldwide. The current labour market constraints, exaggerated by COVID-19, have made graduate employability more pressing than ever. Vietnam urgently needs to develop more nuanced understandings about graduate employability based on the views of key st...
This article aims to generate insights into the complex and dynamic phenomenon of international education as global trade and how it has been shaped and reshaped by changing circumstances. It first provides a critical review of the rationales underpinning how international education becomes part of global trade, the strategies used by different cou...
This chapter summarises the main themes emerging from the study reported in this book and identifies recommendations essential for strategic planning, policies and practices to enhance graduate employability. It brings together key findings about the labour market needs and skills gaps encountered by employers in Vietnam. It synthesises the practic...
This article draws on Lefebvre’s production of space to understand the cultural negotiations and underlying meanings of being and becoming an international student. Rich and multiple data sources including video/audio recordings of classroom interactions, field notes, interviews, diaries, and institutional documents from a Vietnamese student’s part...
While a growing body of literature focuses on international students, their post-study experiences and employment outcomes when they are on temporary graduate visas in the host country are under-researched. The article addresses this critical gap by investigating international graduates' employment experiences and outcomes. It is derived from a stu...
This article examines how graduate employability is viewed by employers in six economically disadvantaged mountainous provinces in Vietnam. The study reported in this article identified continuous self-learning, resilience, adaptability, devotion and empathy for the local people and local community to be among the main employability attributes expe...
This article draws on the concept of the Production of Space (Lefebvre, 1991) to interpret the silence of one female international student from Japan in two semesters of study in a New Zealand Tertiary institution. Data from an English for Academic Purposes course and mainstream courses, and from various sources including video/audio recordings of...
Embedding learning abroad as part of the curriculum has become popular in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and European countries. In Australia, the government has actively promoted and committed to funding students’ learning abroad in the Indo-Pacific region which is considered to be strategic to the nation's prosperity and public diplomacy....
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Conceptual note:
What is higher education?
What is the role of students in it?
The existing scholarly literature mostly posits higher education as a place fo...
Major host countries of international students such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have introduced post-study work rights as a strategic policy to both enhance their destination attraction and support international students’ post-graduation work experiences. While this policy is generally welcomed by both host institutions an...
This paper interrogates international and domestic peer relations in two Australian schools and how they are shaped by structural, cultural and discursive dimensions of schooling. In particular, it analyses intercultural relations between domestic and international students in the context of policies promoting "internationalisation-at-home". We arg...
Over the past decade, a growing number of graduates, originally from key source countries of international students such as China and Viet Nam, have returned home after graduation from overseas universities. In particular, there seems to be a recent surge in the number of international graduates heading home due to the high unemployment, tightening...
East Asia is a most dynamic region and its fast developing higher education and research systems are gathering great momentum. East Asian higher education has common cultural roots in Chinese civilization, and in indigenous traditions, each country has been shaped in different ways by Western intervention, and all are building global strategies. Sh...
This article focuses on school staff' perspectives about the value of international students, using data from interviews with 51 teachers, school leaders and international student support officers across eight schools in Australia. The positioning of international students by the interviewees shows how hosting this cohort can assist to boost school...
The Australian government has considered youth mobility to the Indo-Pacific to be crucial in building Australia’s connection with the region. Despite a growing trend of Australian student mobility to the Indo-Pacific, there has been a dearth of research on mobility youth’s agency in public diplomacy.1This article makes an original contribution to t...
Over the past decades, the Vietnamese government has strategically encouraged the import of the ‘Western’ curriculum through the so-called Advanced Programmes. It is envisioned that by learning from the more advanced systems such as Australia, Canada, the US, and the UK, Vietnamese universities will be able to overhaul their outdated curriculum and...
Drawing on the concepts of imagined community and production of space, this article introduces the concept of imagined social space to understand hopes, dreams, worries, fears, sadness and happiness of three international students who have left their homelands to study in an unfamiliar academic social space. Data from qualitative in-depth interview...
A growing number of pre-service teachers (PSTs), who traditionally tend to be less internationally mobile than students in other fields, are participating in mobility programs to the Indo-Pacific region. This article analyses the extent to which Australian pre-service teachers’ international mobility experiences via the New Colombo Plan (NCP) contr...
This study delves into emic perceptions of Chinese international doctoral students’ navigation of a disrupted study trajectory during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with students and the conceptual framework of bioecological systems theory and needs-response agency, the article reveals a nuanced picture...
International graduate employability is critical to host universities’ positioning in the education export market, internationalisation agenda and ethical responsibility to international students and alumni. However, little is known about the positioning and re-positioning of international graduates in their home labour market. This article respond...
One in four Australian undergraduate students participates in learning abroad during their study. Since 2012, faculty-led mobility programmes have overtaken exchange programs to become the most popular outbound mobility type in Australia. However, little has been known about how faculty-led short-term mobility programmes affect students’ employabil...
Most research on international students’ experiences has focused on tertiary settings and consistently shows that this cohort negotiates significant risks during their time abroad. This paper draws on data from the first year of a three-year Australian Research Council funded study to address the un(der)examined cohort of young people who complete...
Transnational education has experienced a phenomenal growth over the past decade. As a dynamic but complex phenomenon, transnational education involves the delivery of curriculum and educational practices developed in one country to students in other countries. Therefore, transnational education is associated with not only benefits but also challen...
Abstract
Purpose
International student employability has been accorded increased emphasis in the internationalisation agendas, especially in major destination countries as it shapes universities' attractiveness to prospective international students. Having insights into returning graduates' employability in their home country has become critical gi...
Australia has shifted its student mobility agenda since 2014 with a commitment to see learning abroad in the Indo‐Pacific region, rather than in traditional destinations such as anglophone countries, as a ‘rite of passage’ for Australian students' future life and career. While there has been rich literature on the impact of outbound student mobilit...
Learning abroad is a primary dimension of internationalization of higher education, but little is known about the social impact of learning abroad. While a significant body of the literature in international education has examined learning abroad from the student and academic perspectives, how host communities, especially in the Indo-Pacific, perce...
Despite a significant number of international graduates staying in the
host countries on post-graduation visas, their experiences in gaining
access to the host labour market are less documented. This article
addresses this critical but under-researched topic. It discusses the
ecological circumstances impacting international graduates’ participation...
This article is based on a study that explores international students’ understanding of academic literacies in New Zealand library environments. The article aims to provide insights into international higher degree students’ (IHDSs’) understandings of their academic literacy practices in library environments. To address this issue, the study utiliz...
This paper explores the professional development needs of leaders in response to emergent demands for leadership and competing pressures within the changing landscape of Australian international education. Framed within Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus, this study addresses five dimensions of professional development needs reported by leade...