Improving University Managers’ Adaptability to Change in the Current Context of Education Reform in Vietnam

Abstract

The study of “university managers’ adaptability to change in the current context of education reform in Vietnam - the case of Vietnam National University, Hanoi” was first presented in VNU Journal of Science: Education Research - Vol. 32, No. 3 (2016). Based on the study results, a framework of university managers’ adaptability to change in the current context of education reform in Vietnam was proposed. According to the framework, university managers’ adatability involves: a sense of changes; understanding the negative and positive effects of changes on oneself and on one’s school; overcoming challenges in the most effective way. Most importantly, the adaptability of a manager is closely related to changes in the way he/she manages his/her institution.