TAILIEUCHUNG - Criteria for not-for-profit and for profit private universities

This paper presents the results of the survey on the views of lecturers, students, administrators at private universities in Ho Chi Minh City, and educational experts on the criteria for identifying not-for-profit universities. Based on the findings, suggestions are offered to policy makers regarding this issue. | Criteria for not-for-profit and for profit private universities AGU International Journal of Sciences – 2019, Vol. 7 (2), 101 – 112 CRITERIA FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT AND FOR-PROFIT PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES Huong Thi Pham1, Chau Sôryaly2 1 Ho Chi Minh University of Education 2 An Giang University, VNU - HCM Information: ABSTRACT Received: 18/04/2018 For-profit or not-for-profit private universities have been recently debated in Accepted: 07/07/2018 Vietnam after an incident at one private university claimed it is a not-for- Published: 02/2019 profit. This paper presents the results of the survey on the views of lecturers, Keywords: students, administrators at private universities in Ho Chi Minh City, and Private education, for-profit educational experts on the criteria for identifying not-for-profit universities. universities, not-for-profit Based on the findings, suggestions are offered to policy makers regarding universities, Vietnam this issue. 1. THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDY A study by Altbach et al. (2009) shows that non- public higher education in the world has made The history of developing non-public universities strong progress in recent decades. In the early in the world began thousands of years ago. Until years of the 21st century, about 30% of higher now, this system has been constantly developed to education institutions were non-public institutions serve the needs of learning, researching and worldwide. The reality shows that while in some serving the community of a large number of countries, non-public higher education has existed different social sectors (Altbach, Reisberg, & and developed for a long time. Some private Rumbley, 2009). higher education institutions are now the world's In the world, many studies on non-public leading prestigious and quality institutions such as universities have been conducted: from the origin some in the United States, Japan, the United of these universities, .

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