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Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Tertiary education
  • Work-integrated learning
  • International Education
  • graduate employability
  • School-to-work transition

Available to supervise research students

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About Ha Nguyen

Ha is a Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute. Prior to this current position, she was a Research Fellow at the Education Innovation Hub, VU RISE, Victoria University. Ha has an internationally recognised research track record in work-integrated learning. Her current research interests also include graduate employability, university-industry partnership, higher education, vocational education, transition from education to work and vice versa.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Education, La Trobe University, Australia, 2019
  • Master of Education, RMIT University, Australia, 2014
  • Bachelor of International Relations (Hons), Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Vietnam, 2012

Key publications

Year Citation
2023 Ha, N. TN., Hoang, C. H., Knight, E., & Hurley, P. (230101). What Drives International Students to Choose Australia as Their Tertiary Education Destination? A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence. Journal of International Students, 13(4), (146-168).

doi: 10.32674/jis.v14i4.5983

2023 Thi, Ngoc. (230101). Implementation of on-campus work-integrated learning activities in Vietnamese universities: don t rely on lecturers . Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(8), (1124-1139).

doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2023.2217648

2023 Thi, Ngoc., Spittle, M., Watt, A., & Van, Dyke. (230101). A systematic literature review of micro-credentials in higher education: a non-zero-sum game. Higher Education Research and Development, 42(6), (1527-1548).

doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2146061

2022 Thi, Ngoc., & Dakich, E. (220617). Student internship experiences: areas for improvement and student choices of internship practices. Education and Training, 64(4), (516-532).

doi: 10.1108/ET-09-2021-0337

2022 Thi, Ngoc., Dakich, E., & Grieshaber, S. (220509). Factors influencing the participation of industry professionals in Work-Integrated Learning in Vietnamese universities: a qualitative approach. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 12(3), (574-587).

doi: 10.1108/HESWBL-03-2021-0042

2022 Nguyen, T. NH., & Nguyen, V. D. (220101). Enhancing student employability: A mixed-methods study into work-integrated learning curricula in Vietnamese universities. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING, 23(3), (405-425).
2022 Ha, N. TN. (220101). The involvement of industry professionals and barriers to involvement in work-integrated learning: the case of the profession-oriented higher education framework in Vietnam. Journal of Education and Work, 35(1), (92-107).

doi: 10.1080/13639080.2021.2018408

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Key academic roles

Dates Role Department / Organisation
Jan 2023 - Present
Research Fellow
Mitchell Institute
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Research Fellow
Education Innovation Hub, VU RISE
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Jan 2023 -
Present
Research Fellow
Mitchell Institute
Nov 2021 -
Dec 2022
Research Fellow
Education Innovation Hub, VU RISE

Awards

Year Award
2016

La Trobe Postgraduate Research Scholarship and La Trobe International Full Fee Research Scholarship - La Trobe University, Australia

Professional memberships

  • Member, Australian association of research in education

Media appearances

05th November 2023

Gonski for universities: what if we funded higher education like schools?

Australia currently has a needs-based model for schools. This was introduced as part of the “Gonski” reforms a decade ago and is called the “Schooling Resources Standard”. In our paper we explored what would happen if a model similar the Schooling Resource Standard was introduced in Australian universities. We found a needs-based funding model, using the same parameters as the Schooling Resource Standard, would see an overall 11% increase in base funding amounts to universities for government-funded students. We estimate this would mean about an extra A$1.3 billion per year in federal government funding.