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Vietnam Journal of Education

The paper is stemmed from the Australian policy reforms between 2014 and 2015 in a concerted atte... more The paper is stemmed from the Australian policy reforms between 2014 and 2015 in a concerted attempt to uplift Initial Teacher Education program quality and accreditation, enhance pre-service teacher’s class-readiness and equip them with essential competencies required of the teaching profession. It is coupled with the novel, emerging challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, international border closure and the global shift from face-to-face learning to virtual and/or blended learning mode since March 2020. Drawing on a descriptive case study (Chetty, 2013; Yin, 1994) on the Education Double Degree in an Australian institution, the paper unpacks the ways in which the unit leader of the Education Double Degree in an Australian institution innovated four Education units in response to these above-mentioned challenges. Central to this curriculum innovation is seeding ePortfolio via Mahara and Google Site tools into program and curriculum redesign. The paper showcases the road used to remap...

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter discusses the context of higher education reforms in Vietnam. It sets the scene by ex... more The chapter discusses the context of higher education reforms in Vietnam. It sets the scene by exploring the global forces that have shaped and reshaped the landscape of Vietnamese higher education. It then examines how the local demands have affected the higher education sector and concludes with an outline of the book structure.

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, 2022

Asia as Method in Education Studies, 2015

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter adopts an inside-out approach to interpreting the cultural modalities of the Vietname... more The chapter adopts an inside-out approach to interpreting the cultural modalities of the Vietnamese higher education. It debunks these modalities in three categories: Vietnamese traditions, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Also, it attends closely to post-1945 nation-state identities dominated by Marxism–Leninism and Ho Chi Minh ideologies. This chapter serves as a cornerstone for subsequent chapters to explore various aspects of higher education reforms.

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter draws on an Australian branch campus case in Vietnam. It addresses how work-integrate... more The chapter draws on an Australian branch campus case in Vietnam. It addresses how work-integrated learning (WIL) is incorporated into curriculum, pedagogies and institutional support. The findings show that WIL enhances students’ work readiness, strengthens industry linkages and improves graduate employability. WIL should therefore be shifted from the periphery to the core of curriculum, teaching and learning, and institutional policy making. It calls for a joint effort of different stakeholders including students, academics, institution support staff, employers, policy makers and related communities.

Onshore international students in universities, are often ascribed a deficit identity. This is as... more Onshore international students in universities, are often ascribed a deficit identity. This is associated, in the literature, with stereotyping and discrimination in the host countries. However, alternative perspectives are emerging that challenge such views and focus instead on the central role of students’ agency in shaping their own educational identities. Although valuable, this latter body of research is limited because it generally does not address the identities of offshore international students; those who pursue an overseas programme in their home country. How agential are they? This study explores the manner in which international students’ identities are formed in the transnational education (TNE) market. It focuses specifically Australian courses and programs in Vietnam. It examines this transnational education market, the principles upon which it operates and the manner in which it seeks to shape students’ identities via processes of commodification and colonisation thr...

In Vietnam changes in the global and national policy landscapes, the urge for global integration,... more In Vietnam changes in the global and national policy landscapes, the urge for global integration, the need to improve higher education quality, and the increasing number of Vietnamese school-leavers opting for higher education opportunities have fuelled the demand for transnational education (TNE). And yet, TNE has neither been documented sufficiently in the literature nor approached thoroughly from a different angle, allowing a comprehensive inquiry into the global, national and local forces which have implicitly informed the Vietnam education market. Equally, while Australian international education has propelled that country’s economy by AUD 19.2 billion and ranked as Australia’s the biggest service export industry (The Australian 2016), little has been done to look in depth at Australian transnational education, outside its borders and subject to the complex network of global and local forces and multiple actors. Most of the current research on TNE centres on quality assurance, ...

Data in Brief, 2021

This article contains supplemental datasets of the recently published related research article "S... more This article contains supplemental datasets of the recently published related research article "Synthesis, Inverse Docking-Assisted Identification and in vitro Biological Characterization of Flavonol-based Analogs of Fisetin as c-Kit, CDK2 and mTOR Inhibitors against Melanoma and Non-melanoma

Studies in Higher Education, 2017

Vietnam's history has witnessed the nation’s constant effort to learn from the outside world.... more Vietnam's history has witnessed the nation’s constant effort to learn from the outside world. This effort paradoxically co-exists with the country’s aspiration to escape from foreign domination, to protect national independence and to preserve national identity. Discussions of foreign influences in the Vietnamese education system should be situated within the overall political and historical condition of Vietnam, which has been characterised by the influence of successive external forces and foreign countries. There have been a lot of debates and discussions about the nature, benefits and tensions associated with Vietnam’s efforts to open to the world and learn from other countries while combining with and maintaining its traditional practices and values in the course of education reform over the nation’s different historical and political periods. However, hybridity in higher education as a notable phenomenon related to the interactions between Vietnamese traditions and foreign influences has not been adequately explored in empirical research. The study reported in this paper responds to this paucity in the literature. It analyses the dynamic and complex dimensions of hybridity across two Vietnamese universities. The empirical data show that hybridity is accompanied with some positive changes and reforms in teaching, learning and university governance. However, hybridity happens in largely ad hoc, fragmented and inconsistent manners across different areas of university operations. The research also indicates that the dominant force behind hybridity in the Vietnamese HE system is staff and leaders being educated overseas and exposed to foreign practices and values. It, however, shows the tensions arising from the interactions of the Western, traditional and Communist Party principles during the hybridisation process. The paper concludes by offering some implications for the development of a strategic plan and approaches to deal with potential conflicts between external influences and traditional values and assist staff with the development of their capacity to optimise the potential benefits of hybridity to enrich teaching, learning, governance and university operation.

Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease that involves interaction of both immune and ... more Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease that involves interaction of both immune and skin cells, and is characterized by cytokine-driven epidermal hyperplasia, deviant differentiation, inflammation and angiogenesis. Because available treatments for psoriasis have significant limitations, dietary products are potential natural sources of therapeutic molecules, which can rescind molecular defects associated with psoriasis and could be developed for its management. Fisetin (3,7,3′,4′- tetrahydroxyflavone), a phytochemical naturally found in pigmented fruits and vegetables has demonstrated pro-apoptotic and antioxidant effects in several malignancies. This study utilized biochemical, cellular, pharmacological and tissue-engineering tools to characterize the effects of fisetin on normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEKs), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and CD4+ T lymphocytes in 2D and 3D psoriasis-like disease models. Fisetin treatment of NHEKs dose and time-dep...

Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2019

Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disorder with high cost for therapies often complicat... more Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disorder with high cost for therapies often complicated with serious adverse effects, thus there is a need to develop cheaper, safe and effective mechanism and target-based agents for its treatment. Natural agents that can rescind molecular defects associated with psoriasis could be developed as agents for its management. We examined the associated mechanism of fisetin-induced anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory responses in 2D normal human epidermal keratinocytes(NHEK), peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs) and CD4+ T-cell cultures, and in T-cell activated 3D full-thickness human skin model of psoriasis. Fisetin(0-20mM) treatment significantly inhibited cytokines and activators-induced i) proliferation of NHEK, ii) production of Th1/Th-17 pro-inflammatory cytokines by NHEK, PBMCs and CD4+ T-cells(p<0.001) while promoting differentiation comparable to that of Vitamin-D3(0.1mM). These effects were associated with the downregulation of activated components of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MAPKs. Fisetin(30uM) treatment of 3D human psoriatic skin model, significantly modulated psoriatic features including reduction in: i) epidermal thickness, ii) proliferation, iii) antimicrobial peptide(psoriasin) expression, iv) inflammatory cytokine IL-17A production in media(p<0.001), and (v) activated mTOR effector, p70S6K. These observations are similar to that seen with Vitamin-D3. In summary, we found that fisetin-induced promotion of differentiation and inhibition of proliferation and inflammatory responses in 2D cultures and in 3D skin model of psoriasis is associated with down-regulation of components of the PI3K/AkT/mTOR signaling. These results highlight the mechanistic potential of fisetin that could be exploited for its development for the treatment of psoriasis and possibly other related cutaneous inflammatory disorders.

Higher Education Dynamics, 2018

Mandating English as the medium of instruction (EMI) is a common strategy that higher education i... more Mandating English as the medium of instruction (EMI) is a common strategy that higher education institutions (HEIs) in non-English-dominant contexts often use in the process of internationalisation. The English language has, therefore, become a tool that enables the internationalisation and mobility of academics, students, programs and institutions. However, one problem relating to EMI is the issue of teaching and learning quality because students and academics have to work in a foreign language and encounter much difficulty. Vietnamese higher education (HE) is a case in point when its government promulgated HE reform in 2005 in which internationalisation and EMI served as the key for enhancing the sector. EMI has then been stipulated in an increasing number of universities, often in cooperation with HEIs from English-speaking countries. Against that background, the study reported in this chapter presents the EMI implementation realities in a Vietnamese university with focus on language aspects. Using Language Management Theory as the framework of analysis, it is revealed that EMI in Vietnamese HE has been regarded as a means to an end in the process of internationalisation rather than a strategic approach to improve students’ and academics’ English language proficiency (ELP), also to access updated trans-national knowledge and intellectual resources and to enhance international collaboration. It is, argued that the absence of an organised language management for EMI has disadvantaged academics and students and therefore hampered institutional and national goal of improving education quality in the context of globalisation and internationalisation.

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017

Lewis-acid-catalysed reaction of 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles with a variety of terminal alkynes has bee... more Lewis-acid-catalysed reaction of 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles with a variety of terminal alkynes has been developed. The key step involves alkylation of 3-aryl (or) 3-alkyl, 3-hydroxyoxindoles with terminal alkyne as π-electron-rich system to give a variety of 2-oxindoles with an all-carbon quaternary centre.

Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2017

Plant Disease, 2016

In total, 310 rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) isolates from Japan showed wide variation in... more In total, 310 rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) isolates from Japan showed wide variation in virulence. Virulence on rice (Oryza sativa L.) differential varieties (DV) harboring resistance genes Pish, Pia, Pii, Pi3, Pi5(t), Pik-s, and Pi19(t) ranged from 82.9 to 100.0%. In contrast, virulence on DV possessing Pib, Pit, Pik-m, Pi1, Pik-h, Pik, Pik-p, Pi7(t), Pi9(t), Piz, Piz-5, Piz-t, Pita-2, Pita, Pi12(t), and Pi20(t) ranged from 0 to 21.6%. Cluster analysis using the reaction patterns of the DV classified isolates into three groups: I, virulent to Pik, Pik-h, Pik-p, Pik-m, Pi1, and Pi7(t); IIa, avirulent to the preceding 6 genes and virulent to Pia, Pii, Pi3, and Pi5(t); and IIb, avirulent to all 10 genes. Group I was limited to northern Japan and group IIb to central Japan, while group IIa was distributed throughout Japan. We estimate that group IIa represents the original population and that groups I and IIb arose from it through minor changes in pathogenicity. We classified...

Vietnam Journal of Education

The paper is stemmed from the Australian policy reforms between 2014 and 2015 in a concerted atte... more The paper is stemmed from the Australian policy reforms between 2014 and 2015 in a concerted attempt to uplift Initial Teacher Education program quality and accreditation, enhance pre-service teacher’s class-readiness and equip them with essential competencies required of the teaching profession. It is coupled with the novel, emerging challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, international border closure and the global shift from face-to-face learning to virtual and/or blended learning mode since March 2020. Drawing on a descriptive case study (Chetty, 2013; Yin, 1994) on the Education Double Degree in an Australian institution, the paper unpacks the ways in which the unit leader of the Education Double Degree in an Australian institution innovated four Education units in response to these above-mentioned challenges. Central to this curriculum innovation is seeding ePortfolio via Mahara and Google Site tools into program and curriculum redesign. The paper showcases the road used to remap...

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter discusses the context of higher education reforms in Vietnam. It sets the scene by ex... more The chapter discusses the context of higher education reforms in Vietnam. It sets the scene by exploring the global forces that have shaped and reshaped the landscape of Vietnamese higher education. It then examines how the local demands have affected the higher education sector and concludes with an outline of the book structure.

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, 2022

Asia as Method in Education Studies, 2015

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter adopts an inside-out approach to interpreting the cultural modalities of the Vietname... more The chapter adopts an inside-out approach to interpreting the cultural modalities of the Vietnamese higher education. It debunks these modalities in three categories: Vietnamese traditions, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Also, it attends closely to post-1945 nation-state identities dominated by Marxism–Leninism and Ho Chi Minh ideologies. This chapter serves as a cornerstone for subsequent chapters to explore various aspects of higher education reforms.

Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education, 2019

The chapter draws on an Australian branch campus case in Vietnam. It addresses how work-integrate... more The chapter draws on an Australian branch campus case in Vietnam. It addresses how work-integrated learning (WIL) is incorporated into curriculum, pedagogies and institutional support. The findings show that WIL enhances students’ work readiness, strengthens industry linkages and improves graduate employability. WIL should therefore be shifted from the periphery to the core of curriculum, teaching and learning, and institutional policy making. It calls for a joint effort of different stakeholders including students, academics, institution support staff, employers, policy makers and related communities.

Onshore international students in universities, are often ascribed a deficit identity. This is as... more Onshore international students in universities, are often ascribed a deficit identity. This is associated, in the literature, with stereotyping and discrimination in the host countries. However, alternative perspectives are emerging that challenge such views and focus instead on the central role of students’ agency in shaping their own educational identities. Although valuable, this latter body of research is limited because it generally does not address the identities of offshore international students; those who pursue an overseas programme in their home country. How agential are they? This study explores the manner in which international students’ identities are formed in the transnational education (TNE) market. It focuses specifically Australian courses and programs in Vietnam. It examines this transnational education market, the principles upon which it operates and the manner in which it seeks to shape students’ identities via processes of commodification and colonisation thr...

In Vietnam changes in the global and national policy landscapes, the urge for global integration,... more In Vietnam changes in the global and national policy landscapes, the urge for global integration, the need to improve higher education quality, and the increasing number of Vietnamese school-leavers opting for higher education opportunities have fuelled the demand for transnational education (TNE). And yet, TNE has neither been documented sufficiently in the literature nor approached thoroughly from a different angle, allowing a comprehensive inquiry into the global, national and local forces which have implicitly informed the Vietnam education market. Equally, while Australian international education has propelled that country’s economy by AUD 19.2 billion and ranked as Australia’s the biggest service export industry (The Australian 2016), little has been done to look in depth at Australian transnational education, outside its borders and subject to the complex network of global and local forces and multiple actors. Most of the current research on TNE centres on quality assurance, ...

Data in Brief, 2021

This article contains supplemental datasets of the recently published related research article "S... more This article contains supplemental datasets of the recently published related research article "Synthesis, Inverse Docking-Assisted Identification and in vitro Biological Characterization of Flavonol-based Analogs of Fisetin as c-Kit, CDK2 and mTOR Inhibitors against Melanoma and Non-melanoma

Studies in Higher Education, 2017

Vietnam's history has witnessed the nation’s constant effort to learn from the outside world.... more Vietnam's history has witnessed the nation’s constant effort to learn from the outside world. This effort paradoxically co-exists with the country’s aspiration to escape from foreign domination, to protect national independence and to preserve national identity. Discussions of foreign influences in the Vietnamese education system should be situated within the overall political and historical condition of Vietnam, which has been characterised by the influence of successive external forces and foreign countries. There have been a lot of debates and discussions about the nature, benefits and tensions associated with Vietnam’s efforts to open to the world and learn from other countries while combining with and maintaining its traditional practices and values in the course of education reform over the nation’s different historical and political periods. However, hybridity in higher education as a notable phenomenon related to the interactions between Vietnamese traditions and foreign influences has not been adequately explored in empirical research. The study reported in this paper responds to this paucity in the literature. It analyses the dynamic and complex dimensions of hybridity across two Vietnamese universities. The empirical data show that hybridity is accompanied with some positive changes and reforms in teaching, learning and university governance. However, hybridity happens in largely ad hoc, fragmented and inconsistent manners across different areas of university operations. The research also indicates that the dominant force behind hybridity in the Vietnamese HE system is staff and leaders being educated overseas and exposed to foreign practices and values. It, however, shows the tensions arising from the interactions of the Western, traditional and Communist Party principles during the hybridisation process. The paper concludes by offering some implications for the development of a strategic plan and approaches to deal with potential conflicts between external influences and traditional values and assist staff with the development of their capacity to optimise the potential benefits of hybridity to enrich teaching, learning, governance and university operation.

Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease that involves interaction of both immune and ... more Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease that involves interaction of both immune and skin cells, and is characterized by cytokine-driven epidermal hyperplasia, deviant differentiation, inflammation and angiogenesis. Because available treatments for psoriasis have significant limitations, dietary products are potential natural sources of therapeutic molecules, which can rescind molecular defects associated with psoriasis and could be developed for its management. Fisetin (3,7,3′,4′- tetrahydroxyflavone), a phytochemical naturally found in pigmented fruits and vegetables has demonstrated pro-apoptotic and antioxidant effects in several malignancies. This study utilized biochemical, cellular, pharmacological and tissue-engineering tools to characterize the effects of fisetin on normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEKs), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and CD4+ T lymphocytes in 2D and 3D psoriasis-like disease models. Fisetin treatment of NHEKs dose and time-dep...

Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2019

Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disorder with high cost for therapies often complicat... more Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disorder with high cost for therapies often complicated with serious adverse effects, thus there is a need to develop cheaper, safe and effective mechanism and target-based agents for its treatment. Natural agents that can rescind molecular defects associated with psoriasis could be developed as agents for its management. We examined the associated mechanism of fisetin-induced anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory responses in 2D normal human epidermal keratinocytes(NHEK), peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs) and CD4+ T-cell cultures, and in T-cell activated 3D full-thickness human skin model of psoriasis. Fisetin(0-20mM) treatment significantly inhibited cytokines and activators-induced i) proliferation of NHEK, ii) production of Th1/Th-17 pro-inflammatory cytokines by NHEK, PBMCs and CD4+ T-cells(p<0.001) while promoting differentiation comparable to that of Vitamin-D3(0.1mM). These effects were associated with the downregulation of activated components of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MAPKs. Fisetin(30uM) treatment of 3D human psoriatic skin model, significantly modulated psoriatic features including reduction in: i) epidermal thickness, ii) proliferation, iii) antimicrobial peptide(psoriasin) expression, iv) inflammatory cytokine IL-17A production in media(p<0.001), and (v) activated mTOR effector, p70S6K. These observations are similar to that seen with Vitamin-D3. In summary, we found that fisetin-induced promotion of differentiation and inhibition of proliferation and inflammatory responses in 2D cultures and in 3D skin model of psoriasis is associated with down-regulation of components of the PI3K/AkT/mTOR signaling. These results highlight the mechanistic potential of fisetin that could be exploited for its development for the treatment of psoriasis and possibly other related cutaneous inflammatory disorders.

Higher Education Dynamics, 2018

Mandating English as the medium of instruction (EMI) is a common strategy that higher education i... more Mandating English as the medium of instruction (EMI) is a common strategy that higher education institutions (HEIs) in non-English-dominant contexts often use in the process of internationalisation. The English language has, therefore, become a tool that enables the internationalisation and mobility of academics, students, programs and institutions. However, one problem relating to EMI is the issue of teaching and learning quality because students and academics have to work in a foreign language and encounter much difficulty. Vietnamese higher education (HE) is a case in point when its government promulgated HE reform in 2005 in which internationalisation and EMI served as the key for enhancing the sector. EMI has then been stipulated in an increasing number of universities, often in cooperation with HEIs from English-speaking countries. Against that background, the study reported in this chapter presents the EMI implementation realities in a Vietnamese university with focus on language aspects. Using Language Management Theory as the framework of analysis, it is revealed that EMI in Vietnamese HE has been regarded as a means to an end in the process of internationalisation rather than a strategic approach to improve students’ and academics’ English language proficiency (ELP), also to access updated trans-national knowledge and intellectual resources and to enhance international collaboration. It is, argued that the absence of an organised language management for EMI has disadvantaged academics and students and therefore hampered institutional and national goal of improving education quality in the context of globalisation and internationalisation.

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017

Lewis-acid-catalysed reaction of 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles with a variety of terminal alkynes has bee... more Lewis-acid-catalysed reaction of 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles with a variety of terminal alkynes has been developed. The key step involves alkylation of 3-aryl (or) 3-alkyl, 3-hydroxyoxindoles with terminal alkyne as π-electron-rich system to give a variety of 2-oxindoles with an all-carbon quaternary centre.

Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2017

Plant Disease, 2016

In total, 310 rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) isolates from Japan showed wide variation in... more In total, 310 rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) isolates from Japan showed wide variation in virulence. Virulence on rice (Oryza sativa L.) differential varieties (DV) harboring resistance genes Pish, Pia, Pii, Pi3, Pi5(t), Pik-s, and Pi19(t) ranged from 82.9 to 100.0%. In contrast, virulence on DV possessing Pib, Pit, Pik-m, Pi1, Pik-h, Pik, Pik-p, Pi7(t), Pi9(t), Piz, Piz-5, Piz-t, Pita-2, Pita, Pi12(t), and Pi20(t) ranged from 0 to 21.6%. Cluster analysis using the reaction patterns of the DV classified isolates into three groups: I, virulent to Pik, Pik-h, Pik-p, Pik-m, Pi1, and Pi7(t); IIa, avirulent to the preceding 6 genes and virulent to Pia, Pii, Pi3, and Pi5(t); and IIb, avirulent to all 10 genes. Group I was limited to northern Japan and group IIb to central Japan, while group IIa was distributed throughout Japan. We estimate that group IIa represents the original population and that groups I and IIb arose from it through minor changes in pathogenicity. We classified...