Building an articulation or dual-degree route with a Vietnamese institution

Partnering with a Vietnamese university for credit transfer or a dual award is a different kind of pipeline: slower to build, steadier once running, and without commission attached to each student.

What has to be settled

• Credit mapping, module by module. The unglamorous core of the whole thing, and the part that consumes academic time nobody budgeted.
• Language of instruction at each stage, and the English level required at transfer — stated as a number, assessed when.
• Which institution awards what. Dual award, joint award and credit transfer are three different products with three different recognition consequences.
• Recognition in Vietnam of the final qualification, for students who return. This is the question a family will ask, and it needs an answer before launch.
• Quality assurance obligations on both sides, and who carries them.

Where these arrangements fail

Almost always in year two, when the academic who championed it moves on and nobody owns the relationship. Name a successor at signature, not later.

The realistic timeline

Longer than a recruitment agreement, by a wide margin, because it involves academic committees on both sides. Institutions expecting enrolment in the first cycle are usually disappointed; those planning for the third are usually satisfied.

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