Bài viết phân tích mối quan hệ về tự chủ đại học với việc khẳng định về uy tín học thuật của cơ sở giáo dục, về năng lực giải trình và chịu trách nhiệm của cơ sở giáo dục, trong đó kiểm định chất lượng giáo dục như là một phương thức để cơ sở giáo dục thực hiện việc giải trình và chịu trách nhiệm. | Kiểm định chất lượng giáo dục và tự chủ đại học VNU Journal of Science: Education Research, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2019) 84-95 Original Article Higher Education Accreditation and University Autonomy Dang Ung Van1, Ta Thi Thu Hien2,* 1 Hoa Binh University, 8 Bui Xuan Phai, My Dinh 2, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi, Vietnam 2 VNU Centre for Education Accreditation, 144 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam Received 22 December 2018 Revised 25 December 2018; Accepted 27 December 2018 Abstract: University autonomy is regarded as the necessary condition to implement advanced university governance practices to improve and enhance the quality of higher education. Accreditation is one of the approaches in education management for higher education institutions to ensure their quality, while ensuring accountability for their quality to society. This paper focuses on the relationship between university autonomy and accreditation. First, the study presents practical issues regarding university autonomy, including a literature review of university autonomy across the world and in Vietnam. Second, the paper analyses the relationship of university autonomy with the affirmation of higher education institutions’ academic prestige. Third, the study analyses the accountability of higher education institutions, in which accreditation is implemented by institutions as a means for their accountability. Finally, the paper proposes four groups of recommendations for the state management organisations, accreditation agencies and higher education institutions to effectively implement university autonomy linked with Vietnamese higher education institutions’ accountability for education quality accreditation. Keywords: Higher education institutions, accreditation, university autonomy, accountability. * _ * Corresponding author. E-mail address: tahien@ 84 VNU Journal of .
