Centralized Control
The centralized control and administration of the educational systems in Vietnam by the central government is a way of life. MOET, the Ministry of Education and Training is the source of all formal leadership in the field of education within Vietnam. There is a desire by the central government to decentralize decision-making accountability to higher education institutions for the purposes of achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources; and on the other hand, there is also a desire by the central government to retain control of the socialist orientation of higher education and of the deployment of the sector within a framework of centralized national economic management (Hayden& Lam, 2007).