Despite considerable variations in the use of antenatal care (ANC) services in Vietnam, limited information is available on socioeconomic inequalities concerning the use of ANC services. This study aimed to assess the trends and changes in socioeconomic inequalities in the use of ANC services by women aged 15 to 49 years in Vietnam from 2006 to 2014. We used data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey conducted in 2006, 2011, and 2014. The percentage of women who received ANC services increased significantly from 26.5% in 2006 to 42.7% in 2011 and reached 56.6% in 2014. We found a decreasing trend in the concentration indices of the use of ANC services from 0.36 in 2006 to 0.19 in 2014. The common factors significantly associated with the higher percentage of the use of ANC services in 2006, 2011, and 2014 were women belonging to the Kinh and Hoa ethnic groups and belonging to wealthier groups. Our study showed a reduction in socioeconomic inequality in the use of ANC services between 2004 and 2014. However, significant inequalities still exist in the use of ANC services based on women’s education, ethnicity, and economic status.

In Vietnam, in the process of transition to a market economy, Shared Governance has become a governance trend in public universities and private universities whereby state political governance is focused on state management agencies and state administrative agencies, schools are autonomously applying Shared Governance with the participation of parties including scientists, lecturers, students, individuals and groups inside and outside school. The article uses survey data from the topic of Hanoi National University: "Annual Education Report 2018: University Administration in Vietnam in transition process" (National University topic, code No. QG.18.27), by the group author of this article, aims to clarify faculty participation of school groups in managing human resources, academia and finance. Keywords University Governance; Shared Governance; Faculty participation References [1] W.O. Brown Jr, Faculty participation in university governance and the effects on university performance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 44(2) (2001) 129-143[2] W.A. Jones, Faculty involvement in institutional governance: A literature review, Journal of the Professoriate. 6(1) (2011) 118-135.[3] Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Shared governanc: Changing with times, AGB’s White Paper March 2017.[4] Eurydice, Higher education governance in Europe. Policies, structures, funding and academic staff. Brussels: Eurydice, European Commission, Education and Culture DG, 2008.[5] J.A. Banks, An introduction to multicultural education, 2008.[6] S.R. Arnstein, A ladder of citizen participation, Journal of the American Institute of planners. 35(4) (1969) 216-224.

Background The newborn and child death associated with inadequate post-natal health checks continued to be a significant issue across the world. This study aimed to assess the socioeconomic inequalities in post-natal health checks for the newborn in Vietnam in 2014. Methods We used the secondary data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey in 2014. We included women aged 15–49 years who had a live birth within two years of the time of the interview. We estimated the concentration index to measure socioeconomic inequalities post-natal health checks for the newborn. We conducted multiple logistic regression analysis to identify factors associated with post-natal health checks for the newborn. Results Overall, the proportion of post-natal health checks for the newborn in Vietnam was 89.1%. The concentration index of post-natal health checks for the newborn was positive at 0.06. It indicated that the newborns in the rich households were more likely to get post-natal health checks as compared to in the poor households. The common factors significantly associated with the higher percentage of post-natal health checks for the newborn were women belonging to the Kinh and Hoa ethnic, higher education, and wealthier groups. Conclusion Socioeconomic inequalities in post-natal health checks for the newborn in Vietnam were not strong, but it still existed. Thus, we recommended that policy efforts to increase access to post-natal health services for poor women. In addition, there is a need to improve access to post-natal health services for women belonging to minor ethnic group and low education.

In the globalization context, Vietnamese higher education institutions need to fufill the functions of the third generation university as well as the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. In this case, the innovation-driven smart university, namely SMARTI model, was proposed. By the approach of the university ecosystem, SMARTI model has been described with 5 core values: digital skills and entrepreneurship; flexibility and connectivity; research and innovation; internationalization; and promotion of social norms. The SMARTI can be governed and benchmarked through the criteria of the university performance metrics (UPM). Priminary implementations were employed for Vietnam's leading institutions. The results show that these universities have achieved a 5-star standard equivalent to excellent universities in the top 300 in Asia.

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