Vietnamese Higher Education, Student Identity, and Human Capital Futures: Who Do We Believe or Imagine University Students to Be?

Students make up the most sizeable number of persons at any educational institution. In this chapter, I maintain the ‘idea’ of who or what a student might be, in the case of Vietnamese higher educationHigher education, is crucial to sustainable human capitalHuman capital development. My aim in this chapter is not to explicitly state what the social identitiesIdentity of Vietnamese higher education students are at present or what they should be. In contrast, the purpose of this chapter is to make a case for the importance of human capitalHuman capital through higher education by considering the ways in which students are conceptualised.