Different Cultures of Russia and Vietnam in Attaining MPA Course of KOI

The research aims to identify the different goals of the international students and the manner in which they are facilitated through the MPA course that is offered by the KOI (King’s Own Institution). The research will also be aiming to assess the application of the MPA course and the manner in which it will be benefitting the industry.

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Table of Contents
1. Aim of the research/ Research Questions........................................................................2
2. Research Background......................................................................................................2
3. Literature Review............................................................................................................3
3.1. Goals of the international students...........................................................................3
3.2. The manner in which the course drives the attention of the international students..4
3.3. Goal of studying the MPA Course at KOI................................................................5
4. Academia benefits...........................................................................................................7
5. Industry benefits..............................................................................................................7
6. Objective..........................................................................................................................7
7. Scope................................................................................................................................8
8. Methodology for the research..........................................................................................8
8.1. Research approach....................................................................................................8
8.2. Research philosophy.................................................................................................9
8.3. Research Design.......................................................................................................9
8.4. Data collection Method...........................................................................................10
9. Project milestone...........................................................................................................11
References..........................................................................................................................12
Appendix............................................................................................................................14

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1. Aim of the research/ Research Questions
The aim of the research is to identify the different goals of the international students and
the manner in which they are facilitated through the MPA course that is offered by the KOI
(King’s Own Institution). On the other hand, the research will also be aiming to assess the
application of the MPA course and the manner in which it will be benefitting the industry.
The research questions those are to be answered through accomplishing the research on
the selected subject are explained under:
 What are the goals of the international students?
 What are the key factors of the MPA program that drives the attention of the
students?
 What is the goal of studying MPA at KOI?
2. Research Background
The MPA program offered by the KOI of Australia employs a competency based
curriculum in order to make sure that the students belonging to the diverse cultures of different
nations such as from Vietnam and Russia attains necessary skills. Such skills, knowledge and
abilities facilitate these students to become better public service leaders (Taylor, Bogdan and
DeVault 2015). Students belonging to different cultures such as from Russia and Vietnam are
exposed to the public service values o professionalism, ethical behavior and cultural diversity
within the competency framework. This is also measured on the intermediary competency
related with recognizing the ethical and legal implications related with diversity and social equity

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within the public service. Considering the same, the current research has an intention of
explaining the ways in which the students belonging to different cultures of Vietnam and Russia
can effectively attain the learning offered by the MPA course of KOI.
3. Literature Review
3.1. Goals of the international students
The goals of the international students are characterized by the host country’s attitude
towards the international students. As per the case, the MPA course that is offered by the KOI
aims at offering a wider scope to the international students. On the other hand, the affordability
of the course fees has also helped in maintaining the lineage with the goals of the students. The
“Master of Public Administration” course (MPA) is renowned as a professional degree of
graduation in the field of public administration. Cox III, Buck and Morgan (2015) revealed that
this course is similar to the course “Master of Business Administration” but with increased focus
on the concerns associated with the government. The course also offers increased opportunity to
all the qualified individuals to accomplish the training needs for attaining award of
“Management and Executive Career Development Certification” in Australia. Cox III and
Morgan (2015) stated that majorly in all the Australian universities including King’s Own
Institute (KOI) the MPA program includes twelve courses with 480 hours of direct instruction.
These researchers also revealed that this program will be supplemented with certain independent
and interactive online assignments. Frederickson (2015) explained that the MPA course needs
around 40 hours of direct instruction which is offered by means of a necessary face to face
residency aspect and such aspect is not able to be waived. Training credit is just deemed to be
approved for the Master of Public Administration coursework that is further granted by the

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education council and completed through King’s Own Institute University. In contrast, Greve
(2015) presented a view that training credit might not be offered to the graduate courses those are
completed at their own institutions. The individuals that desire to attain the career development
training award, credit is needed to address the under mentioned conditions:
 Remain efficient in the standing with the Australian education council or cleared “POST”
for employment and training purposes (Haverland and Yanow 2012)
 Acceptance within the Master of Public Administration program being a student seeking
degree (O'Sullivan et al. 2016)
 Attending around 90% or more in all the course residency aspect as scheduled through
the Australian University (Frederickson and Rohr 2015)
 Attaining a cumulative final average of 80% or more in all the courses
 Maintaining an effective standing being a degree seeking student within the program of
Master of Public Administration (McNabb 2015)
3.2. The manner in which the course drives the attention of the international students
The different factors of the MPA course that drives the attention of the international
students are based on the better employment opportunities that are provided to the graduates
(Pollitt and Bouckaert 2017). On the other hand, the induction on the national culture, family
influence, age/gender, religion and the like will be helping KOI to identify the driving force for
the international students towards the course. According to the views presented by
Grimmelikhuijsen et al. (2017) it has been gathered that the different cultures of Russia and
Vietnam is supported by the Kings Own Institute. This is evident through focusing on the act that
the MPA program offered by this institute is committed to the values related with cultural
diversity for supporting students from different cultural backgrounds (Rosenbloom 2016).

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Moreover, these researchers also explained that cultural diversity is also included among the
faculty, staff and the students related with the MPA program along with communicating and
instilling the diversity values. Johnson (2014) revealed that the students of this university have
become more diverse with Russian and Vietnamese students. Moreover, the institute also follows
diversity of the communities they serve along with understanding different needs along with
cultural expressions served by them (Osborne, Radnor and Nasi 2013).
The MPA program diversity philosophy addresses the ways in which these are integrated
within the selection and recruitment of Vietnamese and Russian staff, faculty and students
(Farazmand 2012). Meekosha, Wannan and Shuttleworth (2016) also added that the MPA
program offered by Kings Own Institute enhances the student experiences within the MPA
program. This includes ethnicity, race, gender identity, religion, nationality, age, socioeconomic
status and military membership. Miller and Fox (2015) also revealed that such categories are not
intended to be exhaustive rather being illustrative of the MPA program value that addresses
individual differences brought by Russian and Vietnamese students within the MPA program of
the university. These researchers also elaborated that the MPA program is very supportive for the
Russian and Vietnamese students that can enhance their career development (Menzel 2014).
This is for the reason that the institute ensures including representation of widest range of
individual characteristics and more specifically people from different cultural background
(Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault 2015).
3.3. Goal of studying the MPA Course at KOI
The MPA program will be supporting all the culture based differences among the Russian
and Vietnamese students joining the university (Hesselbarth and Schaltegger 2014). This is for
the reason that the MPA program is focused on defining diversity to these students focused on a

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wide range of individual characteristics. Therefore, the major cause of undertaking the MPA
course at KOI is based on the need of inducing the knowledge of diversity among the
international students. According to Perry and Christensen (2015) the educational culture of
Russia and Vietnam is quite different and their culture is focused on demonstrating a
commitment to diversity hat includes gender and race. Focused on the same, Room (2016) also
elaborated that the cultural difference in attaining education within these two nations is
addressed by the MPA program offered by King’s Own Institute of Australia. This program of
the nation supports students that aim to make visible its commitment to diversity along with
inclusion in the areas of student experience within the classroom.
Shafritz and Hyde (2016) indicated that such program also motivates students to be
personally committed to the cultural diversity within the public service. Numerous researches are
present regarding the cultural differences that exist in these nations that affects the educational
performance of the emigrate students. Shafritz, Borick, Russell and Hyde (2016) contrasted the
view and explained in the research that the students of this university have become more diverse
with Russian and Vietnamese students. Moreover, the institute also follows diversity of the
communities they serve along with understanding different needs along with cultural expressions
served by them (Levine, Christian and Lyons 2013). The MPA program diversity philosophy
addresses the ways in which these are integrated within the selection and recruitment of
Vietnamese and Russian staff, faculty and students. In addition, researchers such as Turner,
Fiske and Hodge (2016) elaborated that religion also serves as the important part of culture
within an origin and the destination nations such as Russia and Vietnam that impacts educational
qualification of students. Lack of knowledge, language and culture of a different nation might
result in issues regarding undergoing a MPA course within Australia or any other nation

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(Bryson, Crosby and Bloomberg 2014). Focused on such issue KOI has developed its MPA
program for these students belonging to different cultural background. This course will facilitate
these students to attain values of transparency and accountability, equity and respect,
professionalism and ethical behavior in the competency framework (Taylor, Bogdan and
DeVault 2015).
4. Academia benefits
The academia benefits of the research will be based on the identification of the critical
goals of the international students and the manner in which the course will be offering the
students with an insight of the diversity (Birkland 2015). The academia benefits of undertaking
the research will be aiming at identifying the different goals of the international students. The
course will be helping to enhance the student’s understanding of the different key concepts of
diversity relating to age, sexuality, culture and the like (Radaelli, Dente and Dossi 2012).
5. Industry benefits
The industry benefits will be based on the promotion of the educational courses, which
has contributed to the GDP of the nation. Estimation and reports state that the nation earns
$30billion every year through the providence of international standard education to the students.
As per the Deloitte Access Economics, the value of the international offshore education is
estimated to be $434 million in 2014 (Internationaleducation.gov.au 2018).
6. Objective
The objectives of undertaking the research are explained under:
 To analyze the goals of the international students

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 To evaluate the manner in which the MPA program drives the attention of the
students
 To evaluate the goal of studying MPA at KOI (Denhardt and Denhardt 2015)
7. Scope
The scope of the research consists of the different factors that will be helping to develop
the insight of the manner in which the MPA course that is offered by KOI. The research will be
incorporating the expectations of the international students and the manner in which the MPA
course will be facilitating the needs of the same while inducing the basic education on diversity.
8. Methodology for the research
8.1. Research approach
Research approach is considered to be the most important step while conducting the
research study as it will be helping he researcher in actualizing into the desired outcome of the
study. Ledford and Gast (2018) stated that the proper identification of the research approach
helps the researcher in identifying the different steps that are required to be undertaken by the
researcher in order to comply with the needs of the research for culminating into a desired and
unbiased outcome. Research approach is basically of two types, inductive approach and
deductive approach (Flick 2015). In this connection, the researcher will be undertaking the
deductive approach as it will be helping the researcher in scrutinising the different available
models and theories, which are related to the research study. The research approach will be

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helping the researcher in assessing the different activities undertaken by the same while
considering the need of undertaking an unbiased research outcome.
8.2. Research philosophy
The Research philosophy will be helping the researcher to identify the diverse factors that
might be affecting the study and thereby utilize effective research paradigm for calculating on an
unbiased outcome (Lewis 2015). Research philosophy mainly comprises of positivism,
interpretivism, realism and pragmatism. Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault (2015) stated that the
research philosophy characterizes epistemology, ontology and axiology which helps the
researcher in understanding the extent of the study. Positivism philosophy will be helping the
researcher in undertaking scientifically proven techniques for establishing the arguments and
counter- arguments (Symon and Cassell 2012). The researcher therefore chose to undertake the
positivism philosophy, which will be allowing the researcher to apply scientific techniques for
conducting the research as per the parameters (Mackey and Gass 2015). The philosophy will be
helping the researcher in undertaking the study on the feasibility of the diverse cultures and the
manner in which it is supported by KOI (King’s Own Institution) in the field of MPA. The
different scientific methods of data collection, utilized by the researcher, have helped in
identifying the different feasibility structures while conducting the study.
8.3. Research Design
Research design helps the researcher in guiding the study to a desired outcome. The goal
of undertaking the study governs the activities that are undertaken by the researcher while
undertaking the study. On the other hand, the proper functioning of the researcher through the
data collection procedure helps in retaining the unbiased outcome of the research. Taylor,
Bogdan and DeVault (2015) stated that the research design helps the researcher in understanding

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the different variables and thereby undertake calculations to derive the outcome of the study .
Research design can be of three different types, namely, explanatory research design,
exploratory research design and descriptive research design. The researcher will be
undertaking explanatory research design, which will be helping the same in identifying the
causes and the effects of the different activities targeted towards an unbiased outcome (Mackey
and Gass 2015). The goal centric design will be helping the researcher in maintaining the
different changes in the data collection techniques and the manner in which the study is to be
designed.
8.4. Data collection Method
Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault (2015) stated that Data is considered to be the fundamental
requirement for supporting the arguments and counter- arguments that are undertaken by the
researcher in the study. Collection of suitable data as per the objective of the research helps in
culminating into the target results (Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault 2015). On the other hand, the
different ways through which the data is represented and interpreted helps in maintaining the
unbiased outcome of the research. The researcher will be undertaking the primary data
collection method which will be emphasizing on creating a questionnaire and thereby record the
responses from the different samples. The researcher will be undertaking qualitative analysis
through in depth semi-structured interviews of the post-graduate business students who are
studying at the KOI in Australia. Eight interviews will be conducted during the data collection in
order to ensure the unbiased outcome of undertaking the research. The data that will be gathered
during the interviews will be rich in order to support the arguments that will be made by the
researcher while undertaking the study. Exposition to the change in the systems of the research
will be helping the researcher in interpreting the data and thereby culminate into an unbiased

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outcome. The data collection is an important aspect that will be helping the researcher in
undertaking different assumptions and thereby collecting data in order to support the cause of
undertaking the study (Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault 2015). The proficiency of the data collection
method is based on the completeness of the study, which will be enabling the researcher to
gather and interpret data through collection of samples and literature review. It will be helping
the researcher in delving deeper into the different constrains and thereby undertake an unbiased
research.
9. Project milestone
Milestone Weeks
Selection of topic and search for justification Week 1
Constructing literature Week 2
Selecting appropriate methods Week 3
Data collection Week 4
Data analysis and representation Week 5
Reviewing the outcomes Week 6
Conclusions and recommendations Week 7
Submitting draft of the project Week 8
Printing and final submission Week 9

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Appendix
Task Week
1
Week
2
Week
3
Week
4
Week
5
Week
6
Week
7
Week
8
Week
9
Selection of topic
and search for
justification
Constructing
literature
Selecting
appropriate
methods
Data collection
Data analysis and
representation
Reviewing the
outcomes
Conclusions and
recommendations

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Submitting draft
of the project
Printing and final
submission
Table 1: Table showing the timeframe of the entire research
(Source: As created by author)

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