Tran Le Huu Nghia is currently teaching at Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia). He is also an honorary researcher at Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam). He worked eight years in the Vietnamese higher education sector prior to coming to Australia where he worked as a research fellow for Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology. He completed the Master of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (2007-2009), a program coordinated by three prestigious European universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), Bilbao University (Spain) and Institute of Education (the United Kingdom). Then as an Endeavour Postgraduate Awardee (2012-2016), he completed his Ph.D., with a focus on higher education studies, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has produced several research outputs, including articles in high impact journal such as Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Journal of Education and Work, and International Journal of Education Development. His research interests include teaching and learning for employability, teacher education, international education, and teaching English as a second language.

• Acknowledgement List of Tables1 Introduction 2 The Surge of Developing Soft Skills for Students in Higher Education 3 Soft Skills Implementation in Higher Education: A literature Review 4 The Context of Soft Skills Implementation in Vietnamese Universities 5 Soft Skills Implementation Models in Vietnamese Universities 6 The Influence of Leadership on Soft Skills Implementation 7 Teaching Soft Skills: Teachers’ Beliefs, Behaviours and Influential Factors 8 Assessing Soft Skills in Vietnamese Universities: Practices and Challenges 9 Students’ Internship Experience, Employability Development and Influential Factors 10 Students’ Soft Skills Development via Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities 11 External Stakeholders’ Participation in Developing Soft Skills for Students 12 Students’ Participation and Engagement with Soft skills Development 13 Building Soft Skills for Employability: The Way AheadIndex

Tran Le Huu Nghia is currently teaching at Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia). He is also an honorary researcher at Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam). He worked eight years in the Vietnamese higher education sector prior to coming to Australia where he worked as a research fellow for Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology. He completed the Master of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (2007-2009), a program coordinated by three prestigious European universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), Bilbao University (Spain) and Institute of Education (the United Kingdom). Then as an Endeavour Postgraduate Awardee (2012-2016), he completed his Ph.D., with a focus on higher education studies, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has produced several research outputs, including articles in high impact journal such as Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Journal of Education and Work, and International Journal of Education Development. His research interests include teaching and learning for employability, teacher education, international education, and teaching English as a second language.

• Acknowledgement List of Tables1 Introduction 2 The Surge of Developing Soft Skills for Students in Higher Education 3 Soft Skills Implementation in Higher Education: A literature Review 4 The Context of Soft Skills Implementation in Vietnamese Universities 5 Soft Skills Implementation Models in Vietnamese Universities 6 The Influence of Leadership on Soft Skills Implementation 7 Teaching Soft Skills: Teachers’ Beliefs, Behaviours and Influential Factors 8 Assessing Soft Skills in Vietnamese Universities: Practices and Challenges 9 Students’ Internship Experience, Employability Development and Influential Factors 10 Students’ Soft Skills Development via Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities 11 External Stakeholders’ Participation in Developing Soft Skills for Students 12 Students’ Participation and Engagement with Soft skills Development 13 Building Soft Skills for Employability: The Way AheadIndex

Tran Le Huu Nghia is currently teaching at Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia). He is also an honorary researcher at Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam). He worked eight years in the Vietnamese higher education sector prior to coming to Australia where he worked as a research fellow for Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology. He completed the Master of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (2007-2009), a program coordinated by three prestigious European universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), Bilbao University (Spain) and Institute of Education (the United Kingdom). Then as an Endeavour Postgraduate Awardee (2012-2016), he completed his Ph.D., with a focus on higher education studies, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has produced several research outputs, including articles in high impact journal such as Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Journal of Education and Work, and International Journal of Education Development. His research interests include teaching and learning for employability, teacher education, international education, and teaching English as a second language.

• Acknowledgement List of Tables1 Introduction 2 The Surge of Developing Soft Skills for Students in Higher Education 3 Soft Skills Implementation in Higher Education: A literature Review 4 The Context of Soft Skills Implementation in Vietnamese Universities 5 Soft Skills Implementation Models in Vietnamese Universities 6 The Influence of Leadership on Soft Skills Implementation 7 Teaching Soft Skills: Teachers’ Beliefs, Behaviours and Influential Factors 8 Assessing Soft Skills in Vietnamese Universities: Practices and Challenges 9 Students’ Internship Experience, Employability Development and Influential Factors 10 Students’ Soft Skills Development via Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities 11 External Stakeholders’ Participation in Developing Soft Skills for Students 12 Students’ Participation and Engagement with Soft skills Development 13 Building Soft Skills for Employability: The Way AheadIndex