Thesis information "Building a research group to improve the effectiveness of scientific research activities of lecturers at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City" by HVCH Ngo Tung Lam, majoring in Science and Technology Management.1. Full name of student: Ngo Tung Lam 2. Gender: Male 3. Date of birth: October 18, 1981 4. Place of birth: Ho Chi Minh City 5. Decision to recognize student No.: 2528/2007/QD - XHNV - KH&SDH dated July 14, 2007 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Thesis topic: Building a research group to improve the effectiveness of scientific research activities of lecturers at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City 7. Major: Science and Technology Management; Code: 60.34.72 8. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Tran Thi Mai - University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City. 9. Summary of the thesis results: The teaching staff plays a decisive role in the existence and development of universities. In addition to quality teaching, participating in and conducting scientific research is a mandatory task for university lecturers. Participating in scientific research helps lecturers have the opportunity to practice, accumulate knowledge, experience, and promote creativity to discover and solve problems in their professional fields in order to better serve the improvement of teaching quality and contribute to the development of society. Although teaching and scientific research are two closely related tasks, it is regrettable that the current assessment of the quality of lecturers in schools still does not pay much attention to their scientific research activities. There are many reasons, but the most important reason is that at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the teaching staff focuses on teaching activities to solve the requirements of life. From the analysis results of the thesis, it can be seen that the topics that are long overdue (especially the topics that have to pay back the funding) often belong to the type of topics that are theoretical, not related to experiments, not approaching social reality, the leaders of these topics conduct research independently, not in groups. The research group, in fact, was formed completely spontaneously. It comes from the requirement for human resources to ensure training activities, from the source of funding to carry out research topics, from the need to improve professional capacity for young lecturers, from the task of training and guiding students in scientific research. The combination of research and training activities can help lecturers both have the conditions to complete scientific research tasks, and integrate training activities and create scientific products. The research group and its activities not only help the faculty and school complete their research tasks but also have significance in training staff, creating continuity and inheritance of professional capacity for the team of researchers and lecturers.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Student full name: Ngo Tung Lam 2. Gender: Male 3. Date of birth: October 18th, 1981 4. Place of birth: Ho Chi Minh City 5. Decision for Student Recognizing 2528/2007/QD – XHNV – KH&SĐH December 14th, 2007 from Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University. 6. Thesis title: Building research teams for improving scientific research activities of lectures in The University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh City 7. Major: Sciences and Technologies Management 8. Code: 60.34.72 9. Thesis Advisor: PhD. Tran Thi Mai - University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh city. 10. Thesis result summary: Lecturer is the key element for the existence and development of universities. Besides qualified teaching, scientific research is an obligation for tutors at universities. Conducting scientific research helps tutors practice, accumulating knowledge, experiences, making innovations in order to discover and solve professional problems. Therefore, lecturers are able to improve their teaching as well as contribute to society developments. Teaching and research are correlated tasks. However, in universities in general and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh city in specific, evaluating indicators are not related much in tutors' scientific researches. From analysis results of this thesis, late projects, especially refunded projects, are usually theory oriented, do not relate to society's problems. Moreover, projects' leaders do research alone; do not belong to any research groups. Reasons could be: projects' objectives and constraints; limited time … The most important reason of this problem at University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh city is tutors focus on teaching tasks in order to solve day life issues. To solve those reasons and improve research activities of lecturers at University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh city, building research teams seems to be the most appropriate solution. In practice, research teams have been built naturally. They are from human resource requirements to ensure teaching activities, from financial requirements to conduct researches, from improving professional requirements of young lecturers, from requirements of teaching and advising students' research projects. Combining teaching and researching activities would help tutors accomplish researching requirements, teaching requirements as well as create scientific products. Research teams and their activities do not only help faculties and universities accomplish research requirements but also train new lecturers and create a continuousness, inheritance among researchers and lecturers.
