Conference on Education Quality Assurance for the 2020 School Year

The conference was held to evaluate and review the main results in the school's quality assurance work in 2020; deploy plans and solutions to ensure and improve the school's education quality in 2021.

Dr. Tran Thuy Anh presented the Report on quality assurance activities in 2020 and the period 2015-2020

At the Conference, Dr. Tran Thuy Anh - Director of the Center for Education Quality Assurance presented a Report on the quality assurance activities in 2020 and the period 2015-2020 of the School. Dr. Tran Thuy Anh emphasized: In general, in the period 2015-2020, quality assurance and quality evaluation activities were carried out regularly every year, quality culture was maintained, quality improvement activities were enhanced, and surveys to collect opinions of relevant parties were carried out regularly with increasingly positive results over the years. The targets of the quality assurance and quality evaluation plan for training majors in the period 2015-2020 were completed.

In 2020 alone, the University conducted a quality assessment of training programs according to the AUN-QA standards for 1 program (Political Science) and peer assessment according to the VNU standards for 5 programs (Social Work, Management Science, Office Management, Hotel Management, Public Relations). According to the Doctor, there are still some limitations that need to be overcome such as: Output standards, teaching programs, and assessment tests are not compatible with each other; there are no regulations on rubrics and scoring scales for assessment tests; there is no regular participation of stakeholders in designing/adjusting output standards and teaching programs.

At the Conference, a number of solutions to improve the work of quality assurance were proposed, such as: Building a quality assurance network; periodically reviewing/evaluating and improving the quality of the system of regulations, procedures and quality assurance tools; strengthening and expanding the subjects for receiving feedback on training programs and schools; organizing training to improve the capacity of staff on knowledge and skills in self-assessment of training programs and schools.

Dr. Pham Hoang Giang (Faculty of Philosophy) contributed comments on quality assurance activities

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu - Deputy Director of the Center for Education Quality Assurance introduced an overview of the new points of the Ministry of Education and Training's set of standards for assessing the quality of educational institutions; announced the Plan for assessing/accrediting the quality of undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in the period of 2021-2025 of the School.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu introduces new points of the Ministry of Education and Training's set of standards for quality assessment of educational institutions.

Speaking at the Conference, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa highly appreciated the results of quality assurance work in the period 2015-2020 and in 2020 in particular. The Vice President re-emphasized that quality assessment and quality assurance help the University and its units compare with the evaluation criteria of regional and international universities, determine where they stand on the domestic and international scale, and see the strengths and limitations that need to be overcome to improve the quality of activities.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa delivered the concluding speech of the Conference.

The Vice Principal suggested that in the coming time, the leaders of the units should continue to pay attention to raising awareness of the work of quality assurance to each member; considering this a long-term, continuous process. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the process of implementing quality improvement of training programs according to the recommendations and requirements of the evaluation team. In the coming time, the School will plan to establish a School-level Quality Assurance Council.