Professional, friendly, effective in training activities of University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Innovation and flexibility in the context of strong transformation of higher education
Speaking at the conference, Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan - Party Secretary, Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities emphasized that 2024 is a pivotal year with many good achievements of VNU-USSH. With the system being restructured and operating more and more stably, the school continues to reap many results.
In addition, the school also faces many challenges in the context of the state budget for school activities decreasing, education in general and higher education in particular are changing dramatically, VNU-USSH no longer has "monopoly space" and is facing the trend of domestic and international competition. However, this is also an opportunity for the University of Social Sciences and Humanities to promote its strengths in research and training to increase competitiveness.
Principal Hoang Anh Tuan called on all staff and lecturers of the school to join hands in the face of many difficulties. “Professional, friendly, effective” were the keywords that Principal Hoang Anh Tuan sent to the entire conference.

At the conference, Principal Hoang Anh Tuan directed that training work in 2025 needs to be innovative and flexible with the cooperation of all staff and lecturers of the school. Professor Hoang Anh Tuan emphasized 06 key contents, accordingly, 2025 is the first year that the high school graduation exam is implemented according to the 2018 General Education Program, enrollment activities need to be adjusted in an adaptive direction, not only ensuring quantity but also ensuring quality. It is necessary to continue to standardize, process, and centralize training organization work; continue to promote restructuring of training programs, integrate some training programs and open new training programs to meet social trends. Learning materials are a matter of survival, a measure of the position of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in the national education system. The school has issued a project on publishing publications for training and research, dedicating resources to developing a national-leading learning materials system. In addition, the school should apply technology to teaching and training management activities; student and alumni care needs many new points.

Reporting on the 2024 Enrollment Work and the 2025 Enrollment Orientation of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thanh Nam - Vice Chairman of the University Council, Head of Training Department said that in the 2023-2024 school year, the school has completed the adjustment of 28 undergraduate training programs, 36 master's training programs, and 30 doctoral training programs, streamlined many programs and implemented 02 common research topics for research-oriented master's programs.

The school has completed and accepted new training programs at all levels, increasing the rate of early graduation and reducing the rate of students forced to drop out. However, training activities still have some limitations, such as the rate of students graduating late, the number of courses taught in English is still low. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school will continue to focus on building new training programs, enhancing innovation in teaching methods, promoting digital transformation, and improving training quality through many innovative activities and student support, aiming to achieve an on-time graduation rate of over 50% and reduce the number of students who do not complete the program.
The enrollment work has many new points, applying online exam registration software to create favorable conditions for candidates to register for the exam; reasonable adjustments to the exam structure, exam registration plan and exam organization time have brought about clear results, both simplifying the enrollment organization and creating favorable conditions, reducing pressure for candidates and parents. The enrollment organization work is tightly organized, ensuring compliance with the regulations and plans set out with the participation and coordination between related units in the whole school. The admission results reached 109.28% compared to the announced enrollment target and balanced the training scale of each class.
Postgraduate admissions recorded an increase in the number of master's and doctoral candidates, achieving results exceeding the target. In 2025, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities aims to expand the enrollment target and improve enrollment promotion activities in the media. The school also focuses on supporting candidates with foreign language entry standards and proposes many improvements to optimize the enrollment process and meet the needs of society for postgraduate training.
Enrollment in grade 10 of the Social Sciences and Humanities High School for the Gifted in 2024 has many new features, such as innovation in enrollment methods and application of science and technology in enrollment and training activities. The timely implementation of enrollment helps the Gifted High School to quickly determine the number of students, stabilize class organization, and bring peace of mind to students and parents.

In her speech on personnel work for training in the new trend, Dr. Ngo Thi Kieu Oanh - Deputy Head of Department, in charge of the Department of Organization and Personnel said that currently the school has 79.8% of lecturers with PhD degrees, 19% of lecturers with the titles of Professor and Associate Professor.
Requirements for foreign language proficiency and English teaching skills, and international publication criteria are requiring the school's teaching staff to increasingly improve their personal capacity.
The school has promoted the training of local human resources and attracted high-quality lecturers from other training units. Attracting highly qualified lecturers, lecturers with the titles of professor and associate professor requires the cooperation of the entire school, from the department level to the faculty and school level. In addition, in 2024 - 2025 and the following stages, the school will invest more strongly so that lecturers in the school meet the standards of professor and associate professor; maintain policies and regimes to support staff and lecturers to study and improve their foreign language skills and attend international conferences.
Dr. Ngo Thi Kieu Oanh suggested that in implementing training programs, the school needs to balance human resources to maximize the advantage of high-quality human resources in addition to training and attracting. In addition, it is necessary to promote the internationalization activities of the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities to support lecturers in the school, while raising the scientific position of VNU-USSH domestically and internationally.

Reporting on the development of technical and economic norms for training programs to determine the price of training services towards autonomy in regular expenditures at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, MSc. Kim Thi Diep Ha - Head of Planning and Finance Department said that, implementing the policy of financial autonomy from 70% to less than 100%, the school has taken many measures to ensure revenue and income of staff and lecturers. In addition to revenue from training, the school promotes revenue from scientific research, services and a part from the state budget.
In the context of general difficulties of the whole industry as well as of the whole society, the state budget decreased by 11%, the school has always tried to find measures to increase revenue sources, in which the task of collecting tuition fees according to technical economic standards is the vital task of the school besides using the budget economically and effectively, ensuring the balance of revenue and expenditure, striving to increase income for staff and develop the school.
Promoting science and technology tasks in training activities
The school has organized 02 seminars for graduate students, in which the number of papers received has been increasing. The 03rd seminar is expected to be held in the near future.

According to Dr. Trinh Van Dinh - Head of the Department of Scientific Research Management, student scientific research activities are promoted, helping students have the opportunity to practice skills in writing scientific research works, fieldwork, etc. In 2024, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities won 05 VNU-level scientific research awards, including 01 first prize. Some student scientific research works will be funded for implementation in practice. In addition, the school focuses on investing in the publication of the Library, textbooks, monographs, conference proceedings, etc. and increasing the quantity along with the quality.

At the workshop, representatives of training units shared their ideas to improve the quality of training activities, such as reviewing, adjusting, and opening new training programs that have the unique identity of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and are suitable for the learning needs of society; international cooperation in training; synchronizing the admission - training - care and support process for learners from bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels; preparing conditions for accreditation and evaluation of the quality of training programs; organizing soft skills classes for students...

Dr. Pham Huy Cuong - Director of the Center for Quality Assurance, University of Social Sciences and Humanities shares training requirements to meet domestic and international accreditation requirements. Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Hong Son - Head of the Department of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared his experience in adjusting and opening new training codes to suit the learning needs of society, fulfilling the mission of leading in research and training in basic sciences of VNU-USSH. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu - Head of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, assessed that VNU-USSH has a lot of experience and potential in implementing unique, interdisciplinary training programs with its own identity. Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Thi Linh - Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared some limitations in the competition for training programs in the same major within the scale of VNU and the standardization of postgraduate training processes at VNU-USSH. Dr. Pham Hoang Giang - Head of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities proposed a number of solutions to support graduate students during their studies at the school and expand soft skills training courses for students. Dr. Nguyen Thi Nam Hoang - Deputy Head of the Faculty of Literature shares the experience of the Faculty of Literature in opening new training programs and international cooperation in training activities. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Binh - Head of the Department of Linguistics proposed the development and addition of staff and lecturers of faculties/institutes/departments.