Student of Hanoi National University
The philosophy in training talents of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is to train the elite. Training at VNU not only aims to equip students with adequate knowledge, creativity, and moral qualities, but also focuses on training students in foreign languages, skills and organizational capacity, especially developing thinking and vision, giving students the courage and determination to enter life and start a business.
Talent is the lifeblood of a nation. We are living in an era where economic integration and competition are taking place rapidly and fiercely on a global scale.
Experience from the 3rd Industrial Revolution (IR) shows that the key to the remarkable growth of Asian countries in recent decades such as Japan, South Korea, China and India is because these countries have been successful in discovering, training and using talent.
Without intellectual resources to create breakthrough developments, it will be difficult for us to grasp the opportunities of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution. After all, Science and Technology (S&T) and Education and Training are the magic wands for Vietnam to take off and rise in today's era.
Therefore, discovering, training, fostering, promoting and creating conditions for talented people to develop their talents and make practical contributions to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland is an urgent requirement that cannot be delayed and is vital for the success of the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country. Universities, including VNU, have been making an important contribution to discovering, training and fostering talented people for the country.
The philosophy in training talents of VNU is to train the elite. Training at VNU not only aims to equip students with full knowledge, creativity, and moral qualities, but also focuses on training students in foreign languages, skills and organizational capacity, especially developing thinking and vision, giving students full courage and determination to enter life and start a business.
To be able to fulfill this mission, VNU always attaches importance to discovering talents right from high school level and then the years at university. VNU has built and completed high-quality training models continuously from gifted high school students, to high-quality university systems, talented science and international standards, also known as strategic tasks (international standards at VNU are available at both undergraduate and graduate levels).
Recall that, right from the first days of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, President Ho affirmed that "The country needs to be built. Construction requires talented people" and he signed a decree to find talented and virtuous people to use for the cause of nation building.
Talent is innate, but talented people, talented and virtuous people are not born naturally, but must be discovered, trained, nurtured, challenged and practiced. Therefore, discovering, training and using talented people is always a matter of special concern for our Party and State.
The first idea of opening a specialized math class A0 in Vietnam belonged to Prof. Hoang Tuy, former Head of the Mathematics Department, Hanoi University, who consulted the methods of great Soviet mathematicians such as AN Kolmogorov, PS Alexandrov, IM Gelfand,... Prof. Hoang Tuy's proposal was strongly supported by Prof. Le Van Thiem, Vice Principal; Prof. Nguy Nhu Kon Tum, Principal; by Prof. Ta Quang Buu, Minister of Universities and Vocational Training; and especially by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, who always paid attention to education, especially the training of excellent students.
On September 14, 1965, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Hung, on behalf of the Prime Minister, signed Decision No. 14-CP allowing the first specialized math class to be opened at Hanoi National University and a number of provinces and cities. Since then, specialized math, physics, information technology, chemistry and biology classes at Hanoi National University have gradually been formed and developed.
Transforming from a good student with innate potential to a good scientist, to a talent
With a strict and rigorous entrance selection process and a systematic training process, VNU students are always actively trained in thinking, methods and skills, and their knowledge is improved. The difference is that they learn from professors, leading scientists, the best, most dedicated and experienced teachers.
As a result, from 1974 to present, VNU's specialized students have won 81 gold medals, 110 silver medals and 91 bronze medals in international and regional Olympic competitions - accounting for the most international medals in the country.
The success and achievements of former specialized students, the training achievements of specialized blocks, now specialized high schools of VNU in national and international competitions over the past 60 years are the most convincing evidence of the success of the model of gifted high schools, affirming the correct, creative, and unique decision of the national talent training policy that our Party and State are proposing, implementing and are being deployed extremely successfully and effectively at VNU.
After nearly 60 years of training specialized high schools, and later since 1997 training talented science bachelors, then high quality, and then international standard programs, the prestige and brand of VNU has been honored.
Studying and researching in a modern, advanced environment is of particular importance in training and nurturing talents. The reputation of major universities in the world is often associated with the stature of scientific works and the names of great scientists.
Scientists who want to develop scientific ideas, build their own academic school or solve an interdisciplinary scientific problem must establish a group of colleagues and students (that is, must build a strong research group). And talented students and postgraduates are the important human resources of strong research groups in universities.
The process of studying and training in strong research groups at prestigious, modern universities, where there are many good professors, will train and transform a good student with innate potential into a good scientist, into a talent.
Hanoi National University continues to develop its position in international rankings
Realizing this problem, just a few years after the establishment of VNU, in 1997, facing the risk of a shortage of basic science staff in both quantity and quality, the leaders of VNU at that time had the idea of a training model for talented Bachelors of Science with the goal and approach of learning based on the experiences of excellent programs.Honor Programat universities in the United States as well as some advanced countries in the world, with 3 initial goals:
(1) building a new talent training model in Vietnam, creating a breakthrough in accessing international quality; (2) attracting talented and excellent students to study basic sciences; (3) providing basic science staff to supplement the country.
Therefore, the school has selected core subjects and subjects with teaching conditions to enhance the content compared to the regular system. A large team of scientists, teachers with high professional qualifications, enthusiasm inside and outside the school, including international experts, has been mobilized to participate in compiling the program, lectures and directly teaching. This is a special training program on basic knowledge on par with famous universities in the world.
The target of this special training program is excellent students, truly talented, therefore it cannot be extended to the general student body. The selected students are those who have achieved high scores in national competitions, participated in international Olympic teams, and selected students with high scores in entrance exams and excellent students from the provinces. These students must undergo a special professional examination and direct interview.
By the end of 2022, the talented bachelor of science program had 1,378 students receiving the talented bachelor of science degree. The talented bachelor of science program of VNU meets all the most important requirements: the quality of education is recognized by society, approaching international standards; the thinking and creative ability, and vision of learners are affirmed at domestic and foreign employers.
Leaders of organizations, businesses, and large universities at home and abroad highly appreciate the quality of graduates from this training program with their ability to teach, research, and work in many different fields and positions.
The model of training talents and high quality (CLC) of VNU was then replicated in a number of universities in Vietnam. These training systems and programs have significantly contributed to bringing 6 fields of VNU into the top 400-500 in the recent QS rankings in 2022, as well as contributing to enhancing the science and technology potential and ranking of VNU into the top 800 universities in the world.
After 30 years of construction and development since the Government issued the Decree on National Universities in 1993, it can be affirmed that: discovering, training and fostering talents is the mission and unique feature of Hanoi National University.
Author:Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Hanoi National University
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