Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc (Head of Training Department of VNU); Prof. Dr. Le Quan (Director of VNU) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai (Vice Director of VNU) chaired the conference.
Also attending the conference were Vice Presidents of VNU: Nguyen Hieu, Pham Bao Son, representatives of the Office, Party Committee Office, Chairman of the Trade Union, Secretary of the Youth Union and leaders of functional departments of VNU, representatives of leaders and experts of the Training Department, officers in charge of undergraduate and postgraduate training of member units and units under VNU, leaders of high schools.
Head of the Training Department of VNU, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc presented a summary report of the 2021-2022 academic year, emphasizing that despite being heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, training at VNU in the 2021-2022 academic year has successfully completed key tasks and achieved many excellent results in training activities.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc presented the Summary Report on Training Work for the 2021-2022 School Year
Accordingly, regarding university admissions: as of October 15, 2022, there were 12,845 candidates admitted to 143 training programs (CTDT), reaching nearly 98% of the target. Of which, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities leads with the number of admitted candidates reaching 123% of the target. Of the more than 12,000 candidates, 4,275 candidates were admitted to high-quality training programs (accounting for 33% of the university admission scale). 2022 is also the year that VNU has a rate of talented, high-quality graduates reaching over 17% of the total graduation rate in the school year - the highest ever.
With the strong determination of the entire Board of Directors, the outstanding efforts of member schools and related departments, by October 2022, VNU had sent 1,502 students of the QH.2022 course to study in Hoa Lac.
There are many innovative policies in postgraduate admissions according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. Specifically, in 2022, VNU will update the requirements for foreign language proficiency certificates and will not organize entrance exams for foreign languages as before. Along with that, it will continue to expand the implementation of master's admission methods for a number of training units.
Regarding the organization and management of international joint training, currently, VNU has 09 units implementing joint training programs with 24 training programs, including 09 bachelor's training programs and 15 master's training programs. The international joint training programs have created good opportunities for students to study in many fields such as economics, business, management, technology according to modern training methods of prestigious universities in the world.
Also in the past school year, VNU has issued many policies to attract students such as: Scholarship program for basic science majors; Scholarship for doctoral students and postdoctoral interns with excellent achievements in scientific research...
In the 2021-2022 academic year, VNU has appraised and issued 13 training programs, including 03 undergraduate training programs, 03 combined undergraduate and master's training programs, 05 master's training programs and 02 doctoral training programs; assigned the task of training 02 high-quality university training programs according to the unit's characteristics. In addition, VNU also adjusted the curriculum framework for 08 master's training programs and adjusted the name of 01 undergraduate training program. Along with that, VNU has appraised and opened 01 new training program and extended 04 training programs in cooperation with foreign partners. In particular, VNU has developed a Plan for majors and specialties at VNU for the period 2021-2025. By 2025, VNU will have a total of 572 training programs of all kinds, including 192 undergraduate programs, 225 master's programs and 155 doctoral programs.
Quality assurance work has achieved many results: in 2022, VNU has assessed the quality and quality of 18 training programs, including 8 programs according to AUN standards, 04 peer quality assessment programs, and 06 programs according to the standards of the Ministry of Education and Training.
Regarding the recruitment, training and examination of gifted students at secondary and high school levels, many successes were achieved: with 09 Gold medals, 03 Silver medals, 02 Bronze medals and 01 Certificate of Merit. In the national excellent student selection examination, high school students won 10 First prizes, 24 Second prizes, 15 Third prizes and 22 Encouragement prizes.
The report also pointed out a number of shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome in the coming school year: The conversion of high-quality training programs to standard training programs according to economic and technical norms is gradually reducing the scale of enrollment and high-quality training; basic science majors are still slow to innovate; the scale of university training is increasing rapidly while the material facilities are still limited; the average graduation rate is only 65% and foreign language proficiency is still a weakness of many students; the speed of accreditation of training programs is still slow,...
The conference agreed on a number of key tasks for the 2022-2023 academic year, namely: (1) Continuing to maintain and improve the quality of training, especially the talented, high-quality systems and the quality of doctoral training; (2) Attracting and expanding the scale of doctoral training; (3) Accelerating the quality assessment of training programs; (4) Completing and implementing the Project on Organizing High School Olympic Exams of VNU and the Project on Training Southern Students; (5) Promoting digital transformation; Completing online training models and methods associated with quality assurance; (6) Promoting digital transformation; urgently building doctoral training management software, VNU's degree and certificate verification software as well as upgrading and adjusting undergraduate and postgraduate training management software to comply with the new training regulations; (7) Innovating the structure of training program content; (8) Expand the scale and improve the quality of student training in high-quality, talented training programs, increase the scale of enrollment by using the results of competency assessment exams; (9) Deploy training and effectively implement new training regulations; (10) Review, supplement and perfect quality assurance conditions.
The delegates expressed high agreement with the contents presented in the Summary Report, and at the same time discussed and proposed a number of solutions to implement the key tasks and goals of the 2022-2023 school year.
Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan (Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities) said that the quality of enrollment last year at the University had changed dramatically through admission by many methods, especially for integration-oriented majors such as Oriental Studies, Korean Studies, etc. Regarding the foreign language output standards of students, trainees, and postgraduates, Rector Hoang Anh Tuan suggested that in addition to closely following the criteria and guidelines of the Ministry of Education and Training, it is also necessary to increase the autonomy and flexibility of units to provide maximum support for learners to graduate and defend on time, avoiding the situation where students cannot graduate because they do not have a foreign language certificate. Rector Hoang Anh Tuan also hopes that the leaders of VNU will create conditions and share with the University in opening new training programs according to the trends of the labor market.
President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities Hoang Anh Tuan speaks at the Conference
Principal of Le Trung Thanh International School emphasized the importance of attracting high-quality human resources, while promoting the creative innovation resources of each staff member, lecturer, and each job position.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Minh - Head of Training Department, University of Natural Sciences, said that while actively opening more majors according to market trends and social demands, it is also necessary to focus on basic science majors (Photo: Song Minh)
Dr. Bui Vu Anh - Deputy Director of the Institute for Education Quality Assurance shared that the Institute uses the results of training units to participate in the ranking towards sustainable ranking. Most recently, VNU was awarded the Recognition of Improvement award by QS. This is the first time a Vietnamese university has received this award. Deputy Director Bui Vu Anh emphasized that in the context of increasing enrollment targets, other quality assurance conditions such as the ratio of lecturers and facilities must also be increased and expanded. This requires the efforts and cooperation of units throughout VNU. Recently, VNU has focused on ranking by field, this direction provides more support for training and promotion of training programs.
Speaking at the conference, VNU Vice President Nguyen Hoang Hai especially reminded units to review and inspect conditions to ensure quality (human resources, facilities, etc.). At the same time, strengthen digitalization and digital transformation in training, build training management software and develop electronic lectures. Regarding financial matters, VNU Vice President requested units to seriously implement revenue and expenditure according to technical economic norms and Decree 81/2021/ND-CP of the Government on the mechanism of collecting and managing tuition fees.
VNU Vice President Nguyen Hoang Hai especially reminded units to review the conditions to ensure quality, enhance digitalization, digital transformation in training, training management software and develop electronic lectures. In addition, VNU Vice President also reminded units to strictly implement revenue and expenditure according to the Regulations on technical economic norms and Decree 81/2021/ND-CP of the Government on the mechanism of collecting and managing tuition fees.
Deputy Director Nguyen Hoang Hai discussed at the Conference
Concluding the conference, VNU President Le Quan acknowledged and commended the achievements in training in the 2021-2022 school year. Based on listening to the opinions and proposals of the delegates at the Conference, the President suggested that the next school year should focus on the following key tasks:
- Promote digital transformation and administrative reform in the training sector, first of all, complete the consultation, edit and soon issue and implement new effective training regulations; strengthen decentralization and delegation of authority; pilot the granting of autonomy to training units.
- Focus on improving the quality of enrollment and university training, ensuring conditions for ensuring training quality; increasing the scale of postgraduate and doctoral training.
- Ensure the quality of human resources, strengthen policies to attract highly qualified scientists to work at VNU. Maintain the current requirements on international publication for standardizing academic titles of lecturers and output of postgraduates, and at the same time, there should be support policies to motivate and encourage lecturers to participate in research, contributing to improving the position of VNU in prestigious world rankings.
- Some units need to have flexible solutions to solve the problem of foreign language certificates for students, paying attention to the quality and foreign language proficiency of students after graduation, not just completing the certificate to graduate.
- Be proactive and active in registering to teach first and second year students at Hoa Lac.
- Research to open new majors as well as restructure majors and specialties to ensure teaching efficiency; meet society's needs for high-quality human resources; increase courses on skills and applications.
Director Le Quan concluded the Conference emphasizing the key tasks that need to be focused on in the 2022-2023 school year (Photo: Song Minh)
