2020-2021 school year: Extensively deploying the autonomy mechanism and improving the quality of training activities

VNU President Nguyen Kim Son, VNU Vice President Pham Bao Son and Head of Training Department Nguyen Dinh Duc co-chaired the conference.

Also attending were Professors: Dao Trong Thi, former Director of VNU, Chairman of the Science and Training Council Vu Minh Giang, Chairman of the Quality Assurance Council Mai Trong Nhuan, and leaders of the Boards, member units and affiliated units.

Head of Training Department Nguyen Dinh Duc emphasized some outstanding results in areas such as enrollment; training program development; international joint training management organization; student exchange; credit recognition; accreditation and quality assessment of training programs; textbooks and learning materials; training management at junior high school, high school, university and postgraduate levels.

Training work in the 2019-2020 school year, with the theme "Continuing to promote comprehensive innovation in teaching activities, constantly improving training quality" in the direction of innovation and entrepreneurship, promoting the autonomy of teachers and the initiative of learners: under the close direction of the Party Committee, the Board of Directors, the active support of relevant functional Departments, along with the participation of training units, training work at VNU has achieved remarkable results in the past school year.

The theme of the new academic year 2020-2021 for the entire VNU is "Expanding the scale and improving the quality of doctoral and high-quality training at VNU" and "Widely implementing the autonomy mechanism of training activities in new conditions after the new decree and regulations of VNU are issued". Training work will closely follow the tasks set out by the 6th Congress of the Party Committee of VNU for the 2020-2025 term with the slogan of action "Innovation - National Responsibility - Sustainable Development" to implement synchronous solutions to innovate enrollment, strengthen the capacity of training management and organization according to the advanced university governance model, improve the quality of training from undergraduate to doctoral levels, increase the application of information technology in teaching, training, and enrollment of units at VNU and strengthen international integration, innovate professions and training organization methods to meet the requirements of the new situation, context and human resource quality requirements of the 4.0 industrial revolution.

At the conference, delegates shared the current training status of the unit, outstanding results in the past school year as well as proposed the implementation of a project to innovate university teaching activities; develop high-quality training programs; effective online training methods and solutions to attract learners, enhance the autonomy of teachers and learners in the new context...

Principal of the University of Natural Sciences Vu Hoang Linh proposed solutions to overcome the enrollment scale, create a flexible mechanism for postgraduate students of the University, and at the same time gave comments on the university enrollment plan for the 2021-2022 school year.

Vice President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities Hoang Anh Tuan said: due to the prolonged epidemic, VNU continues to study online, in addition to the adjustment plan, it is necessary to focus on improving the quality of online learning. Integrating online and direct to best support learners.

The Principal of the University of Education, Nguyen Quy Thanh, proposed that VNU should promote scientific research among students and in the direction of teachers participating with students and having budget investment for topics, thereby increasing the publication of scientific research by students. It is recommended that excellent graduates combined with 01 article published in a prestigious journal of that field should be considered for direct admission to master's studies.

Director of the Institute of Quality Assurance Nghiem Xuan Huy has proposed solutions in building tools to support teaching activities; improving the capacity of the teaching staff is carried out continuously, changing new methods and applying information technology.

Head of the International Faculty, Le Trung Thanh, said: VNU should coordinate the project for One VNU. VNU should organize many specialized conferences to attract international students; open training programs abroad; strengthen coordination with units in VNU to re-plan the training program to calculate the right direction for sufficient training funding.

Prof. Mai Trong Nhuan, Chairman of the Quality Assurance Council, emphasized: Expanding the scale of training as well as applying online teaching methods must ensure the quality of output. Strengthening the work of educational quality assessment, there must be specific quality assessment work every year, evaluating and certifying the quality of accredited training programs. In the new school year, VNU strives to be a pioneer in the country with all accredited undergraduate training programs. In the immediate future, it is necessary to focus on assessing postgraduate training programs at VNU.

Director Nguyen Kim Son requested that in the 2020-2021 school year, VNU will continue to synchronously and effectively implement the theme of the school year in the direction of widely implementing the autonomy mechanism of training activities in the new conditions after the new decree and regulations for VNU were issued. Continue to innovate teaching activities, support teachers and learners. In the development of new training programs, special attention should be paid to the quality of the program and the accreditation work, opening new training programs to adapt to the labor market, increasing postgraduate training, especially at the doctoral level.

Each unit needs to identify the task of teaching innovation with the focus of VNU being digital transformation activities. VNU will issue specific guidance documents on online training, units need to identify that this is not a seasonal activity to respond to the Covid-19 epidemic but online teaching is part of VNU's digital transformation activities. Strengthen digitalization, databases, complete 100% digitalization of library books, learning resources to support online learning.

Regarding enrollment in 2021, VNU will organize its own enrollment plan and will announce it in the near future.