In memory of Professor Nguyen Tai Can, we send you the following story written by Associate Professor Vu Duc Nghieu on the occasion of Professor Nguyen Tai Can's eightieth birthday, printed in the Hanoi National University Newsletter in 2006 to learn more about the Professor.

Endless passion

Then the teacher appeared. Old coat, scarf wrapped around, a huge cigarette between his teeth. His first words: “Hello everyone! It’s freezing. Cold enough to make your ears hurt. Unbearably cold. Indescribably cold… Do you see the difference? That’s language!” Then he enthusiastically analyzed the differences in the utterances. First, the scarf was in a pile on the chalk-dusted table, then the coat was thrown on the back of the chair, then sweat was beading under his parted hair that was starting to turn gray. Then he suddenly changed direction: “That’s vocabulary, grammar, and today we’re going to deal with phonetics, a difficult but very interesting subject. The world began with words. The Bible says so.” Suddenly, the teacher put his hand to his neck, opened his mouth wide, stuck out his tongue, wrinkled his nose, and raised his eyebrows. He introduced us to the pronunciation department. With a few strokes on the board we understood what makes the sound of speech, the A, E, Ô, U, B, M, D… Four lessons flew by.

Implementing credit training is a major policy of VNU to improve the quality of education and move towards international integration. As one of the pioneers in this policy, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (VNU) has had 4 years of implementing credit training and achieved certain initial successes. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son - Vice Rector - shared experiences, lessons and identified new challenges.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh (Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities) was interviewed by VNU News on the occasion of the New Year 2011.

Associate Professor Nguyen Van Hong was born into a Confucian family with many generations of teachers. His hometown is in the poor but studious Thanh land - also a cultural land that has produced many talented people in literature and martial arts throughout the ages. To his students, he often confided: "My hometown is very poor, because of poverty I have to try to study and study to live.”. Once, he told his father that he did not want to continue the family teaching profession. The father looked at his son for a long time and said: “My child, society and times can change, social positions also change. Only the title of teacher will never disappear. It is a beautiful and noble profession.With just that sentence, teaching became a destiny, a career that followed him throughout his life.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Nguoi lam bao Magazine had an interview with Associate Professor, Dr. Dinh Van Huong - Head of the Faculty. Below is the full text of this interview.

On November 17, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities will hold a ceremony to celebrate its 65th anniversary. In the atmosphere of the big festival, generations of teachers expressed their love for the school with a long history and tradition, and at the same time contributed many ideas for the development of the school in the future.

The article by author Nguyen Van Hoan (printed in “100 portraits of a century of National University” - 2006) introduces the portrait of Professor Dang Thai Mai - the person who contributed to building the initial foundation of Hanoi University of Letters (now the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi).

The international conference “Sustainable development of Hanoi Capital, culture, for peace” will open this afternoon, October 7, 2010. This is an interdisciplinary scientific forum for domestic and international scientists to announce and discuss the latest results from comprehensive research projects on Hanoi. On this occasion, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Hai Ke - Head of the Department of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared his thoughts on the future development of Hanoi Studies.

ussh.edu.vn respectfully introduces the full text of the paper "4 years of transforming training methods at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities: lessons learned, opportunities and challenges" by Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son (Vice Rector), presented at the 4th Congress of the Party Committee of VNU.

2010 is a year with many outstanding events in the activities of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities: the 65th anniversary of the University's tradition and the 26th Party Congress of the University's Party Committee. This is also a year that marks many major changes in the development orientation of the University to continue to affirm its leading position in the system of Vietnamese universities, meeting the new needs of society for higher education. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh - Party Secretary, Rector of the University - discussed with reporters about the opportunities and challenges awaiting the University in the new decade.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son - Vice Principal of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - shared some information related to students' ability to study beyond the credit training (CET).