That is the result of the discussion and working session this morning (January 7, 2016), between Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa, Vice Principal of the School with representatives of the leaders of the Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Sociology, Faculty of Literature and Television and Faculty of History.
The bases for implementation
In order for the leaders of the Faculties to have a comprehensive view of the decision-making process for selecting the expected accreditation programs in the coming time, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa provided important data in proposing the expected selection of accreditation programs in the coming time.
Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa, Vice Principal of the School, spoke at the meeting.
For AUN accreditation, the selection criteria are units that have undergone peer accreditation or external assessment according to the Ministry of Education and Training's standards. In addition, the AUN standards focus on assessing human resources, so it is necessary to select faculties with high-quality human resources, said Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa.
With nearly 60 years of research and training tradition, a large staff (39 staff), high quality (13 staff with the title of Associate Professor), the Faculty of Philosophy has all the important foundations to participate in AUN accreditation activities.
In addition, the results of the evaluation implementation according to the standards of VNU, the Faculty of Philosophy has achieved good results, with many bright spots. The Faculty received high evaluations because of good feedback from students and employers. Combined with the spirit of consensus and high determination spread throughout the Faculty, it has created very important premises for the accreditation and evaluation activities.
The Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Television are also faculties with a strong staff. Currently, the Faculty of Psychology has 2 professors, 5 associate professors, 12/17 staff are PhDs, these are the leading experts in psychology in the country. The Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Television has a good staff, but the Vietnamese Studies major is still new, so there will be difficulties in building a basic database for external evaluation according to the criteria set by the Ministry of Education and Training.
Overview of the working session
The peer assessment program is expected to be applied to the high-quality bachelor's program of the Faculty of History, because according to the regulations of VNU, high-quality training programs must conduct assessment and accreditation activities after 5 years. The Faculty of Sociology also has many strengths in terms of staff, lecturers and students, so it can also implement peer assessment in the near future.
Prepare for inspection
As a direct supervisor of many accreditation programs, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa also shared many experiences with the Faculties that will conduct accreditation in the near future.
The Faculties need to determine the viewpoint that “Assessment is a periodic health check-up” right before carrying out this activity. This is an activity of great value in building and developing the units in particular and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU in general. With that spirit, all staff, lecturers, students and trainees of the Faculties need to demonstrate the spirit, solidarity and determination to complete the work on schedule.
Sharing about some common difficulties of the School, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa said: “One of the common difficulties of the School is the problem of English of teachers and students. The starting point of this problem is due to the nature of the School as a social sector, most of the staff studied in socialist countries, so their English is limited.”
Particularly for the AUN program, the assessment time is usually fixed and difficult to change, so the Faculties need to have appropriate plans and goals to avoid overcrowding, which affects quality.
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Hoa, the criteria on facilities are criteria that cannot be achieved immediately, so the Faculties also need to pay attention and calculate appropriately in the accreditation roadmap. In order to have early preparation, the Faculties should study the accreditation criteria early to make appropriate adjustments in the coming time.
A common feature is that currently, most of the training assistants of the Faculties are part-time, so the work of archiving and managing evidence is still limited. This greatly affects the verification process. Experience shows that, due to the above characteristics, many units still spend a lot of time finding evidence documents when implementing. Therefore, the Faculties need to quickly implement digitization or manage text documents effectively right now.
Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu, Deputy Director of the School's Training Quality Assurance Center, is sharing some consulting ideas for the Faculties.
After the speech and instructions of the Vice Principal, Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu, Deputy Director of the School's Training Quality Assurance Center, also provided some consulting opinions to the Faculties before conducting the assessment.
Faculties should convey the message about the accreditation activities to all lecturers, students, trainees, employers... Because this activity will be related to and connected to all of these subjects.
At the same time, the Faculties should also be consistent and adhere to the guidance documents of the criteria set they are assessing, avoiding the situation of becoming complicated when approaching many documents close to the original document.
Continuing the Vice Principal's statement on the issue of facilities, Dr. Nguyen Van Chieu also noted that the Faculties should consider the effectiveness of using facilities, through evidence demonstrating their use and exploitation.
All units are unanimous in their determination to implement.
Speaking at the meeting, representatives of the 5 Faculties expressed their consensus, readiness and determination to implement the accreditation programs in the near future.
“The experience from the recent peer review process has provided the Faculty with a lot of important information for orientation and development,” shared Dr. Pham Hoang Giang, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Dr. Pham Hoang Giang, Deputy Head of the Faculty of Philosophy shared
Although still in the planning stage, in a recent meeting, the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Philosophy proactively mentioned and informed all lecturers about the plan to implement assessment according to AUN standards in the near future.
Dr. Pham Hoang Giang said: “The Faculty has also proactively proposed plans and solutions to the Faculty’s difficulties in various aspects, such as encouraging young staff to implement a 3-step registration roadmap for foreign language lecturers (from English reference to English discussion and gradually towards English teaching); building “elite” groups in the field of report writing and mobilizing the entire Faculty in building evidence.”
“The assessment activity is also an important condition for the Faculty to look back at itself, overcome weaknesses in document storage and survey employers,” Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Van Tung, Deputy Head of the Faculty of Sociology shared.
Associate Professor Dr. Trinh Van Tung said: The Faculty of Sociology has a staff that has participated in many evaluation programs, so they have certain experiences. Therefore, in the coming time, the Faculty will try to implement the evaluation plans on schedule.
Author:Hau Temple
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