Conference to vote on the nomination of Vice Principals for the 2009-2014 term

This morning, November 2, 2009, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities held a conference of key staff to vote for the nomination of Vice Rectors for the 2009-2014 term. Attending the event was Dr. Trinh Ngoc Thach - Head of the Organization and Personnel Department of VNU.

The conference listened to self-assessment reports on the work results of Associate Professor Dr. Pham Gia Lam, Associate Professor Dr. Lam Ba Nam, Associate Professor Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu in their positions as Vice Principals of the School for the 2004-2009 term. Opinions expressed at the conference unanimously assessed that the Vice Principals of the past term had completed their assigned tasks well, demonstrated dedication, a high sense of responsibility in their work, and had exemplary ethics and conduct in life.

Next, Dr. Dang Xuan Khang - Head of TCCB Department - announced the process of introducing and appointing Vice Principals for the 2009 - 2014 term and the mandatory standards for the position of Vice Principal. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh - Party Committee Secretary, Principal of the School - on behalf of the Party Committee Standing Committee and the Board of Directors introduced the expected personnel for the position of Vice Principal for the next term. Accordingly, the expected Vice Principals include 03 comrades: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu - in charge of finance, administration and facilities; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Kim Son - in charge of university training and student affairs; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim - in charge of scientific research, postgraduate training and international relations.

The conference continued to listen to the introduced personnel present reports on the expected direction and work program for the next term, and at the same time discuss and contribute ideas to the above reports.

At the end of the conference, delegates voted to approve the recommended personnel.

Some main contents in the work program of the personnel expected for the position of Vice Principal:

Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu affirmed that he will carry out the assigned work with dedication, sincerity and the highest sense of responsibility. The work program for the 2009 - 2014 term of Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu is expected to focus on the following main tasks:

+ One is to continue to monitor and implement financial revenue and expenditure transparently and in accordance with regulations, thereby contributing to effectively serving the school's operations; finding ways to increase revenue for the school.
+ Second is to continue to direct to create innovations in administrative reform.
+ Third is to upgrade the school's existing facilities and effectively manage and use the existing facilities.

See a summary of the work process of Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son said: “will try our best, with the highest sense of responsibility of a party member to contribute to the implementation of the mission of the School, contribute to maintaining the leading position of the country in training social sciences and humanities, bring the school to the level of prestigious universities in the region, effectively serve the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country and international integration.”.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son said that for the university training work of the University, the first requirement is to ensure that this work is managed in accordance with regulations at all stages, from enrollment, training organization to graduation. On the other hand, the University needs to continue to innovate its thinking about training, from the structure of occupations to training organization and training management; comprehensively and in-depthly deploy the credit-based training method; innovate teaching methods, increase learning materials, textbooks, and lectures; develop programs and train a number of dual majors, majors and minors, expand a number of majors and majors to international standards; maintain and expand international training cooperation programs; build training programs in the direction of anticipating the needs of the labor market; enhance connectivity between training levels, promote the achievements of scientific research topics and projects in training work.

Regarding non-formal training, although this is not a priority direction for development of VNU and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, this is still an important training area. The guiding principle for this type of training is: not chasing quantity, managing well the stages: enrollment, training organization and output, avoiding over-capacity for some majors and the teaching staff in those majors. The point to note for non-formal training is to consider reasonable ratios related to the number of students trained each year to meet the right needs of society; exploiting to the maximum the positive factors of credit training applied to this type of training but paying attention to its own characteristics; actively implementing distance training for many majors in the school, developing short-term training courses to grant certificates to serve social needs.

Regarding student affairs, the report emphasized two key points: continuing to standardize and modernize student management, enhancing the connection between the two departments of training and student management; enhancing the grasp of the work situation of students after graduation, maintaining close ties between alumni and the school, thereby enhancing the strength and influence of the school.

See a summary of the work process of Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son.

In his report, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Van Kim affirmed his desire to contribute to the school's efforts.further enhance the scientific position of the School, contribute to building an academic environment, train a team of young scientists with good professional qualifications and dedication to the profession.”.

The report emphasized an important task of the school in the coming time, which is to continue to develop a number of major and key research topics to contribute to solving fundamental problems for the country's development; to organize and implement a number of pioneering and cutting-edge research topics to thereby affirm the position and academic school of the school; through scientific research activities to train and foster the research capacity and professional capacity of the staff, especially young staff.

Regarding postgraduate management, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Van Kim said that it is necessary to implement the regulations correctly, organize systematically but with more humanity and professionalism. In particular, the University and units need to build a core research orientation for each major to adapt to the current level and training and research trends of the region; build and develop multi-generational research groups to facilitate the transmission of experiences, research methods as well as perfect the theoretical system and major research goals.

Regarding international relations, the University needs to realize the contents of signed documents through specific cooperation programs and strengthen relations with partners. International research cooperation projects also need to be focused on; exchange of study and scientific research for students, trainees and staff needs to be further promoted.

See a summary of the work process of Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Kim.