On March 14, 2013, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities had a meeting with the leaders of VNU about the school's activities and development orientations in the coming time. The meeting was chaired by Associate Professor, Dr. Phung Xuan Nha (Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, President of VNU) and Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh (Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities).Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh presented the achievements in the 2011-2012 school year, the development plan from 2011-2015 and the school's development strategy to 2020 with a vision to 2030. The Rector emphasized that the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has a long tradition and high academic level, which is continuously maintained and developed. As a member of VNU, a multidisciplinary and multi-field university with high autonomy, the school has many strengths and favorable conditions for cooperation and association in interdisciplinary training and research. The school's staff includes highly qualified teachers and scientists, capable of undertaking and completing assigned training and scientific research tasks. The school has a wide international partnership network with many universities, including large and strong universities in the world. The school has set a number of expected targets in the development plan for the coming years, such as: establishing the Faculty of Anthropology and the Institute of Policy Research in 2015; researching the establishment of the Faculty of Public Administration and the Faculty of Culture and Arts and building 8 training majors/specializations that meet international standards by 2020. It is expected that by 2020, the training scale will be 28 undergraduate training majors and 62 postgraduate training majors; proposing and implementing 10 highly interdisciplinary state-level research topics, building 4 strong research groups. Each year, 3-5 textbooks are published, including 01 English textbook. In 2020, the total number of staff is 610, including 440 lecturers, 95% of whom have a master's degree, 70% have a doctorate. In order to create favorable conditions for the University to promote its capacity and position, and complete the set planning targets, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities proposes a number of specific points: Regarding the operating mechanism, VNU grants high autonomy and self-responsibility to member units; supports the establishment of the Institute of Policy Research as a pilot model, integrating training and research. Regarding training, proposes to grant training quotas for 3 new majors: Political Science, Anthropology, and Vietnamese Studies; resolves the issue of granting official major codes for Archival Studies and Office Administration, Tourism Studies, and Library Information; supports the promotion of the construction of a number of new training majors on the basis of separating a number of majors from the Oriental Studies major such as Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Indian Studies, Thai Studies, etc.; supports the further development of basic sciences such as Philosophy, Politics, Literature, History, etc.; Early approval of a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programs, international cooperation that have been submitted in accordance with regulations; consideration of a number of inappropriate regulations related to training and fostering of staff in the NVCL training programs, foreign language output standards for graduate students and PhD students. Regarding science, VNU needs to have strong solutions to internationalize the research products of scientists such as: having at least 1 to 2 specialized journals on social sciences and humanities published in English, translating and publishing quality monographs or textbooks abroad to promote VNU's research products internationally. Regarding facilities, it is proposed to continue to exploit and further promote the effectiveness of the Center for Journalism and Communication to serve the training activities and promote the image of the School and VNU.
At the meeting, Associate Professor Dr. Phung Xuan Nha concluded a number of points, expressing VNU's strong support for the above development plans of the USSH. The Director of VNU suggested that the University firmly grasp its mission as a leading and pioneering training institution in training high-quality human resources in the fields of social sciences and humanities of the country; especially focusing on investing heavily in scientific research activities to more clearly demonstrate the research orientation in all areas of operation, in which it is necessary to focus on the strength of basic research. The University needs to have a plan to build a framework of research university criteria suitable to the characteristics of the USSH, and promote the building of strong research groups. Regarding training, VNU supports the University's proposals related to opening new training codes, including pilot training codes in the official list of codes, and supports the University in continuing to develop high-quality international joint training programs... Regarding staff work, VNU recommends that the University's human resource planning should follow research and training tasks, taking into account human resource forecasts, focusing on building a team of highly qualified staff.
