The conference to summarize 4 years of credit-based training at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities was held on December 4.The conference is an opportunity for the School to evaluate the successes and shortcomings in the 4 years of credit-based training from 2006 to 2010, and from there draw experiences to continue innovating credit-based training in the following years. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son - Vice Principal of the School - reported on the summary of the 4 years of credit-based training (2006 - 2010) of the School. The report highlighted the important results achieved after 4 years of credit-based university training: the awareness of staff and lecturers about the requirements of credit-based training has been improved, creating a fundamental change in the development of training programs, course outlines, course study guides, textbook compilation and testing - assessment, ensuring conditions to improve the ability to adapt to credit-based training and the quality of students' learning, the quality of teaching has increased gradually each year, the organization of staff has ensured the basic conditions to carry out the fundamental transformation to carry out the training transformation, student affairs have initially started to catch up with the training transformation process, and the social policy regime has been well implemented. In addition, the report also raises a series of issues for the implementation phase of credit-based training in depth from 2011 to 2015. In particular, the issue of staff, teaching methods and proactive and comprehensive control of teaching and learning quality are particularly important. Giving more autonomy to lecturers in organizing training or ensuring more autonomy for students in specifying their training programs such as: choosing subjects, choosing teachers... in the coming time. At the same time, training programs need to be further adjusted to increase compatibility, internationality and the ability to smoothly transfer with the domestic and international university training system. In addition, the report also mentions a number of specific proposals and recommendations: To create a breakthrough in training quality and success in the transformation, there must be further improvement solutions in areas such as libraries, learning materials, information technology and other material conditions. It is necessary to further increase the autonomy of lecturers and require more from lecturers, but there needs to be a suitable roadmap, gradually adapting to the improvement of facilities, learning materials, etc. Innovating the operating model of the Youth Union and Student Association. In particular, VNU needs to have harmonious and appropriate solutions between enhancing the connection and linkage between units in VNU and increasing the autonomy of training units. The conference also heard a summary report on the summary of credit-based training of affiliated faculties/departments and departments. The report showed that there were up to 166 contents mentioned in the presentations and 116 opinions expressed at the conference of the units. The most discussed contents: training program, teaching methods, textbooks, course outlines, equipment and facilities, training regulations, course management, course registration... The presentations directly discussed at the conference focused mainly on specific issues such as: "Teaching quality in credit training at the School (from the perspective of teachers and learners)" by Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Chi Hoa (Center for Education Quality Assurance). Through the survey results evaluating student lectures for lecturers in credit training, the presentations showed that the overall teaching quality over the years has improved and increased significantly. Typically, the teaching quality from the perspective of learners is shown through the average score of the whole school in 2007-2008 was 3.80, in 2008-2009 was 3.95, in 2009-2010 was 4.13. Also discussing the teaching work, Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc (Faculty of Psychology) discussed specifically the "Current status of credit training according to detailed syllabus in the Faculty of Psychology". Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc raised a number of limitations and difficulties in the issue of compiling subject syllabuses, using teaching methods, and progress according to subject duration such as: the situation of syllabus being more than actual teaching, too much knowledge being given, too many students, classrooms not meeting the requirements, insufficient learning materials, and the initiative to innovate teaching methods of lecturers is not active... Therefore, according to the professor, the change and editing of subject syllabus content needs to be updated more continuously, more concisely, giving lecturers a certain level of autonomy in providing teaching procedures, and organizing for teachers who need to improve their teaching methods. Information technology is one of the important fields that contributes to fundamentally changing the way of teaching, learning and working of the staff, lecturers and students of the School. Regarding the application of information technology in the School from the perspective of training management, MSc. Dao Minh Quan (Department of Postgraduate Training) spent a lot of time analyzing the limitations of management software and some barriers affecting the application of information technology in the School. From the perspective of the learner, student Vu Thi Huyen Trang said that studying by credit promotes the independence and dynamism of students through self-selection of subjects, self-determination of their study time... Besides, students also face some difficulties and challenges: self-study, making friends, communicating and proactively solving problems. Therefore, students' wishes are: to choose lecturers, the role of academic advisors must be shown more, facilities and learning materials must be equipped more fully, and student support work through club models must be further enhanced...
On behalf of the leaders of VNU, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Trong Quat - Vice President of VNU praised and highly appreciated the achievements of the University in 4 years of converting to credit-based training. The Vice President emphasized: The University of Social Sciences and Humanities is one of the pioneers in implementing credit-based training. Although the facilities are still limited, the University has built a solid foundation for training, drawing valuable lessons for the University in particular and VNU in general. On this occasion, the University also organized the awarding of certificates of merit from the President to 13 groups and 27 individuals who have made achievements in 4 years of converting to credit-based training.
