Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, Chairman of the School's Science and Training Council, is chairing the meeting.
The School's Scientific Training Council has 37 members, including the Board of Directors, Deans, Institute Directors, Directors of several centers and 17 invited members who are professors who have worked and cooperated with the School's scientific and training activities. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies, is the Chairman of the Council. According to tradition, the School's Scientific Council meets twice a year to advise and contribute development strategies to the School's leaders.
Also attending the working session were Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Kim Son, Permanent Deputy Director of VNU; Professor Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Head of VNU Training Department, and Dr. Nghiem Xuan Huy, Deputy Head of VNU Science and Technology Department.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh, Principal of the School delivered the opening speech of the meeting.
In his opening speech, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Minh, Rector of the University, raised many challenges that the University of Social Sciences and Humanities will have to face in the coming time. To maintain the number one position in the country in the field of social sciences and humanities, and to reach out to the world, the University's staff needs to make breakthroughs, based on the liberal factor as the foundation, promoting strong motivation for development.
The members of the training science council are the most elite intellectuals of the School. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh hopes that the teachers will discuss and give many advice and suggestions for the School in the future.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim, Vice Rector of the University, presented a report on the University's Science and Technology Plan for the period 2016-2020. Accordingly, the key research direction that the University has identified in the coming period is to research and establish theoretical issues, doctrines, viewpoints, and research methods to promote the development of social sciences and humanities in accordance with Vietnamese society. Research and clarify the path and model of Vietnam's specific development; the position and ways of responding to politics and culture of our nation in history, present and future. Research the historical, cultural, social, linguistic, ethical, and lifestyle characteristics of Vietnamese people, natural conditions, and ecological environment that affect social change, social classes, interest groups, and the Vietnamese value system, creating a basis for policies on national economic development and regional development; with priority given to ethnic minority areas.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim, Vice Principal of the School, is presenting the report on the School's Science and Technology plan for the period 2016-2020.
Research on urbanization and urban management, rural management in the urbanization process. Research on basic issues in building national standard documents on Vietnam's territorial sovereignty, with special attention to the issue of sovereignty over seas and islands and the potential and position of the marine cultural and economic environment.
Comparative research and summary of Vietnam's international behavior experience in history, in which priority is given to research and summary of relations between Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries and Asia-Pacific countries.
Regarding training, in the period 2011-2015, the development of training programs had important developments; credit-based training continued to be implemented and stabilized; training materials were focused on and strengthened.
In addition to the remarkable achievements, the organization and management of training at the School still have some limitations. Specifically, the enrollment work does not meet the allowed target; the training quality is unstable over the years.
Overview of the meeting
After analyzing the causes of the remaining limitations, the report proposed a group of solutions to improve the training quality of the School in the coming time: innovating the organization and management of training in the period of 2016-2020. Admissions should become a regular and career-oriented task. Accordingly, the training department should establish a specialized department for admissions from undergraduate to postgraduate levels.
The development of the training schedule of the training department requires close coordination with the faculties. Partially adjust the training and assessment process in the direction of increasing the initiative of the faculties and the professional role of lecturers. Teaching foreign languages to students is one of the key solutions to improve the quality of university training. Supplementary skills training activities for students will be carried out in the spirit of efficiency and savings for students. Adjust some stages in postgraduate training in the direction of shortening the implementation process and reducing administrative procedures for students...
Giving his opinion on the development orientation of the School, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Long expressed his opinion: the School's orientations are still general and not close to practical activities. In addition, the School needs to soon establish a fund for scientific research, which is a premise to promote the School's social sciences and humanities research to develop more strongly in the future.
Regarding training, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Long emphasized the issue of employment for students after graduation. The school needs to have more drastic measures in organization and training to increase job opportunities for students in the future.
To increase this opportunity, one of the decisive foundations is the quality of training, that is the view of Professor Phan Huy Le. According to him, training, in the end, if it wants to exist and develop, all activities must aim for the ultimate goal of quality.
Professor Phan Huy Le is making a recommendation to the school's leaders.
To improve quality, Professor Phan Huy Le said that the school needs to invest in its staff, especially young staff. According to him, the current situation is that the school has a large staff with high academic degrees, but there are no experts in narrow fields. The school needs to have orientations on how to make the school's staff both broad in terms of popularizing issues and deep in each field of research.
Discussing the problem of young cadres, Professor and People's Teacher Phan Huy Le suggested that the School should pay special attention to the youth. Today's society has many sources of training for young people, but the School must find a way to make the young people who enter the school and stay in the school the most elite. Overcoming the problem of young cadres who are very well trained, but do not return to the school, or return to the school for a while and then move out, causing waste.
Regarding scientific research activities, Professor Phan Huy Le said that only research can contribute to society, only research can train talented staff, meaning that if research is good, teaching can be good. Professor Phan Huy Le suggested that the School should promote research activities to all staff, lecturers, students and trainees of the School.
The entire Science and Training Council of the University and leaders of VNU took a souvenir photo
Speaking at the meeting, Permanent Deputy Director of VNU Nguyen Kim Son highly appreciated the achievements that the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has achieved in recent times.
Permanent Deputy Director Nguyen Kim Son requested that, in the process of construction, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities needs to carry out many important tasks, especially restructuring the system of training majors/specialties and scientific research to increase competitiveness in the whole system. The school needs to pay attention and invest resources to serve the teaching of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Regarding training, the School needs to innovate training management methods to ensure consistency, professionalism, and modernity and formality; at the same time, strengthen the development of high-quality training programs and propose solutions to the problem of foreign language training to meet output standards for students.
Regarding scientific research, the Permanent Vice President of VNU suggested that staff and lecturers of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities need to increase research programs and major research topics to increase international publications, along with promoting topics and cooperation projects with localities.
Also within the framework of the working session, members of the School's Science and Training Council voted in absolute approval with revisions to the Report on the Project to establish the Center for Sea and Island Research; Report on the Project to establish the Center for Research, Training and Development of Social Work; Report on the Project to establish the Department of Religious Studies under the School and Report on the Project to establish the Department of Public Policy under the Faculty of Management Science.
Some images of comments from council members at the meeting:
Author:Hoai An
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