The only facility that trains in Han Nom at all three levels

Scientific conference "Forty years of Training and Research on Han Nom" organized by the Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities on November 16, 2012.Attending the workshop were Associate Professor Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu - Vice Principal of the University, scientists, researchers from universities, research institutes, lecturers and students of the Faculty of Literature. The main content of the workshop focused on discussing the main groups of issues: reminiscence and feelings about the Han Nom industry; issues in Han Nom training; specific issues in Han Nom research. In the presentation "Training Han Nom researchers at postgraduate level in recent years", Associate Professor Dr. Pham Khac Manh (Director of the Han Nom Research Institute) said: the number of people interested in Han Nom heritage is not much but not small either. The Associate Professor believes that it is necessary to gradually make today's Vietnamese people understand the Han Nom heritage, and to do that, it is necessary to teach Han and Nom characters in schools. In fact, there is currently a serious shortage of experts in Han Nom studies. And to "Exploit the potential of Han Nom industry most effectively?" According to Associate Professor Dr. Tran Ngoc Vuong (Head of the Department of Medieval Vietnamese Literature, Faculty of Literature), one of the tasks that affirms the characteristics of the Han Nom major is the processing of documents. This work has accumulated to this day into a huge volume. Therefore, a large number of human resources need to work for many more years to be able to think about properly processing this source of documents. And the need to use Han Nom is not only in the orbit of literature, and of course does not stop at the level of "knowing the characters" and processing well all types of documents. Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Department of Han Nom, Faculty of Literature) mentioned the issue of training Nom characters at the university level from a new aspect, looking from a technological perspective and emphasizing the main characteristics such as: focusing on both theory and practice of Nom characters, teaching practice on original Nom documents; bringing Han Nom informatics into the training program; updating new achievements in the world to include in teaching Han Nom; International cooperation in research and training in Han Nom... The Han Nom Department of the Faculty of Literature - University of Social Sciences and Humanities, after 40 years of establishment and development, has trained and contributed to society a human resource with high Han Nom expertise. Currently, the Han Nom Department of the University is the only institution that trains Han Nom expertise at all three levels: bachelor, master, doctor. The Han Nom Department is also one of 22 undergraduate training majors of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities with its own subjects, programs, separate entrance exams and the awarding of Han Nom bachelor's degrees.