Party Committee of University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Promoting pioneering and creative strength in every action

Studentline up neatly in the hall on the 8th floor of building E to wait for your turn to receive your diploma

Training is the honor and responsibility of the scientific community.

“It is necessary to maintain and continue to improve the quality of training. This is considered the honor and responsibility of a scientific collective such as the University of Social Sciences and Humanities."Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim, Party Secretary and Vice Principal of the School emphasized.

As a leader in training high-quality human resources, the School is aware of its pioneering role in training activities to always have timely innovations following the general development trend of world education and training, but still maintains the quality criteria as a guideline for all activities.

The school has completed the conversion of the year-based training method to credit-based training at all levels. The learner's central role in the training process is affirmed, training management activities become more flexible, and connectivity between levels of education is strongly promoted.

In the first 4 courses of credit training (from 2007 to 2010), 400 students graduated early from 1 semester to 1 school year, the rate of students graduating on time was over 85%, the rate of students graduating with good or higher grades was over 90%.

“The school's credit training products are always oriented to meet the needs of the market. In addition to being equipped with knowledge and skills, students are also equipped with personal ethics, professional ethics and social responsibility. Therefore, it can be said that when graduating, students will have a comprehensive capacity, capable of meeting the requirements of the labor market..” Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Lieu, Head of Training Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared.

In addition to continuing to open new training majors according to social needs, the School's Party Committee also advocates developing more high-quality training programs, aiming to reach international standards, and expanding international joint training programs.

Dual degree training programs are built on the basis of combining existing training programs in the School or combining training programs of member universities in VNU.

The student scientific research conference is an annual activity, attracting a large number of students from the school to participate.

Currently, the School has 21 undergraduate training majors, 06 high-quality training programs, 129 dual-degree training programs. In 2014, the School completed the Project on planning majors/specialties until 2020, creating a scientific basis for the continued development of training majors and specialties in the next 5 years.

In the period 2010-2015, postgraduate training has developed strongly in both scale and quality, especially the scale of doctoral training and foreign students. Each year, the School trains about 140 PhD students, including about 20 foreign students. The proportion of postgraduate training scale to the total scale of regular training is about 37%. This ratio is gradually approaching the standard of a research university. The number of foreign postgraduate students has increased along with the expansion of many new training majors..

In the past 5 years, the School has implemented 11 more postgraduate training programs, bringing the number of postgraduate training programs of the School to 61. It is expected that by 2020, the School will have 69 postgraduate training programs.

Training quality assessment is also a field in which the School has pioneered and quickly promoted the effectiveness of this activity in training. In 2013, the School completed the assessment of the Bachelor of Linguistics program according to AUN standards and prepared to implement the assessment of Oriental Studies. This is a new and determined step to open up opportunities to achieve regional and international quality standards in the School's training activities in the near future.

Implementing the Party Committee's conclusions on innovation in university governance, administrative reform, and application of ISO standards in management activities, the University has completed phase 1 and continues to develop phase 2 of the quality management system according to ISO standards. Promoting solutions to improve and upgrade facilities.

Postgraduate student Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang, Faculty of Political Science, is presenting a paper at a scientific conference for young staff and postgraduate students of the School.

Breakthrough in building high-quality staff

Identifying high-quality, highly qualified human resources as the key factor, the strategy that determines the development of a university, the Party Committee has made an important conclusion on promoting the training and development of staff towards international standards. This conclusion has been the guideline for implementing many positive and focused policies and demonstrating strong investment in staff development activities.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, Principal of the School shared: “The Party Committee and the Board of Directors of the School always pay special attention to training and developing young cadres. The School has preferential policies from reducing service hours to exempting tuition fees, and providing financial support for master's and doctoral students who are cadres of the School."

Currently, the School has over 100 young staff studying for PhD, in the near future, there will be as many young doctors. This will be an extremely important team, contributing to building a team of highly qualified lecturers of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, contributing to the good implementation of the goal of high-quality research training.

According to statistics, the current teaching staff of the School is 358 staff, of which the number of lecturers with postgraduate qualifications accounts for 95.5%, including 185 PhDs (accounting for 54.1% of lecturers with postgraduate qualifications), 96 Professors and Associate Professors (accounting for 26.8% of the total number of lecturers), 103 lecturers are doing research and 16 lecturers are graduate students. With the above team development results, the rate of staff with postgraduate qualifications and scientific titles has exceeded the target set by the 26th Party Congress of the School, and is at the same time an impressive rate for a university. This result is also the basic foundation for the School to reap many achievements in other areas of activity.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh exchanged cooperation documents with Mr. Ko Dong HyeonJeju Provincial Department of Education (Korea)

Scientific research and international cooperation go into depth

With the goal of developing in the direction of a research university, the Party Committee of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities determined that improving the quality of scientific research activities will be the basis for improving the quality of training, the quality of staff and building the scientific reputation of the University.

The School's scientific research activities in the past term have made remarkable progress in both breadth and depth. The highlight of this activity is the effective participation in key scientific programs at the State level. The topics have provided scientific evidence for the development of socio-economic development policies, protection of border sovereignty, sea and islands...

The strong growth in the University's scientific research activities is demonstrated through impressive numbers in 5 years: 2,762 research results, including 188 international articles, 21 science and technology awards at all levels, including 03 Ho Chi Minh awards, 02 State-level awards and 16 awards at VNU and Ministry levels.

Scientific conferences are also a strength of the School, helping to create a forum for exchange between domestic and foreign scientists, exchanging research and new perceptions on many scientific and current issues. To gradually approach international standards in scientific research, in recent years the School has had many solutions to support scientific publications in international journals. From 2011, there were only 7 international publications, but by 2014, the number of international publications of the staff had reached more than 40 works.

Under the direction of the School Party Committee, the past 5 years have been the period in which the School's international cooperation activities have developed most brilliantly, not only supporting training and scientific research activities to be raised to international standards, but also contributing to affirming the School's position as a typical representative of Vietnamese higher education. Thanks to that, the School has attracted and diversified external resources for development. Notably, this activity has not only developed in scale but also really promoted its effectiveness in depth.

Among the partners, there are many prestigious "top" names in the world such as: Princeton University, San Jose University, University of Utah, University of Tokyo, Moscow State University, Nanyang University (Singapore), National Taiwan University, Shanghai University (China), University of Toulouse II, University of Paris II, Lund University (Sweden), Australian National University, Yonse University...

The success of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in the past 5 years is due to the Party Committee of the University doing well in political and ideological work, creating consensus and cohesion within the entire Party Committee. Building the University into a center of high-quality, high-level training and research has always been steadfast and is the highest goal for all policies and development plans, despite many difficulties in practice.