Postgraduate Training Conference

The conference discussed the main contents:

- Summary of postgraduate training at University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

- Discuss solutions to improve the quality of postgraduate training, especially the proper implementation of the doctoral training regulations of VNU.

- Disseminate and guide the implementation of the VNU's Postgraduate Training Regulations issued on December 10, 2014.

The conference listened to Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Van Quyet (Head of Postgraduate Training Department) present a report on the overall postgraduate training activities of the 2013-2014 school year.

In recent years, with the policy of developing in the direction of a research university, promoting the connection between postgraduate training and scientific research activities, postgraduate training activities of the School have increasingly developed in both scale and quality. The increasingly improved facilities, the increasingly formal and modern training management activities, the comprehensive development of the units... are favorable conditions for this work to develop. In 2013, the School had more than 860 postgraduate students. In 2014, this number was 626 postgraduate students. The scale of postgraduate training accounts for 67% of the scale of formal training of the whole school. The number of postgraduate training programs is currently 61, and it is expected that by 2020 this number will increase to 71.

Besides positive results, SDH training also faces challenges in expanding training scale, improving coordination efficiency between management departments and training units, perfecting management software, and building a team of SDH training assistants in units.

In the 2014-2015 school year, the main objective is to focus on investing all resources to develop university training in the direction of standardization, modernization, high quality, in accordance with international standards. Some specific objectives are: maintaining the number of undergraduate and postgraduate students, focusing on quality; continuing to effectively implement projects to open planned training majors; organizing well 2 entrance exams/year; organizing for over 800 undergraduate students and 60 postgraduate students to successfully defend their thesis/docs...

At the Conference, a number of solutions to further improve the quality and effectiveness of postgraduate training activities were proposed, such as: raising awareness and responsibility of staff and students; building a mechanism to link postgraduate training with scientific research; building a management process for postgraduate students/researchers; clearly decentralizing management for all parties; increasing the use of information technology in management and training; strengthening inspection and examination work; increasing investment in facilities and learning materials, etc.