The scientific conference with the theme “Quality culture in universities” was held on October 20. Attending were Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son - Vice Principal of the University, scientists, managers, and representatives of universities across the country.The main content of the workshop focused on discussing the main issues: quality culture and sustainable development in universities; building and developing quality culture in universities in Vietnam in general and for the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in particular; quality culture in teaching, learning and assessment. Universities in Vietnam have been building and developing quality culture. The University of Social Sciences and Humanities has also been gradually building quality culture. Speaking at the workshop, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son said: For the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, building quality culture is closely linked to ensuring the quality of teaching and learning of teachers and students. Organizing feedback from learners on the teaching activities of lecturers is an activity to enhance democracy in the University but at the same time builds a new culture of quality. On the other hand, quality culture is closely linked to ensuring the quality of faculties/majors/training programs; Building and developing a quality culture is closely linked to improving and enhancing the quality of training. At the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, developing a quality culture is a cultural change towards a broader convergence on the path of thinking and acting on quality and associated values.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Khanh Duc (University of Education) in his presentation "Developing cultural and humanistic values and future university models" presented the characteristics and development trends of modern higher education. The development of the higher education system is on the one hand affected and governed by economic, cultural and social development factors, science and technology... and on the other hand also contributes to promoting the general development trends of modern social life. In that general context, higher education in countries has been facing many great opportunities and challenges. Especially the issue of solving the relationships between scale - quality and training efficiency; between training and research, services; between needs and resources for development. Discussing the model of quality culture of higher education institutions, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Duc Ngoc (Director of the Center for Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation of Educational Quality - CAMEEQ, VIPUA) said that building a quality culture is building environments in which the components of the operating environments are the values that guide quality activities and quality development that are agreed upon and implemented by the community of that higher education institution. And according to him, the 5 environmental components of the quality culture of higher education institutions include: academic environment, social environment, humanistic environment, cultural environment and natural environment.
Many other opinions focus on emphasizing that quality culture is the thoughts, viewpoints and orientations of an individual or an organization towards the quality of teaching and learning. Building a culture is a process that requires leaders, officers, lecturers and employees in the school to think regularly about how to make teaching, learning, scientific research and other aspects of work better and better. And according to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Chi Hoa - Director of the Center for Quality Assurance (University of Social Sciences and Humanities) - quality culture also includes 3 factors: quality values, quality principles and quality behavior. Building and developing a quality culture is an objective requirement of every university that wants to reach regional and international standards. In August 2008, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities organized a workshop on "Assessment, evaluation and quality management", through which the issues raised by the workshop had a positive impact on the quality assurance work of the University.
