On October 6, 2025, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities held a School meeting. Principal Hoang Anh Tuan chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were the Party Secretary, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vice Principals, Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries of Party cells, Heads, Deputy Heads of units, Chief Accountant, Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine and leaders of mass organizations.
After listening to the opinions exchanged and discussed at the Conference on the following contents: (1) Report on the implementation of work in September 2025 and the Work Plan for October 2025; (2) Report on the implementation of the Principal's Conclusion at the September 2025 Conference; (3) Exchange and discussion of units and functional departments; (4) Opinions of Vice Principals; the Principal concluded:
1. Organization - Staff
1.1. Issuing Regulations on Industry Heads and assigning tasks to 30 Industry Heads: The focal point has received comments from units and will adjust, complete and issue.
1.2. Review Decision No. 5637/QD-XHNV dated December 29, 2023 on the working regulations of lecturers of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (issued based on document No. 4326/QD-VNU) to more clearly stipulate the conversion of teaching hours - actual scientific hours, in the direction of encouraging competent scientists to contribute more to quality international/national research; calculate the regulations on scientific research hours "more substantially, linked to the target product".
1.3. Develop a regulation on payment of teaching remuneration in accordance with regulations to promote the design of electronic lectures, limit the situation of teaching staff working overtime, violating the Labor Law, especially for teaching staff of common subjects for the whole VNU (according to the 2024 budget settlement, VNU reminded 57 lecturers of the School to work more than 300 hours/year).
1.4. Speed up preparations for the 80th anniversary of the tradition of the University of Letters and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
2. Training - Learner work
2.1. Assign the student affairs department to coordinate with the Youth Union and Student Association to promote consulting and care activities to help students increase awareness and skills to avoid being lured and scammed.
2.2. Carry out the enrollment work (2nd batch of 2025, VNU Olympic exam, work-study) strictly, in accordance with regulations and ensuring quality.
- The Training Department prepares a written report on the current demand and number of registrations and proposes that VNU increase the enrollment quota for the second round of 2025 for the University.
- Based on the actual schedule, the Training Department determines the time to summarize the enrollment and training work, and at the same time widely announce some information about the School's 2026 enrollment to society.
2.3. Continue to focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning, unifying and standardizing training management and graduation assessment, creating conditions for students to shorten their training progress within their capacity.
- Innovate inspection and assessment work in the spirit of empowering teachers with responsibility, reducing administrative management of inspection and assessment work.
2.4. Strengthening internationalization
- Receiving foreign students: Relevant departments (assigned tasks) coordinate closely to continue promoting the reception of students to study at the School.
- Sending students of the School to exchange abroad: Assign the Department of Training and Human Resources to be the focal point to determine the specific number and assign targets to relevant departments (Foreign Language and Training Cooperation Center, Center for Applied Linguistics and International Cooperation (Faculty of Foreign Languages, TV&VNH), Department of Training and Human Resources, Department of Science, Technology and Technology, High School for the Gifted in Social Sciences and Humanities, other relevant units), ensuring 400 students (including at least 100 students).
- Organizing classes for international professors at the School: Assign the Department of Training and Human Resources as the focal point, the units coordinate based on the actual situation to organize, ensuring a minimum of 30 classes/school year.
- Organize classes for school lecturers to teach in English: Assign the Department of Training and Human Resources as the focal point, units coordinate to organize at least 50 classes/KH2, striving to reach 100 classes/school year 2025-2026.
- Credit recognition: Flexible implementation, can replace any elective subject in the training program. Strive for at least 300 credits/students to be recognized in the 2025-2026 school year.
2.5. Promoting Technology: Propose that the Department of Training and Technology review common subjects to speed up video lectures in the modules.
2.6. Continue to perfect the centralized, formal, modern management mechanism, strengthen digital governance (note that digital diplomas and digital transcripts are consistent with the current digital transformation trend); Complete and issue documents on training, as a basis for implementation in practice.
2.7. Foreign language credits - English for Humanities 1, 2 - Specialized English: Units are requested to review the subjects in the training program in the direction of strengthening the specialized foreign languages of the units. The Department of Training and Professional Development coordinates and supports units in developing and organizing the teaching of foreign language modules for students. If necessary, the School will add foreign language credits to the training programs.
2.8. The Department of Training and Human Resources shall coordinate with the Department of Financial Planning to clarify the issue of tuition fees and notify students in writing as a basis for implementing student testing, evaluation, and examinations.
2.9. High School for the Gifted in Social Sciences and Humanities: Assign Vice Principal Dang Hong Son to direct the Department of Training and Human Resources and the High School for the Gifted in Social Sciences and Humanities to develop a Project for the development of the Gifted School (with solutions and estimates of the required investment costs), submit to the Board of Directors before October 20, 2025, and the School's Leadership team to review and approve before October 30, 2025. In particular, focus on 04 key tasks: (1) innovate the program (advanced specialized plan with a team of professors and associate professors; plan to enhance foreign languages and skills; experience and exchange abroad; participate in specialized talks by foreign professors); (2) improve the quality of the team; (3) strengthen facilities; (4) Promote international cooperation to promote the advantage of high-quality human resources of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in accordance with the spirit of Resolution 71-NQ/TW, which is "innovating the model of Specialized Schools and Gifted Schools to focus on nurturing national talents and expanding specialized classes in STEM/STEAM" (solution No. 5).
3. Science – Foreign Affairs
3.1. Science and Technology Information of the School: Assign the Science Department as the focal point, the coordinating units regularly update the School's science and technology information on the Dashboard. At the same time, review and update the scientific capacity profile (at least every 6 months), prepare for use when needed.
3.2. Publishing and organizing a Workshop on 30 training majors on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the School's establishment: Request the Department of Science, Technology and Training to review and urge units to adjust (if any) and complete the procedures for publishing, ensuring the right schedule.
3.3. Synthesize comments from units, edit, submit to the Board of Directors for review and approval to complete and promulgate the Regulations on Management of the School's Labor Union and the Regulations on Management and Use of the Science and Technology Fund.
3.4. Continue to promote the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW. The Steering Committee and Secretariat are requested to pay attention to urging and ensuring the progress of tasks.
4. Administration - Finance:Relevant departments (HCTH, TTPC&DBCL, TCCB) are requested to urgently deploy a plan to manage and check the working time of administrative staff throughout the School in addition to evaluating work performance (products, KPIs).
5. Other tasks: Implement according to the issued plan.
The Board of Directors is requested to regularly urge and direct work areas, strengthen inspection work, and report to the Principal on the implementation of plans and tasks in the assigned areas. The functional departments are requested to proactively implement and ensure time, especially for key activities.
Heads of units are requested to widely inform and implement the Principal's conclusions at monthly meetings seriously, fully and on schedule.
The Administration - General Department respectfully announces the Principal's conclusion at the October 2025 working conference for functional departments and units to know and implement.
