Educators devise ways to make grads succeed in new WTO era
Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Education and Training
As a member of the WTO, there are lots of challenges and opportunities ahead. Viet Nam’s education system hasn’t met our social needs. Therefore, Viet Nam recently organised an international forum where educators discussed how to train our young to meet employers’ needs.
Eight countries, including our own, participated in the talks.
During the forum, we found many countries are facing the same problem of developing programmes and training for students that get them jobs after graduating.
In order to address the problem, employers and universities need to work together to develop appropriate education strategies.
Companies need to inform universities about what they need from students, and in turn, universities must change their syllabuses to meet those criteria.
We’re also trying to improve the skills of our university teachers. At present, only 13 per cent of the lecturers at our institutions have a PhD.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) is hosting a series of teaching courses in English at nine universities across the country. We hope people take this opportunity to improve their abilities in the classroom.
In the next ten years, we’d like to see 20,000 lecturers with PhDs, accounting for 20 per cent of the total. To make this happen, we are planning to send lecturers to study abroad.
In addition, our schools need to focus more on teaching the English language. Right now, English at schools is still limited. We must find a way to teach our mother tongue and English so our students can communicate easily in both languages.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Hot Topic 8 - Graduates in new WTO era
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i really wish that all the things mentioned in this message will come true in the near future. First of all, "Companies need to inform universities about what they need from students, and in turn, universities must change their syllabuses to meet those criteria." I totally agree. As a matter of fact, lots of students feel lost after graduation. it's great if students know what companies need, then they can set goals and ways to get essential skills. Secondly,i think it is essential for teachers to study abroad because i see that teachers will have chances to learn new methods and skills even the way towards students. I can see this change in HULIS where teachers are nice to students and always listen and respect our ideas. I just keep my fingers crossed that all of these will become true.
In my opinion, HULIS's learning schedule is full of general subjects which is not really meaningful to us. Meanwhile, English does not play an important role as expected. Tobe honest, it is not difficult to get a good degree only by focusing on general subjects with high marks and nomal marks in English.
Trang
Hi Trang,
I understand your feelings about the general subjects. I had the same situation when I entered this university. Now I realize that there are decisions that HULIS cannot make. Keep working hard. English is your passport to life.
Cheers,
Viet.
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