At the meeting, not only did they comment on the Academy’s development orientation, leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications’ units also proposed contents they wanted to coordinate with the school such as: Training on digital transformation for officials and employees. Ministry positions; Organize training on technology application for journalism workforce; Sending graduate students and graduate students of the Academy to departments, agencies, and institutes to work on projects and dissertations; Connect the school with domestic and foreign digital technology enterprises to establish human resource training cooperation…
Assigned to monitor and direct the Academy, Deputy Minister Phan Tam suggested that the school focus on improving training quality to meet market needs and use employer evaluation as the main measure. The school also needs to promote high-quality human resources for research and development and invest in research projects of national significance.
Noting ethical issues in universities, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized that universities must always be a clean and healthy environment. Photo: Le Anh Dung
The Minister also took the time to answer the recommendations and questions of the Academy’s staff, lecturers, and students, suggesting solutions. Specifically, in response to the Academy’s leaders’ concerns about effective management solutions in the context of rapid development, the Minister noted three things: Maintaining the 2-man administrator model, moving operations to the digital environment and bringing business administration knowledge into school management.
Talking with lecturers right before the meeting, in addition to the proposal to use AI to supplement background knowledge for learners, the Minister also suggested that teachers innovate teaching activities, with suggestions for coordinating online content. with offline, by lecturers playing lecture clips and spending time interacting with students.
Minister Nguyen Manh Hung suggested that the Academy consider expanding international cooperation as a strong point of its organization. In the photo: The Minister talks to international students of the school’s IT master’s program. Photo: Le Anh Dung
Affirming that digital technology has a great impact on training, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that the Academy has a chance to break through and overcome changes in rankings. Therefore, schools need to be determined to apply new technology to transform training methods.“If we want to become a leading university in Vietnam and the region, the Academy’s only path is digital transformation,” The Minister pointed out.
The Minister also asked the Academy to consider digital human resources – the team that creates digital training platforms, digital learning materials, and online learning and exam design – as a key workforce that is as important as lecturers. Digital human resources need to account for 20 – 30% of the Academy’s personnel and the school can establish a digital technology business to first digitally transform its school and then deploy it to other training facilities. If we want to become a leading university in Vietnam and the region, the Academy’s only path is digital transformation. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung
To rise, the Academy must see the basic advantages and unique strengths of its school. The Minister analyzed that digital technology creates new jobs. Therefore, as the only university under the Ministry of State management of digital technology, the Academy needs to focus on training new digital technology careers, considering this as the school’s fundamental difference. Accordingly, for every new profession or field created by digital technology, the school will lead the country in training that field. This difference will help the school create a brand.
The Minister also pointed out specific things the Academy needs to pay attention to such as: Considering reskill (teaching new skills or upgrading existing skills to suit new requirements – PV) is a large area of the school, cooperating with businesses Vietnam digital technology to train in new technology, cooperate with a number of large domestic and foreign enterprises to form training centers for new occupations, and pay attention to innovation of training models. and new businesses, diversifying the school’s revenue sources, and focusing on building research infrastructure.
Minister Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Minister Phan Tam and officials participating in the Ministry’s working group took souvenir photos with staff, lecturers and students of the Academy. Photo: Le Anh Dung
Notably, the Academy needs to make good use of its advantage of being a school under the Ministry of Information and Communications. The Minister requested school leaders to coordinate with units of the Ministry to have a plan to bring the quality of training in the fields of the industry to the top. 1, 2. The Ministry’s Personnel and Organization Department is also directed to coordinate with the Academy to agree on a plan to bring officials and experts from units within the Ministry to participate in training and guest lectures.
Expressing gratitude for the direction and support from the Ministry of Information and Communications, Chairman of the Academy Council Tu Minh Phuong said that the school’s staff, researchers, lecturers, students and seriously and have a plan to specifically implement the instructions and comments of the leaders of the Ministry and units.
The Academy’s development strategy clearly defines the vision to become the leading university in Vietnam by 2030 in terms of scale, quality of training and scientific research; is a pioneering model in digital transformation in higher education; is in the top 100 in Asia and top 5 in ASEAN in digital technology.