Professor needs universities to line minimum standards

Vietnamese-Japanese Prof Dang Luong Mo, adviser to the HCM town University of Technology, said one among the areas Viet Nam ought to pay specific attention to was the setting of upper standards for institution of universities.

Mo said additional and additional universities are established in Viet Nam, however no inform standards are set for the aim.

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly recently noted that there have been 409 universities and schools nationwide last year, as well as 307 that were established within the last decade alone.

Thus far, it appeared that Viet Nam's tertiary education sector has centered on amount and ignored quality, he said.

Mo said Japan has specific university institution standards that cowl several areas as well as the area for every student, facilities and therefore the quality and amount of teaching workers.

A university needs to guarantee a minimum space of ten sq. metres per student and a most ratio of eighteen students per professor, he said.

Currently, no university in Viet Nam met these 2 standards, he said, adding the quantity of professors and doctors at universities and schools in Viet Nam was too low at the instant.

These 2 standards were imperative if universities and schools in Viet Nam were to enhance and match their international counterparts, he said.

Mo said HCM town ought to take the lead and reform the network of universities and schools within the town. it is important that an advisory council comprising experienced professors, researchers and faculty directors established to oversee the method, he said.

Viet Nam ought to conjointly produce additional favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese teachers, each those operating and retired, to come back and contribute to the present task.

Vietnamese – Belgian Professor Nguyen Dang Hung, an advisor to the Vietnamese-German University's masters prog-ramme on computational mechanics, agreed that overseas Vietnamese teachers ought to be invited to show in Viet Nam's universities and schools.

To improve the standard of teaching at tertiary establishments in Viet Nam, lecturers ought to have interaction in scientific analysis and have their work recognised by international peers, Hung said.

Viet Nam ought to review salary and allowances that lecturers receive in order that they have the time and facilities to undertake sensible quality scientific analysis, he added.

And to try and do this, Vietnamese tertiary establishments ought to co-operate with analysis institutes so as to make the proper conditions, said Prof Lam Thanh My, former lecturer at the University of France.

Yesterday's workshop attracted sixty overseas Vietnamese teachers and academic consultants. it absolutely was organised by the HCM town Committee for Overseas Vietnamese and Overseas Vietnamese Science and Technology Club. — VNS