Professor, Dr. Chu Duc Trinh, Rector of the University of Technology, said that the three pillars that the recent Central Resolutions have mentioned must be implemented synchronously in practice. Resolution No.57-NQ/TW has required that science and technology be “permeated” into every organisation, unit, and every stage of life, production, and management, not just stopping at research topics and products.
Resolution No.68-NQ/TW emphasised that if Viet Nam wants the private economy to become an important driving force, it must first build a labour market and strongly develop a business ecosystem. To achieve that goal, Viet Nam needs human resources with high capacity, knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the future job market. Resolution No.71-NQ/TW has required attention to developing education at all levels and improving the quality of human resources to have a team with enough capacity to go far, meeting the development requirements in the new period.
Accordingly, the University of Technology has implemented many strong policies to improve the quality of student training and increase the value of scientific and technological products; reform the management system, build a “digital university” model with the entire process of operation, teaching and student support on a digital platform.
The University’s digital transformation management centre is a model with a scale and level of connectivity that not many schools have achieved. In digital transformation, the Canvas LMS system is the core, the entire curriculum, syllabus, output standards, classroom activities and assessments are all deployed on this platform.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, Head of Training Department, said that the entire training programme of the university has been reviewed and designed with a higher level of difficulty than before and approaching international training standards; at the same time, output standards are designed according to the ABET framework, with a clear system of assessment indicators.
The entire programme is digitised synchronously on the Canvas LMS system to help students clearly understand their learning progress; lecturers can easily monitor the level of output standards; the Training Department has data to build timetables, open classes, and allocate lecture halls; and school leaders can monitor the teaching quality of each class and each subject, and parents can grasp the learning situation of students in real time.
Professor, Dr. Chu Duc Trinh said that the goal of bringing technology and digital transformation into the entire training process is to make the training quality transparent. An important direction that the school is implementing is to bring businesses directly into this platform so that businesses can evaluate the capacity of future workers, give feedback on quality or order human resource training to meet their needs.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Hoai Son, Head of the Department of Science, Technology and Development Cooperation, University of Technology, said that many students are passionate about research, participating in topics with teachers from the first and second years and have published articles in prestigious journals. Each international article or topic is converted into research hours and there are sanctions for teachers who do not meet KPIs.
This approach forces groups to maintain the quality of research in a substantial way. In addition, recently, the university’s students have also participated in supporting the operation of digital transformation platforms of two-level governments in a number of localities, demonstrating the spirit of learning while doing.
Resolution No.57-NQ/TW and Resolution No.71-NQ/TW have created a new framework for universities to be both centers for training highly qualified human resources and subjects of research, mastery and technology transfer.
Recently, the university has pioneered the application of a tuition-free mechanism for graduate students and doctoral students, supporting 5 million VND/month for graduate students and 7 million VND/month for doctoral students, and arranging work in the laboratory.
Cooperation activities with units, businesses and localities are focused on, in the direction of linking training with labour market needs and bringing science and technology into production practices. It is known that the university is implementing intensive training programmes with many large corporations such as Samsung Viet Nam, LG; cooperate with Samsung Electronics (the Republic of Korea) to train semiconductor master’s programmes. Some domestic enterprises such as Viettel also directly participate in training programmes.
The school is cooperating in research and technology transfer with many foreign enterprises from Japan and the ROK; domestic enterprises such as FPT, GHTK, Viettel. Revenue from cooperation activities with enterprises each year reaches tens of billions of VND.
Dr. Do Quang Loc, a member of the research team of the Department of Microelectromechanics and Microsystems, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, said that in the field of biomedicine, the team cooperates with hospitals to create high-value products, typically a handheld device to monitor respiratory function that is being tested in collaboration with a number of large hospitals to soon be used in patient care.
