Mai Trong Nhuan

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University Resources for Local Prosperity

• Mai Trong Nhuan
• President, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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AGENDA

• Introduction
• Universitys Resources for Prosperity
• Case Study Vietnam National University, Hanoi
• Overview of Vietnam Higher Education System
• VNU, Situation and Strategy
• VNU for Local Prosperity
• Remarks

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Introduction

• The main characteristics of 21st century
• Globalization, ICT, Knowledge based economy,
  Sustainable development, and Prosperity for all
• More challenges opportunities for Higher
  Education
• Popularization
• Diversification
• Socialization
• Internationalization
• University plays important role in pursuing local
  and global prosperity.

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Universities role in pursuing prosperity
Wealth
Technology
Creating Transferring
Success
New knowledge
Prosperity
University
Training
Highly qualified human resource
Happiness
Culture conservation
Appreciation
Maintaining
Sustainable development
Sustainability
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• Higher education should
• Emphasize the typical and positive
  characteristics of each culture in the context of
  Asian civilization.
• Point out the limitations and negative aspects of
  each culture in particular and of Asian culture
  in general.
• Be based on modern philosophy in the framework of
  cultural and traditional values.
• Cultivate the spirit of global and local values,
  importance of diversity and harmony for students-
  future leaders.

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• Globalization and Glocalization require HE to
  train the new 7Q-student generation- future
  leaders
• IQ Intelligent Quotient
• EQ Emotional Quotient
• CQ Creative Quotient
• DQ Digital Quotient
• (Information gathering, processing, managing)
• MQ Moral Quotient, including community service
• PQ Passionate Quotient
• GQ Globalization and Glocalization Quotient
• (Global and local issues, global and local
  values, sustainable development, think
  globally, act locally)

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• UNESCO Declaration - 4 pillars of education
• Learning to

live together
do
know
be
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• Provide students - future leaders in globalized
  world and knowledge-based society
• Traditional and contemporary knowledge
• Professional skills
• To apply knowledge to solve the professional and
  social problems.
• Social skills
• Critical, logical and innovative thinking,-
  Think globally act locally
• No universal model of education exists.
• Different countries, different developmental
  strategies, priorities, and actions in globalized
  world.
• Processes outputs are locally defined to meet
  local conditions in culturally appropriate ways.

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• Provide students future leaders in globalized
  world and knowledge-based society
• Social skills (cont.)
• Problem solving, information gathering,
  processing and managing
• Management and entrepreneurship
• Adaptability
• Team working
• Life-long learning
• Communication skill
• Ethics and integrity
• Self esteem

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1. Globalization- and Glocalization-based
curriculum development and enhancement by CDIO
(Conceiving Designing Implementing
Operating) method
2. University-(industry, business, society, etc)
collaboration Real world work experience, skills
More stakeholders involvement
3. Research-, society-based training, university
science park.
4. ICT-, E-learning-based learning and teaching.
5. International cooperation for more faculty and
student mobility, exchange CAPs Scholar
program CAPs Student exchange program CAPs joint
training program CAPs joint research program CAPs
youth forum
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• Creating new knowledge, patents, new technologies
• Conducting research for predicting and solving
  global and local problems
• Finding out unique of local nature and culture to
  develop local prosperity
• Developing sustainable sciences
• Developing and conserving indigenous knowledge,
  cultures
• Transferring knowledge to community
• Making the academia-industry, business, society
  collaboration more effective

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• Lack of driving forces and resources for
  universities to persue local prosperity
• Lack of universities, professors, students
  interest in persuing local prosperity
• Long period of pure academic traditions, part
  away from societys needs.

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• Vietnam Objectives for 2010
• Double GDP of the Year 2001
• Improve significantly the Human Development Index
  (HDI)
• Improve internal capability of science and
  technology
• Improve infrastructure to support socio-economic
  development, defense, and public security
• Enhance the role of state economy

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• Overview of Vietnam Higher Education
• Year 2006 2007 statistics
• 322 higher education institutions
• 1,540,021 undergraduate students
• 852,081 women
• 11,592 minorities
• 53,518 teaching staff
• 15 years of renovation (since 1993)

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• Overview of Vietnam Higher Education (cont.)
• Achievements
• Increased enrollment
• Diversification of delivering modes
• Improved infrastructure
• Limitations
• Education is not closely associated with reality,
  society needs, weak academica- industry and
  business collaboration
• Infrastructure learning materials are slowly
  renovated
• Teachers contingent remains weak

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• Overview of Vietnam Higher Education (cont.)
• 2001 - the Government approved the 2001 2010
  Educational Development Strategy
• Consider education as national priority.
• Affirm the needs of radical and overall changes
  in education, especially higher education
• Principles
• Diversifying, standardizing
• Modernizing
• Socializing
• Building an education of practical and efficient
  nature

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU Overview
• 1ST modern university in Indochina, since 1906
• 1 of 2 national universities
• Most comprehensive research university centre
• 1st in term of number of scientific papers
  published in international journals
• Largest training research institution in
  Vietnam
• Operated by special regulations

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU Overview
• Organization
• 12 colleges, schools, training centers
• 7 research institutes and centers
• 10 service units
• Students staff
• 20,000 undergraduates
• 5,300 graduates
• 2,300 gifted pupils
• 3,000 acadmic staff
• Programs offered
• 78 undergraduate,
• 104 master and 104 PhD

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNUs Mission
• To develop into the nations leading,
  comprehensive and most prestigious institution of
  excellence for higher education, science and
  technology, gradually achieving international
  standards
• To participate in the preparation of national
  policies and strategies on socio-economic,
  development especially education, science and
  technology
• To play a key and leading role in Vietnams
  higher education system
• To serve as a focal point for international
  scientific, educational and cultural exchanges of
  the whole country

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNUs Strategy
• Develop a leading research university centre.
• Invest in and prompt elite disciplines to
  approach international standards

• Establishing international standard training
  programs in fundamental sciences, high
  technology, and key socio-economics in the
  University MISSION 1623
• Attract and keep the best people.
• Improve university management efficiency.
• The best collaboration with industry,
  business, and society.

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNUs Strategy
• Apart from improving the quality of research and
  training, we also focus on
• Educating students cultural values, including
  similarities and differences between us and the
  world.
• Encouraging students to appreciate the
  traditional values while be able to conceive and
  selectively learn the cultural quintessence of
  the humankind.

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU for local prosperity
• Training
• Develop science, technology and management
  talents, leaders in collaboration with Vietnam
  Petroleum, Danang city Government.
• Updating the existing curriculums and developing
  the new ones by CDIO method, based on TNA.
• Improving research-based training methods,
  merging research with training.

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU for local prosperity
• Training
• Enhancing the collaboration with government ,
  educational institutions, businesses, and
  industrial sectors in conducting, updating, and
  implementing curriculums, joint research
  projects, and creating real work experiments.
• Developing E-learning within the university and
  video-conferencing lectures with foreign
  universities, including Asian ones

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU for local prosperity
• Training
• Training local leaders MBA, MS, PhD in
  education management sort courses in SD,
  environment protection, public policies, IT,
• Continuing education for governmental officers,
  business and industry sector staff, workers (
  part time, evening classes)

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU for local prosperity
• 2. Research
• Create new methods and technologies to solve
  related problems of the industrialization,
  modernization of the country
• Carrying out projects concerning sustainable
  development, environmental protection (CRES),
  disasters mitigation and climate change
  adaptation, culture conservation (IVDES), finding
  out the unique and characteristics of nature and
  culture each area, region, province to develop
  local prosperity, etc.
• Establishing the scientific fundamentals for
  building up national and provincial development
  strategies, policies, etc.

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi

• VNU for local prosperity
• Services
• Educational workshop, seminar for community,
  local leaders on sustainable development,
  environmental protection, and poverty reduction
• Scientific conducting scientific guidelines
  transferring
• Community based student volunteering activities
  green summer, helping the people of rural and
  mountainous areas in education, technology
  transferring, environment protection, wise use of
  natural resources, disaster mitigation, ect.

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Case study Vietnam National University, Hanoi
VNU for local prosperity

• Enlarging the international cooperation for
  improving quality of training, research, and
  qualification of staff enhancing GQ, DQ, MQ for
  future leaders, etc.

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Remarks

• Prosperity for all driving forces, contents,
  opportunities and challenges for university
  innovation.
• University plays a key role in pursuing global
  and local prosperity
• Training and developing leaders ( long term
  vision, equipped with 7Qs, professional and
  social knowledge and skills, respect both global
  and local values as well as diversity) promoting
  prosperity.
• Creating new knowledge, new technology to predict
  and solve global and local problems for
  developing prosperity

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Remarks

• University plays a key role in pursuing global
  and local prosperity (cont.)
• Finding out the unique of local nature and
  culture
• Transferring knowledge and technologies to
  community, society.
• Conservating culture
• Maintaining sustainable development.
• Establishing close and effective linkage with
  industry, business, and society.
• VNUs resources mobilized for local prosperity.
• VNUs internationalization for better local
  prosperity.

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• Thank you for your attention!
• QA