Việt Nam đang duy trì cách tiếp cận lạc hậu trong việc đào tạo lao động có kỹ năng cao.
Đội ngũ giảng viên doanh nghiệp – những người vẫn đang làm việc tại khối doanh nghiệp tham gia giảng dạy sinh viên – mới có vai trò chính trong việc hình thành kỹ năng thực tiễn cho người học. Ảnh: Fanpage TVET Viet Nam
“Để đảm bảo chất lượng sản phẩm, công ty sử dụng 100% lao động đã qua đào tạo. Những lao động đã qua đào tạo có kỹ năng về lý thuyết lẫn chuyên môn. Và cuối cùng là kỹ năng về nghề. Ba yếu tố này là rất cần thiết đối với doanh nghiệp” – Đó là phát biểu của ông Phan Quyết Long, Giám đốc Công ty TNHH Xây lắp Chế tạo và Cung cấp Thiết bị Công nghiệp Thành Long trong hội thảo trực tuyến “Xu hướng đào tạo nghề – Góc nhìn đa chiều’’ do Báo Kinh tế và Đô thị tổ chức.
Xuất phát từ chủ trương xã hội hóa các dịch vụ công cách đây gần 20 năm, việc các cơ sở giáo dục đại học đua nhau tăng học phí gần đây có thể khiến giáo dục đại học của Việt Nam phát triển không bền vững.
Khối ngành Y dược có học phí đắt nhất và tăng mạnh nhất trong những năm gần đây. Ảnh: Khoa Y dược, trường Đại học Y dược, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội.
Gần đây báo chí rầm rộ đưa tin mức học phí cho năm học 2024-2025 của nhiều trường đại học tăng đáng kể so với mức học phí năm học 2023-2024. Ví dụ, trường Đại học Y Dược (Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội) tăng gấp đôi học phí so với năm học trước, lên đến 55 triệu đồng/năm. Sinh viên trường ĐH Luật TP.HCM năm học 2024-2025 phải đóng học phí cao hơn năm trước từ 4 triệu đến 16,5 triệu đồng/năm tùy chương trình. Trường ĐH FPT áp dụng mức học phí cho sinh viên nhập học mới năm 2024 với mức tăng học phí từ 1,8-2 triệu đồng/học kỳ.
The policy of waiving tuition fees for five year olds has alleviated the financial burden on families and created opportunities for all children to attend school.
In a class of pre-school in Sơn La Province. Photo giaoducthoidai.vn
HÀ NỘI – As the new school year approaches, Lê Cẩm Vân and her husband in Thanh Hóa City of Thanh Hóa Province are anxiously preparing to pay the beginning-of-year school fees for their four children (two in primary school and two at five aged in pre-school class).
Vân said: “Both of us work freelance jobs with unstable incomes, so the start of each school year is very stressful, as we have to cover costs for fees, books, pens, and clothes for the children.
“This year, upon hearing that five-year-old pre-schoolers would be exempt from tuition fees, our whole family was overjoyed.
TTCT – Chương trình học tiếng Anh ở nhà trường phổ thông sẽ càng lạc lõng với sự phổ biến của AI tạo sinh nếu không chịu thay đổi để đáp ứng.
Cách dạy và thi tiếng Anh, từ không chuyên đến chuyên, ở Việt Nam vẫn như mấy chục năm trước, trong khi ta đã ở thời của trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) tạo sinh, chuyện học và thực hành ngôn ngữ đã khác rất nhiều.
Inferring advantages for students with IELTS scores in the high school admission process may breed inequality, as not everyone has the means to study and take the test, the education ministry said.
Nguyen Xuan Thanh, head of the Department of Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education and Training, said there are four groups of students eligible for high school admission without taking the entrance exams in accordance with regulations from 2014: students at ethnic minority boarding schools; students of ethnic minorities; disabled students; and students with national prizes regarding culture, art, sports and science.
Certain other student groups get bonus points during the admission process, including children of war martyrs and invalids, as well as those living in areas with dire socioeconomic circumstances.
Students prepare to take a test for high school admision in HCMC, June 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
Giáo dục của nước ta hiện nay vẫn bám vào cái triết lý “tạo ra con người mới xã hội chủ nghĩa”, dù chả biết cái con người ấy có đặc điểm gì, trong khi nền kinh tế đã chuyển sang mô hình thị trường, dựa trên kinh tế đa thành phần và hội nhập vào thế giới.
VNE – By Duong Tam January 25, 2024 | 10:01 am GMT+7
Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res
Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res The education ministry has requested foreigners teaching English at language centers in Vietnam to complete a training program, focusing on pedagogical skills.
Vu Minh Duc, head of the Teacher and Education Management Officials Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, said Tuesday that the program, which was introduced last month, aims to improve the quality of language teaching and learning in Vietnam.
Teachers at foreign language centers who must participate in this program include native English speakers, foreigners with an associate degree in English, or an associate degree along with a foreign language proficiency certificate of level 5 or higher according to the six-level foreign language competency framework used in Vietnam or equivalent.
Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images
Ireland—a nation synonymous with its abundant, verdant landscapes—is considering a nationwide referendum on the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment.
If that happens, Ireland would become the first European country to constitutionally recognize that ecosystems, similar to humans and corporations, possess legal rights. More than two-thirds of the 27 European Union countries already recognize a universal human right to a healthy environment.
In December, a legislative committee proposed that the Irish government take a series of administrative measures to draft proposed constitutional amendments recognizing that nature has inherent rights to exist, perpetuate and be restored, and that humans have a right to a clean environment and stable climate.
To take legal effect, the proposed amendments must be approved by both houses of parliament, the Dáil Éireann (the lower house) and the Seanad (the upper house), and win a majority of the popular vote.
Dr. Claudine Gay testifying before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. She has since resigned from her post as President of Harvard University.Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images
The end of Claudine Gay’s brief and turbulent presidency at Harvard has hardly put an end to controversies about elite university leadership and governance. Bill Ackman, the “activist” donor and Harvard graduate, is calling for further resignations from the Harvard Corporation, while baiting MIT’s President, Sally Kornbluth, with the Shakespearean query: “et tu?” Meanwhile, Mark Rowan, the board member who engineered the takedown of the University of Pennsylvania’s erstwhile president, Elizabeth McGill—the first of the Washington three to step down—has now been pressing his advantage in calling for major reforms of an academic nature at Penn. Philanthropy and academic freedom are colliding in ways that have the potential to undermine the true purpose and mission of our universities.
As much as these, and some other, donors have appeared to embody popular discontent with those at the pinnacle of higher education, it is easy to forget that not long ago the scandals around these universities had to do with donors who used their gifts as leverage to secure admission for their children, making visible the problematic relationship between some individual philanthropy and private interests. We all called for firewalls then but seem now to have forgotten those critiques of the relationship between private interests and higher education.
The former president of the European Commission, who played a crucial role in the construction of the European Union, died on Wednesday at age 98.
Le Monde with AFP Published on December 28, 2023, at 10:39 am (Paris)
A ‘builder’ of Europe
European Council President Charles Michel said Delors “led the transformation of the European Economic Community towards a true Union.”
“A great Frenchman and a great European, he went down in history as one of the builders of our Europe,” Michel posted on social media.
Current European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Delors had “shaped entire generations of Europeans, including mine” and was “a visionary who made our Europe stronger.”
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde highlighted Delors’s role for the single European market and “the path he laid out towards our single currency, the euro.” Europe, she said, “has lost a true statesman.”
‘Statesman with a French destiny’
French President Emmanuel Macron called his fellow countryman a “tireless creator of our Europe.” Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Macron said “his commitment, his ideals and his rectitude will always inspire us.” Delors was “a statesman with a French destiny,” Macron added.
Olivier Faure, head of the Parti Socialiste, of which Delors was a member, said, “A giant has left us.” Delors, who served as finance minister under President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, sought to “overcome tragedy by building a durable peace” after World War II ravaged Europe, Faure added.
‘Founding father’
“Modern Europe today loses its founding father,” said Enrico Letta, a former Italian prime minister who currently heads the Jacques Delors Institute created by the ex-Commission chief.
Writing on X, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani praised “a personality who showed, on the basis of Christian values, the path of strengthening Europe.”
‘What many thought impossible’
Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also hailed the EU’s “founding father”, whose “project for a stronger and more secure union remains hugely relevant for the Europe of tomorrow.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Delors “always believed in a united, open and prosperous” Europe. “He worked to make what many thought impossible a reality,” Sanchez wrote on X.
‘Visionary’
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed Delors as a “visionary” and an “architect of the EU as we know it.” Delors fought for European unity “like few others”, Scholz added in a message posted on X, urging Europeans to continue his work for the continent’s benefit.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Delors as a “visionary statesman.” “Delors transformed Europe through tireless service to the idea of a Europe whole and free,” Blinken wrote on X.
“In the UK we’ve seen suspension of students and staff from their universities. We’ve seen cancelling of events … of student activities like protests and sit-ins. We’ve seen a few cases of students that were arrested. We’ve seen students whose visas are threatened to be revoked.“
Across parts of academia, concerns are mounting that the Israel-Gaza war is having a chilling effect on academic freedom. In the second of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly exploring how the war is affecting life at universities, we speak to an Israeli legal scholar, now based in the UK, about the pressures that academics and students are facing to rein in their views about the war.https://embed.acast.com/60087127b9687759d637bade/65804f3a3c61a300185b8044
In the two months since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent Israeli war on Gaza, Neve Gordon is worried that there’s been a major clampdown on academic freedom in the US, Europe and Israel.
After teaching for 17 years in southern Israel, Gordon moved to the UK in 2016 and he’s now a professor of human rights and humanitarian law at Queen Mary University of London. His research looks at the laws of war with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and on definitions of antisemitism.
He’s also the vice-president at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and chair of its committee on academic freedom. In this role, he’s been following the impact of the conflict on free speech at universities, and recently hosted an international webinar on the issue.
In the UK we’ve seen suspension of students and staff from their universities. We’ve seen cancelling of events … of student activities like protests and sit-ins. We’ve seen a few cases of students that were arrested. We’ve seen students whose visas are threatened to be revoked.
In Israel, Gordon told us he was aware of 113 cases in Israel of students and staff who have been suspended or dismissed, and at least ten students who have been arrested for their criticism of Israel’s attack on Gaza. “We have several students sitting behind bars for Facebook or tweets that basically express empathy for the suffering of the Palestinians,” he says.
All this, Gordon says, is having a chilling effect across academia.
I’m getting phone calls from friends in different universities in different countries saying that they want to cancel their Israel-Palestine course for next semester because they’re afraid that things that they will say in class can be interpreted by students as antisemitic.
Listen to the full interview with Neve Gordon on The Conversation Weekly podcast, where you can also listen to the first of our two episodes on the way the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life at universities, focusing on what’s been happening at one American public university.
Trong bối cảnh các nguồn lực tài chính ở vùng dân tộc thiểu số rất hạn hẹp, nguồn lực tự nhiên ngày càng suy kiệt thì cơ hội vươn lên với từng cá nhân, từng gia đình, cơ hội phát triển với các vùng dân tộc thiểu số nằm ở nguồn lực con người. Tuy nhiên, trẻ em ở vùng trũng về giáo dục này khó có cơ hội vươn lên, nếu chính sách giáo dục cho vùng dân tộc thiểu số chưa thay đổi cách tiếp cận.
Tỷ lệ trẻ không đi học ở các DTTS Khmer, Mông và các dân tộc ít người khác cao gấp 4-7 lần so với trẻ thuộc nhóm người Kinh – Hoa, Tày, Thái, Mường, Nùng.Ảnh: Shutter
VNE – By Thanh Hang December 5, 2023 | 03:30 pm GMT+7
Still images from a video posted on social media show a teacher being cornered and picked at by her students at Van Phu Secondary School in Tuyen Quang Province in November 2023.
A group of seventh graders at a school in northern Vietnam locked their classroom to corner a music teacher, who they threw objects at while screaming.
The incident took place last week at Van Phu Secondary School in Tuyen Quang Province and was videotaped.
The classes not only help Jrai ethnic people in the village learn to read and write, but also contribute to raising people’s awareness and responsibility in protecting the national borders.
Many JRai students have to bring their children to literacy classes. — VNA/VNS Photo
GIA LAI — Border soldiers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai are assuming the role of teachers to eliminate illiteracy among local ethnic people.
The residential area of Suối Khôn in the border commune of Ia Mơ, Chu Prông District has 561 residents of the Jrai ethnic minority group, with most of them being very poor.
Currently, there are 71 illiterate people, accounting for 10 per cent of the area’s population.
Ia Lốp Border Guard Station opened classes to teach people and the soldiers are their teachers.
The classes not only help Jrai ethnic people in the village learn to read and write, but also contribute to raising people’s awareness and responsibility in protecting the national borders.
To get to Suối Khôn Residential Area, it takes more than two hours to travel from the city of Pleiku to Ia Pier Commune, then through a dirt road of more than ten kilometres full of mud and slush.
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Văn Thành, secretary of the station’s Party Committee, said that there were 71 Jrai ethnic people who were illiterate, of which 45 people wanted to learn.
The station’s leaders decided to open classes to teach the illiterate people.
Since earlier this year, Ia Lốp Border Guard Station has organised two four-month literacy classes for the Jrai ethnic minority with 25 students.
The teachers are soldiers including Lieutenant Colonel Vũ Văn Hoàng, who teaches math, and Captain Nguyễn Văn Luân, who teaches Vietnamese language.
The entire programme uses literacy learning materials compiled by the Ministry of Education and Training.
The classes, which take place three evenings per week, received the professional support of Hoàng Hoa Thám Primary School in neighbouring Ia Piơr Commune.
Captain Nguyễn Văn Luân said that the journey of mobilising people to come to class encountered many hardships.
“The weather conditions here are very harsh. People mainly work in agriculture and their lives are very difficult,” Luân said.
“Ethnic minorities often feel an inferiority complex and have low self-esteem so they are timid in communication,” Luân said.
“Therefore, we had to go to each household to mobilise and encourage them to boldly come to class,” the captain said.
Soldiers cum teachers of Ia Lốp Border Guard Station come directly to local residents’ houses to urge them to attend literacy classes. — VNA/VNS Photo
Getting people to come to school was difficult, and maintaining class size was even more difficult.
Lieutenant Colonel Vũ Văn Hoàng said that the classes started in the evening, but in the afternoon the teachers had to go to each house to remind people of the class.
Because the students’ ages ranged from 16 to 60, organising classes and teaching methods must be flexible, especially during the crop season. Students have to work hard during the day so many of them cannot attend classes in the evening, said Hoàng.
“So to maintain the classes, the border guard soldiers had to come to help people with farm work or take care of their children to help them feel secure and focus on their studies,” said Hoàng.
Change of life
Kpui H’Lép, 27, is one of the outstanding students. After only four months of studying, she was able to read and write fluently.
H’Lep happily said: “Before, I was illiterate, very self-conscious and shy. I was always oppressed when doing business and criticised when doing housework.”
“But now it is different. I learned how to read and calculate. I thanked the teachers for helping me and other people in the village to have a better life,” she said.
Another student, Rơ Lan H’Cúc, 26, residing in Sâm Village, Ia Piơr Commune, has a two-year-old daughter whom she has to carry to evening classes.
Rơ Lan H’Cúc often sits at the back of the class but is very diligent and serious.
“I regretted not being literate earlier. Now I have the opportunity to learn many things from teachers. The teachers not only taught us how to read and write but also gave us books, pens, babysitting and farming instructions,” Rơ Lan H’Cúc said.
“I am very grateful to the teachers,” she said.
Suối Khôn residential area was formed in 2003. Most of residents are the Jrai ethnic minority.
Since its formation until now, this residential area has not yet received basic investment in electricity, roads, and schools, and people haven’t fully benefited from social security policies.
The reason is because this land belongs to the administrative boundaries of Ia Mơ Commune but the population is managed by another commune, Ia Piơr Commune.
Hà Văn Tin, vice chairman of the People’s Committee of Ia Piơr Commune, Chu Prông District, said that the authorities of Ia Piơr and Ia Mơ communes and the people in the area hoped that the competent authorities would soon allow the establishment of Khôl Village under Ia Mơ Commune according to a project since April 2022.
This is a condition for Suối Khôn Residential Area to be better managed and develop in the future, Tin said. — VNS
Soldiers of the Ia Lốp Border Guard Station teach literary classes for JRai ethnic minority people. — VNA/VNS Photo
Sáng 26/10, Cục Kiểm ngư và Trường Cao đẳng Công nghệ kinh tế & Thủy sản tổ chức khai giảng các lớp kiểm ngư chính quy khóa I, năm học 2023 – 2024.
Đây là 2 lớp đào tạo kiểm ngư chính quy đầu tiên ở Việt Nam. Ảnh: Đinh Mười.
Trong đó, lớp cao đẳng Kiểm ngư có 20 sinh viên, thời gian đào tạo là 2,5 năm còn lớp trung cấp Kiểm ngư có 28 sinh viên với thời gian đào tạo là 2 năm. Đây là 2 lớp đào tạo nghề kiểm ngư chính quy đầu tiên trên toàn quốc.
Việc tổ chức được 2 lớp đào tạo kiểm ngư khóa I được xem là một trong những việc làm cụ thể để thực hiện nội dung trong quyết định số 81 năm 2023 của Thủ tướng Chính phủ về việc ban hành kế hoạch hành động chống khai thác hải sản bất hợp pháp, không báo cáo và không theo quy định, trong đó yêu cầu: “Khẩn trương thành lập Kiểm ngư địa phương theo quy định của Luật Thủy sản năm 2017 và Luật Tổ chức chính quyền địa phương theo thẩm quyền của tỉnh”.
CVD 