Responsiveness of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.

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Student responses to this survey varied widely, but we summarize the key points below.

 There is a library to update information and provide more reference documents.

 Introduce jobs for students

 Create accommodation conditions for students when they graduate and work, especially students coming to work abroad.

Working in remote areas far from family. Need to have dormitories for teachers and have initial allowance for new graduates.

 The locality ensures a stable workplace, creating conditions for the full development of the capacity and strengths learned and acquired.

 Encourage postgraduate study for students with good academic performance to bring talented people back to the locality.

 Localities need to have preferential policies and subsidies for people working in remote areas to attract teachers after graduation.

 Distribute graduates according to permanent residence. In case of assignment to other localities, students should volunteer to choose.

 After graduation, students must be assigned to teach the subject they studied.

 The salary regime needs to ensure a living for teachers to be dedicated to their teaching and attached to the school.

 Need to solve scholarship policy for students like regular system with budget

 There should be professional exchanges between local students and students studying in Ho Chi Minh City, and extracurricular activities should be organized.

Question 10 : In your opinion, to solve the current shortage of teachers, should we continue to organize teacher training at the address?

Number of students responding:

a) Should continue: 574 Should not train anymore: 21

Question 11 : There may be some teacher training courses in your area, please give general comments about this type of training.

This question students answer includes the following ideas:

 This type of training is suitable for students' wishes and has created conditions for students from far away to study.

 This type of training is a timely and correct policy to meet a part of the local human resources, improve the local people's knowledge, and suit the current needs of many localities.

 Convenient for local students, students are close to their families to manage and solve difficulties.

 This type is very good, with many advantages, but also causes difficulties for students due to lack of study and reference materials, especially for students studying locally.

 The teaching method is good, however, the study time is too tight, many students do not have good learning awareness. The learning results are not high.

 For this type, current policies for students in the education sector should also be applied. It is necessary to solve the scholarship regime for good and excellent students and subsidies for students in difficult circumstances.

Question 12 : What do you understand about the policy of training teachers at the address:

This question is recognized and answered by nearly 100% of students:

 Training teachers according to local requirements is to quickly solve the shortage of teachers. Especially the shortage of teachers in remote areas.

 Training teachers at the address is to solve the problem after students graduate and return to work in their locality.

 To improve the knowledge of local people in remote areas, shortening the educational gap between rural and urban areas.

The above statistics will help us analyze some issues related to training in the coming years, for example:

- Question 2 : Helps to assess the level of love for the profession and the teaching profession of students in choosing the teaching profession, partly reflecting the phenomenon of the increasing number of candidates registering for the entrance exam to Pedagogical schools in general in the whole country and Ho Chi Minh City University of Education in particular in recent years.

- Question 4 : Help us choose an admission plan, which is a combination of taking the results of the national entrance exam immediately for admission. In cases where localities have few candidates, they will organize a separate exam for selection.

- Question 5 : Help us research the organization of training for these classes locally or in Ho Chi Minh City to suit the circumstances and characteristics of each locality.

Surveying and synthesizing data from 16 southern provinces (mostly remote provinces), we have the following statistics:

Table of graduates assigned from 1996 to 2001 and projected educational development for the next five years

(In order A, B, c.) Table number: 14

Status

Local	SL Graduate	Quantity available p. public	No Human n. case	TS High School currently available	Total Number of Classes Available	Projected demand for the next 5 years
Local	SL Graduate	Quantity available p. public	No Human n. case	TS High School currently available	Total Number of Classes Available	Number of high schools	Number of Classes	Number of teachers Need to add
1	B. Duong	148	86	62	28	488	32	625	500
2	B. Phuoc	67	50	17	17	372	24	472	563
3	B.ria-V.ship	201	158	43	19	564	24	900	480
4	B. Thuan	197	121	76	18	602	24	910	620
5	Bac Lieu	16	15	1	11*	398	14	500	350
6	Ben Tre	214	156	58	22*	710	24	820	650
7	Ca Mau	12	9	3	18	481	23	574	635
8	K. Giang	45	28	17	26	571	32	965	746
9	Lam Dong	218	155	63	35	740	42	985	288
10	Long An	284	154	130	30	723	33	798	450
11	N. Thuan	61	42	19	12*	384	15	450	620
12	Dong Nai	485	345	140	42	1305	48	1500	286
13	Dong Thap	50	35	15	21*	690	23	750	362
14	Tay Ninh	119	115	4	28	1745	33	1795	501
15	Tien Giang	224	173	51	30	936	39	1300	300
16	Tra Vinh	7	6	1	12*	420	15	524	320
	ADD:	2,348	1,648	700	369	11,129	445	13,868	7,631

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Through the statistics (Table 14), we can see that: In the 5 years from 1996 to 2001, the School only trained and provided 2,348 students to the 16 provinces mentioned above, of which only 1,648 students were assigned to the education sector, accounting for 70.2%. And in the next 5 years, these 16 provinces need about 7,631 high school teachers. It can be said that this is a fairly large number of teachers in need for the provinces of the Mekong Delta and the provinces of the Southeast. Meanwhile, every year the Ministry of Education and Training assigns a quota to Ho Chi Minh City University of Education of about 1,100 - 1,200 budgeted quotas.

Thus, to meet the demand for teachers, in the coming years, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education must continue to cooperate with the Departments of Education and Training to train formal teachers according to local needs and with local budgets .

2.1.2 . Local financial capacity.

Currently, these regular teacher training classes under contract are funded by local budgets. The budget for these classes is not large, only equal to or nearly half of the budget for regular students with the current state budget (each student of the Pedagogical University is granted 6,300,000; and the contract budget, if the training organization is located at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, is 2,500,000 VND/student/year, if the training organization is located locally, it is

3,500,000 VND/student/year). The current budget allocated by localities for training local Pedagogical Colleges is 5,500,000 VND/student/year. So it is clear that in terms of budget, training local university-level teachers is not large, not too difficult, only the real needs of each subject must be calculated to avoid waste.

Also through the discussion and response to the survey, we noted that most of the leaders of the Departments of Education and Training, as well as students, are: The facilities and equipment are still lacking, the learning is not good, there is little practice, etc., leading to the low quality of students' learning. From the above problem, we can conclude from the reality that the contract budget in the past was only enough to cover the organization of teaching, other activities will not be available. To ensure the improvement of training quality, students have many other activities to serve their studies, it is necessary to increase the budget to an average of 4,000,000 VND/student/year for students studying at the School and over 5,000,000 VND/student/year for students studying locally (1,000,000 VND/student/year for travel expenses, accommodation of school staff and lecturers to teach locally and some other local expenses).

With the above budget, we see that localities can invest in training a team of quality teachers who are closely attached to the locality, creating an important change in human resource training for the locality in the period of industrialization and modernization.

And also through some local discussions, we see that the local proposal is reasonable: "It is best to use local funds, students do not have to pay tuition. Districts and high schools with conditions can provide additional subsidies for students. Faculty,

The school has scholarships for students with good academic performance like full-time students.

...".

In short, in terms of funding, training a team of teachers according to the requirements of localities can be said to be not too difficult. The problem is how to make the training process as well as after training effective, solve the difficulties in qualified human resources for localities, improve the intellectual level of people in difficult, remote, isolated areas, etc.

The motto of using local budgets to promote local educational development is to promote the overall socio-economic development in the spirit of Resolution II of the 7th Central Committee.

2.2. The ability to respond to Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.

2.2.1. Teaching staff:

Ho Chi Minh City University of Education currently has 17 training majors including:

1) Mathematics - Information Technology

2) Physics

3) Chemistry.

4) Biology

5) Literature

6) History

7) Geography

8) English major

9) Russian Language 10) French Language 11) Chinese Language 12) Psychology - Education 13) Primary Education

14) Preschool Education 15) Physical Education 16) Political Education

17) Vietnamese language for foreigners.

To serve the management, teaching and learning work, the School has a force of 689 cadres, civil servants and employees, including: 1 People's Teacher (NGND); 18 Excellent Teachers (NGND); 12 Associate Professors; 144 Lecturers (GVC); 5 Doctors of Science; 77 Doctors; 166 Masters.

In the teaching field, there are 396 staff, of which 226 have a master's degree or higher, accounting for 57%. In addition, there are 13 PhDs and PhDs in the Scientific Research and Administration area also participating in teaching. Currently, the School has 117 staff attending training and development courses to improve their qualifications, of which 63 are PhD students and 44 are postgraduates.

The current average ratio is 12 full-time students per teaching staff. If we include the current local full-time students, this ratio reaches 21 students per teaching staff. This ratio is consistent with the forecast according to the norm method for forecasting teachers in the education development strategy from now until 2010.

With such a teaching staff, although not yet strong, it has met the current training tasks. To ensure the requirements and undertake the functions of a key Southern Pedagogical University, within the next 5 years and 10 years, Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University will focus its efforts on human resource development, considering it a strategic task to have a team of cadres and civil servants sufficient in quantity and strong in quality . The specific goal of the School is that by 2005, 75% of the teaching staff will have postgraduate qualifications and by 2010, 90% of the teaching staff will have postgraduate qualifications.

The scale of training must come from actual needs and usage needs. The school coordinates with local Departments of Education and Training to determine the number of training for each major, in each year (according to the medium-term plan). Every year, the Ministry of Education and Training assigns the school about 1,200 long-term regular training quotas with budget, in addition to assigning an additional 700 to 1,000 training quotas specifically for disadvantaged areas (training by address). With the average number of students mentioned above and the current teaching staff of the school, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education can well meet the tasks assigned by the Ministry of Education and Training and the training needs of the locality.

2.1.2. Facilities and techniques for training

a) Current status :

• Land area: Ho Chi Minh City University of Education has 5 campuses, with a total land area of 6.42 hectares. It is divided into:

- At 280 An Duong Vuong, Ward 4, District 5, is the main training facility, with an area of 3.39

- At 222 Le Van Sy, Ward 14, District 3, the second training facility, area is 0.52 ha.

- Student dormitory located at 351B Lac Long Quan, Ward 5, District 11 with an area of

area is 0.86 ha

- Thuan An - Binh Duong Center for Disabled Children, area 1.65 ha. In addition, the School also has an Educational Research Institute located at 115 Hai Ba Trung, District 1.

• About housing: Total area in use is: 48,812 m 2

• Laboratories: The school has a total of 26 laboratories to serve teaching, learning and scientific research.

• Library: Consists of two facilities, one at 280 An Duong Vuong, Ward 4, District 5 and one at 222 Le Van Sy, Ward 14, District 3, with a total area of 1,350 m2 , the reading room can serve over 400 people. Currently, the library has about 90,000 books, most of which are old books (more than 50% published before 1975), with new books, newspapers and documents added and updated every year. Since 1998, the library has been computerized, using The Lirary System software to manage books, newspapers and documents, including many modules that allow library operations to be performed by computer.

And since October 1999, the School Library has implemented a local area network (LAN), and now readers can access it from the Internet.

The library of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education is currently one of the most modern libraries, effectively serving the study and scientific research of staff and students in the school.

b) Ability :

The School's existing and future facilities and techniques ensure the School's ability to train contract teachers for localities.

2.3. Student commitment to the locality

According to the joint circular of the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Finance No. 66/1998/TTLT.BGD&DT-TC, dated December 26, 1998, guiding the implementation of Decision No. 70/1998/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on the collection and use of tuition fees at public educational and training institutions in the national education system, full-time students majoring in Pedagogy who commit to serving in the Education and Training sector after graduation are exempted from paying tuition fees.

Currently, most full-time students who are in the State budget are exempted from tuition fees (with the above commitment). For the full-time non-budget system (training system based on address), the training costs are paid by localities from the local budget according to the training contract between Ho Chi Minh City University of Education and the Departments of Education and Training.

The implementation of the commitment to serve the locality after graduation has been carried out by localities in different forms. Some Departments of Education and Training have made commitments, some Departments of Education and Training have signed contracts with students and parents of students who have passed the exam and participated in the study. With the budget of other localities, the Department of Education and Training, in addition to paying the training costs for Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, also supports other expenses such as: food, accommodation, purchase of study materials, and incentive scholarships for students with good academic results according to the current policy applied to the full-time system of the University (system with State budget).

It can be said that 100% of students in the local teacher training classes under contract understand their responsibilities. Through the multiple choice question number 12 of the survey, all answered the same: Training teachers according to the address to serve the locality with the aim of solving the current shortage of teachers in the provinces.

In addition to allocating local budgets to pay for contract classes, many Departments of Education and Training now also allocate local funds to support students studying in the full-time system of the School if these students come to the Departments of Education and Training.

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