Training information technology human resources in Vietnam

Teachers/computers, Internet access time/students are at the same level as countries in the group such as Thailand, Malaysia, etc. Deploying a modern and effective education management network. Taking advantage of all financial support sources in society and internationally to reduce the cost burden for the State. The electronic libraries of schools are sketchy and not closely linked with each other as well as with national resources, so they have not been able to promote the effectiveness of common use.

- Carry out extensive reforms in formal training: satisfy the minimum factors: The program content must always be updated, closely following the requirements of the industry, the duration of specialized subjects and practice time must be sufficient to ensure that students master the technology, the language used must be English; the teaching staff must be people who have a deep understanding of technology, have a good grasp of the reality of work, and are proficient in foreign languages. In fact, the State budget for developing IT human resources is not small, if we know how to choose to invest in each IT department and then gradually expand it, it can certainly be done. It is necessary to combine the measure of sending teachers abroad for training with the cooperation of hiring teachers from research institutes, software companies and foreign experts to teach.

+ We can apply the 1+4 training model for IT students; that is, training the first year specializing in English and training an additional 4 years in professional skills. We build an IT program with a sufficient amount of foreign language (English) study time to meet the required standards (such as Toeffl standards). For the IT industry, foreign language is a compulsory subject for graduation. If you do not meet the foreign language requirements, you will not be able to graduate. In addition, there should be regulations that some IT subjects must be studied in a foreign language (English). FPT University trains software engineering in 2 foreign language groups: English and Japanese. In the first year, students study a foreign language. In the second year, students study the major in the main foreign language and study a secondary foreign language. This is a good solution.

+ Vietnam has not yet built a system of IT training quality standards. Currently in Vietnam, only Vitech, in collaboration with Japanese partners, has introduced an IT skills assessment system. Meanwhile, in countries with high levels of ICT development, standard systems are extremely rich, such as ISO,

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A little higher, America has ACM, ABET, Japan has ITSS... The education sector still does not have a national diploma system, making this work lack standardization and connectivity.

+ Training IT human resources to meet the needs of social development is increasingly urgent. Therefore, there needs to be a combination between training units and social needs, and a search for a common standard based on the perspective of equivalence in terms of degrees and qualifications compared to the world. It is time to build a system of standards to evaluate the quality of IT training such as facilities, curriculum, teacher qualifications, practice environment and quality of human resources after training, then specialized knowledge, readiness, skill level, creativity... Besides, society also needs to change old concepts about training in this field. For example, we are used to considering training programs of large companies such as Microsoft, Orace, IBM... as informal, but in reality, people with this certificate can be recruited to work in many places in the world, while the formal training system is not like that.

+ There needs to be an agency to assess the quality of IT training, there should be a national assessment center to issue certificates. In addition, there should be private centers whose criteria are announced by the State and whose activities are monitored to form a system to assess the quality of IT human resources. Vietnam should also choose foreign standards to apply. With these standards, foreign companies entering Vietnam can set up schools to train their human resources.

+ The current IT majors of universities often enroll students according to block A, but in reality, Chemistry does not directly serve the training of information technology at university level; meanwhile, students have studied IT since grade 10, but when enrolling in university, this subject is not taken into account. Schools should change and improve the exam subjects: in the university entrance exam, the subjects should be tested: Math, IT and English.

+ In the coming time, innovation in thinking about the "learner-centered" method needs to be one step ahead. Regarding duration, teaching time should be shortened.

theory on the basis that students are provided with abundant information sources before class, increasing self-study time, especially practice exercises, research experiments with the help of computers and the Internet. Increase time for discussions to exchange and answer questions between students and teachers and prestigious domestic and foreign experts on topics of IT application in their respective majors. Teachers and students all have their own email addresses, and at the same time form a working style, teaching and learning online. Encourage teachers and students to improve foreign languages to facilitate the learning process and information exchange. Regarding human resources, the application of IT in higher education is currently facing the problem of lack of human resources to implement. Except for teachers teaching IT, many teachers in other majors do not have enough skills to effectively apply IT tools to their lecture content. Training human resources to effectively exploit IT applications should be carried out in parallel with the construction of a modern network infrastructure. Training teachers and students to apply IT should be given equal importance. Students are very effective assistants to teachers in applying IT in lectures and research. Regularly organize training courses on skills in finding, selecting and processing information, especially from the Internet, for teachers and students. Have a reasonable remuneration regime for experts in developing and applying IT in universities to avoid the situation where intellectuals are attracted to other professions with higher incomes. Education management experts need to be trained in knowledge suitable for the information age. The ratio of students/1 computer in universities is still high, and the amount of time students spend on the Internet for learning purposes is still low. Except for some key national universities, the websites of other universities are mainly for introducing the school rather than being a tool for students and teachers to exchange and study online. These websites lack regular maintenance and updates from professional network administrators. Most of the internal networks are built to serve each faculty without complete connection between faculties and functional departments. Regarding content, content technology and databases serving educational management have begun to develop.

developed and has had success in recruiting, although there are still limitations. Some foreign and self-developed computer learning support software has been put into use but has not been standardized. CAD/CAM design support programs are also applied by some specialized universities. However, if considered in general for all schools, the level of IT application is still low, especially schools in the social sciences and humanities. To continue promoting the development of information content, it is necessary to quickly build multimedia electronic lectures for subjects suitable for vivid visualization, gradually moving towards all subjects having electronic lectures stored online so that students can refer to the lectures at any time. Build rich and interconnected electronic libraries at the school, national and international levels. Strengthening the implementation of scientific research topics applying IT-TT combined with self-development of software to support learning and research.

+ Building a model of lecturers to meet the speed of IT development

 Teachers must innovate their thinking about teaching, always update information to improve knowledge, master the skills of imparting knowledge through lectures, demonstrate teaching capacity according to new methods, have correct awareness of teaching innovation, and meet the requirements of using modern means.

 Teachers must master the modern information technology environment, know how to build teaching software, build laboratories, virtual practice, electronic textbooks, know how to exploit software, other information from the Internet to design electronic lectures, know how to manage and exploit telecommunications networks...

3.2.3 Training needs to be linked to business reality

+ The school needs to be proactive in bridging students and businesses, strengthening cooperation with professional organizations, providing short-term training according to orders from software companies such as testing specialists, project managers, business analysts, and system architects. The school should have a good mechanism to create a model of school-business linkage, establish research support centers at universities, and consult the needs of students.

needs of businesses to build curriculum, proactively meet and plan for businesses to participate in contributing ideas to jointly build curriculum and coordinate to build scientific research programs with practical topics for the IT industry.

+ Forming a training chain aimed at satisfying the recruitment standards of enterprises. This chain includes many training centers linked together, providing additional training in knowledge and skills that universities and colleges do not teach, such as new technology, business knowledge, and quality management processes.

+ To solve the problem of "thirst" for human resources, in the short term, businesses choose to recruit new graduates with no experience but potential and then retrain them. That is also the reason why recently, the number of businesses registering for courses at training centers for their new staff has been increasing. However, to be among the recruited and retrained candidates, IT students also need to study a specialized profession, improve their foreign languages (mainly English or if they know one of the following languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, the better) and equip themselves with prestigious degrees and international certificates to have a chance. Students need to choose the right additional study program that suits their abilities or interests and career. According to the consulting department of some training centers such as SaigonCTT, Center for Information Technology - University of Natural Sciences, Niit Academy... most students who come to register need to be consulted to choose which course is suitable for the career they want to do in the future, which course is suitable for their level...

+ Enterprises need to proactively cooperate with schools to improve labor quality and ensure the recruitment needs of enterprises. Enterprises should "place orders" with human resource training centers. From there, schools will have plans, program content and training plans to suit the requirements of use. Enterprises also need to boldly "open the door" to support schools to send students to practice in the production environment. Only then can the gap between "theory and practice" be shortened. Graduates will no longer be confused when they start participating in industrial production and enterprises will not have to spend time retraining.

+ Enterprises should invest according to the needs of IT vocational schools. Enterprises can sponsor specialized software, hardware and teaching materials. At the same time, the

Schools also need to improve their curriculum and facilities. Schools need to train key skills (updating technology and teamwork skills). Teaching should be in the direction of encouraging creativity and applying technology through open-ended questions and exercises. Project-based teaching methods should be applied: students learn and practice directly on real projects that the school is ordered to do. Enterprises should support schools in training orientation, internship environment, and introducing technology to teachers and students. Enterprises should have detailed and planned cooperation content and programs so that schools are not passive and have serious investments in receiving and ensuring the quality of interns at enterprises. Enterprises should create conditions for accepting interns from the second year; organize seminars with diverse topics such as: introducing new technology, training skills, practicing at enterprises for the best results, professional standards and ethics...

+ Enterprises need to plan for longer-term recruitment, need to have a clear definition of human resource requirements, should have memorandums of understanding between schools and enterprises, need to increase the use of online training technologies in the training and retraining process for employees. This is a type that is commonly used by the world's leading IT companies, helping IT engineers quickly update new knowledge without leaving the workplace.

+ The State should outline specific training programs. For example, a program to train 500 software engineers according to pre-determined training standards; a target to train 20,000 programmers for the Japanese market. Ho Chi Minh City will determine a list of universities or colleges that are "ordered" to train for human resource supply projects and that training program will have coordination between schools and businesses with recruitment needs.

Authorities and businesses should forecast recruitment needs early so that training facilities have time to prepare curriculum and implementation plans. Domestic and foreign businesses will make specific investments in training facilities to be more proactive in finding high-quality human resources. Businesses cannot sit still and enjoy the results of training for four to five years. Both employers and training units must have the obligation to coordinate with each other in training human resources for the IT industry.

Enterprises should coordinate with universities and training centers to form common standards for IT. Training facilities cannot sometimes train according to the needs of enterprise A, and sometimes have to follow the requirements of enterprise B (without having to follow enterprise A's standards). Employers should recruit the right person, the right job, the right qualifications.

3.2.4 Developing IT talents

- Organize many IT competitions on mass media.

- There are many forms of promotion to attract many individuals and businesses to participate in the contest.

“Nhan Tai Dat Viet” is an annual competition organized by the Khuyen Hoc and Dan Tri Newspapers in collaboration with the VDC Computing and Data Transmission Company and Vietnam Television to search for talents in the field of IT. The number of participants is still not much. The “Nhan Tai Dat Viet 2005” competition still leaves the first prize open and hopes that the following competitions will find someone worthy of that first prize.

In order to have more and more valuable PM products, there needs to be more awards to honor the outstanding faces who have contributed greatly to the development of the industry. The awards also need to be innovated, so that the awards both honor worthy products and solutions, and create conditions to support products and solutions with development potential of new, small-scale enterprises. With the organization method like many current awards, it is very difficult for new products of young enterprises to gain a foothold. Partly because their economic potential is not strong enough to participate in "competing" with larger enterprises. On the other hand, their business experience is too lacking despite their determination and enthusiasm. Therefore, there needs to be more "incubator" awards for these enterprises.

“Upgrading” the quality of awards needs attention. Currently, awards held in the South mainly honor products and solutions from the “inner region” such as the TOP IT award of the Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association, while awards held in the North often honor products from the “outer region” such as the Golden Cup of the Vietnam Computer Association. Therefore, there is a great need for a unified and national award to honor truly worthy products, demonstrating Vietnamese intelligence, contributing to the development of the country.

part makes IT products increasingly rich.

- Need to establish many funds to support IT human resource development

+ It is necessary to create favorable conditions for students to borrow money to pay tuition fees and some other expenses during their studies in order to improve their professional skills; or students of colleges, vocational high schools, and universities to borrow money to participate in IT courses that are not part of the regular university or college programs; or businesses that need training to supplement and improve the qualifications of their employees, to study IT training programs; or training units that need to borrow money to lend to students to study the training programs of that unit.

+ Loan with 0% interest rate and students will pay back gradually when working

3.2.5 Promoting the intellectual resources of overseas Vietnamese

+ With more than 300,000 overseas Vietnamese intellectuals holding various important positions in agencies, research centers, universities, companies, and the largest IT corporations in North America, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia; especially the young team trained and exposed to the latest science and technology, they are considered to be very sharp, creative, and capable of synthesizing information, proposing, consulting, and building cooperative relationships with scientific and economic establishments in the host country. In recent years, every year, more than 200 overseas Vietnamese intellectuals, economic experts, and scientists have returned to the country to teach and advise on research projects and economic projects. The potential of this human resource is very large. Knowledge and intellectual resources are the greatest assets that overseas Vietnamese can contribute to the country. The overseas Vietnamese community ranks third after overseas Chinese and overseas Indians working in high-tech industries in the US's Silicon Valley. However, the Vietnamese community in the US has only been established for more than 25 years, is still very young, the professional network is almost newly formed, and has few business relationships with the Fatherland. The government needs to establish and expand relationships with high-tech centers around the world, including Silicon Valley with the gathering of many Vietnamese people.

+ It is necessary to soon issue mechanisms, policies and measures for overseas Vietnamese to connect with each other.

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