Comments on the 12th Party Congress: Unable to calculate output, are educational products "sluggish"?

According to many experts, the reason why students do not have jobs after graduation, even many valedictorians are unemployed, is because the education sector does not plan output.

Currently, the transformation of the growth model in depth, growth based on improving quality and efficiency requires input resources such as skilled labor force. The issue of education and training has long been of concern to the Party and the State, but there are still many shortcomings and have not met the needs of economic transformation. In particular, the quality of training at university, college and postgraduate levels has been weak and has been slow to improve over the past many years.

There needs to be an effective policy for training and rewarding talented people.

The products of education are too far from real needs.

Prof. Dr. Pham Thi Tran Chau, President of the Vietnam Women Intellectuals Association, believes that the human resources of the industrialization and modernization period that our country is choosing are of a non-classical type, meaning that people are the most important factor. Human resources must be of high quality, in addition to high professional ethics, they must have trained professional qualifications, know how to apply knowledge into practice, have high professional skills and expertise, and be adaptable and creative in work.

Mr. Vu Mao, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union also stated that training human resources is essentially training a young workforce with a good knowledge base and comprehensive development. The State needs to make the best use of the potential and creativity of each individual. It is necessary to educate the young generation about love for family, love for the Fatherland, and love for compatriots.

“The above issues must be emphasized because there are still shortcomings, reflected in the low quality of education, the product of education is training people, which is far from meeting the country's requirements. Education and training do not have output planning, leading to the situation of young people graduating without jobs, and unemployment is increasing,” Mr. Vu Mao emphasized.

Ms. Ngo Thu Trang, a former student of the Faculty of Law, Hanoi National University, Hanoi City's excellent valedictorian in 2015, pointed out the current reality that some jobs in the State sector require a high seniority ratio in addition to the requirements for expertise and professionalism, which has limited the number of excellent but young individuals. Obviously, it has encouraged the old-fashioned thinking of "living long to become a veteran" or wasting a large number of talented and virtuous people contributing to some important jobs.

There needs to be an effective policy for training and rewarding talented people.

“For example, according to current regulations, the condition for being selected as a judge of a district court is to have at least 4 years of legal work experience, and at least 9 years of work experience in a provincial court, except in some cases due to need or necessity. One point that needs to be emphasized is that reducing the age must go hand in hand with organizing public and transparent exams to find the most talented people. Therefore, there needs to be a specific policy on "relaxing the age limit" and reducing the seniority requirement for some jobs in the state sector. At the same time, organizing public and transparent exams to find talented people for the country" - Ms. Trang suggested.

Ms. Trang said that although Hanoi has Resolution No. 14 of 2013 on Talent Retention Policy, which stipulates "special recruitment without examination for excellent valedictorians and some other subjects", it has not been effective in practice. "It is necessary to ask, the Resolution was issued by the Hanoi People's Council, but why are there still professions in Hanoi that require excellent valedictorians to take civil service exams? For example, the Hanoi People's Procuracy still requires civil service exams for excellent valedictorians, or the recruitment exam for civil servants at Hanoi Law University... Clearly, there is a lack of consistency between agencies here."

MSc. Ta Phuc Duong, Vietnam Economic Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, also emphasized that the use of high-quality labor resources is very important. However, talented people will not be able to develop their abilities in conditions and working environments that do not encourage and promote talented people. "Training and rewarding talented people must be indispensable parallel policies. This is clearly a bottleneck and a big challenge for transforming the growth model in the coming period."

According to Ms. Trang, the civil service exam should be abolished and the valedictorians should be recruited directly into organizations that have the need and are suitable for the valedictorians' profession. Then, during the working process, these organizations will use professional measures to evaluate more practically and accurately the qualifications of each valedictorian in many forms, including the products that the valedictorians create during their work instead of just testing in the form of questions and answers.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Khoa Son, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, also said that it is necessary to develop and implement policies for training, fostering, promoting, rewarding, and honoring the team of science and technology staff, especially talented experts with many contributions. Create a favorable environment and material conditions for science and technology staff to develop with their talents and enjoy benefits worthy of the value of their creative work. Practice democracy, respect and promote freedom of thought in research, creativity, consulting, and criticism activities of scientists./.

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