Nghe An Pedagogical College: Innovation, improving training quality

(Baonghean) - Nghe An Pedagogical College is one of the prestigious and quality training and fostering facilities for teachers and managers from preschool to secondary school in the province.

View of Nghe An Pedagogical College. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Nghe An Pedagogical College was established in 1959. After more than 57 years of construction and development, the school has continuously innovated in terms of content, training methods, facilities, equipment, expanded its scale, operating area and improved the quality and effectiveness of training to become a prestigious pedagogical college in and outside the province. Nghe An Pedagogical College was awarded the First, Second and Third Class Labor Medals by the President (1991, 2004, 2009), many Certificates of Merit from the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Education and Training, and Certificates of Merit from the People's Committee of Nghe An province.

Nghe An Pedagogical College is one of the educational institutions with a long tradition with the function of training and fostering teachers and managers; and training some non-pedagogical professions to meet the needs of human resource development to serve the cause of industrialization and modernization. As a prestigious "educational address" in the province, every year, the school not only provides the province but also other provinces in the country with a high-quality workforce.

The school focuses on training in the direction of linking theory with practice through regular and effective pedagogical practice activities.

To meet the demand for high-quality training, over the past time, Nghe An Pedagogical College has invested in human resources as well as spacious infrastructure, with a system of modern equipment and machinery. The school's staff currently has 2 associate professors, 6 doctors, 175 masters and 16 staff members doing research. The school has 2 campuses; modern lecture halls, equipped with computers, projectors, standard sound and lighting systems; an electronic library, a sports field, a multi-purpose gym, spacious dormitories and a system of fully equipped and synchronous practice and laboratory rooms, well serving the learning, research and application needs of staff and students. The school is increasingly diversifying its training fields, currently has 8 training faculties: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Information Technology, Foreign Languages, Primary Education, and Preschool Education.

The system of practice rooms and laboratories of Nghe An Pedagogical College is fully equipped, synchronous, serving well teaching and learning. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Currently, in response to the urgent need to innovate the general education program of the Ministry of Education and Training, the school has also prepared a team and direction to build appropriate industry codes to proactively and promptly update innovations when the program is officially issued and implemented. The school regularly conducts surveys on social needs to propose opening new industry codes and converting industry codes to suit new characteristics and situations. At the same time, the school conducts training cooperation in accordance with regulations, ensuring quality and efficiency. Strengthen training cooperation with education departments, schools in and outside the province, and businesses.

Students of the school are trained systematically, under the dedicated instruction and guidance of a team of experienced, highly qualified and professional lecturers. Along with that, they have the opportunity to study in an environment with full educational facilities to meet the needs of teaching, learning and research. The school focuses on training in the direction of linking theory with practice through regular, practical, extracurricular, creative experiential pedagogical activities... Students are regularly exposed to the pedagogical environment through practice and internship sessions (2 sessions in 3 years). With the strength of training a team of teachers with good practical skills and good discipline, the school has become an address providing quality human resources for educational institutions in and outside the province; increasingly meeting the needs of society.

The school's foreign language classroom. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

In addition to the constantly improving training quality, with the strength of short-term training and the opportunity to transfer to higher education after graduation, Nghe An Pedagogical College is increasingly attracting a large number of students. The training products of the school have been highly appreciated by employers for their professional qualifications and professional ethics. Currently, the school has more than 3,000 students from many provinces and cities across the country and nearly 150 international students studying. Among the training majors at the school, preschool teacher training is a "hot" major. Over 90% of students graduating each year have jobs after graduation. Over half a century of persistent efforts in the career of cultivating people, Nghe An Pedagogical College has trained and fostered over 60,000 teachers, staff, and educational management staff for schools from preschool to high school in Nghe An province and neighboring provinces. As the cradle of training teachers, managers, and staff from primary to secondary schools in the province, many key staff in vocational schools also grew up from this school.

The school library system is fully invested with learning materials to serve the learning and research of students. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Discussing the school's development orientation in the coming time, Associate Professor, Dr. Luu Tien Hung - Principal of Nghe An Pedagogical College said: With the goal of becoming a key, high-quality training school that meets the social needs in the province and the North Central provinces, the school has been focusing on synchronous solutions. The focus is on building a team of lecturers and managers; adjusting and developing training programs, compiling textbooks and documents to meet the requirements of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training; training teachers at preschool, primary and secondary levels according to the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Training, of the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An, especially training teachers to meet the innovation of new general education programs and textbooks. The school continues to promote scientific research activities, technology transfer, expand foreign relations and international cooperation; develop a project to establish a pedagogical practice school under the school in the coming time.

Continuing the tradition, with a proud history of achievements, the management team and teachers of Nghe An Pedagogical College today will continue to make unceasing efforts, worthy of being the cradle of training high-quality pedagogical human resources of the province.

Dinh Nguyet