Continuing the glorious history of education and training

(Baonghean) - Excerpt from the speech of Comrade Nguyen Thi Doan - Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice President at the opening ceremony of the 55th training course of Vinh University.

…In the process of building and developing the country, regardless of any stage of the revolution, there is a need for a team of cadres with good professional qualifications, talent and wholehearted devotion to serving the Fatherland and the people. Vinh University is one of the trusted addresses to create such cadres. Born in the fierce years of the war against American imperialism, in the "central region" area that was always bombed and destroyed by American planes, had to be evacuated dozens of times, but the cadres, teachers and students of Vinh University have overcome difficulties to complete the task of "teaching, studying, producing and being ready to fight to protect the Fatherland", always maintaining the central position as the locomotive for the block of universities in Uncle Ho's homeland and the North Central provinces, training and providing the country with tens of thousands of cadres. Among them, there are many comrades holding high positions in the State apparatus at all levels. At the same time, with the spirit of “all for the front line”, “All to defeat the American invaders”, hundreds of students and teachers of the school volunteered to go to the front line to fight and protect the Fatherland, of which 60 people sacrificed, never to return to their classrooms. The names of the teachers and brothers have been engraved in the heroic history of the nation and have made the tradition of the school famous. That heroic tradition needs to be summarized into lessons for the school to move forward.

It can be affirmed that in each stage of development, the school has achieved comprehensive results in all areas. From expanding the scale of training to improving quality, innovating teaching methods, scientific research, expanding international cooperation. Building technical facilities to increasingly meet training requirements. The success of the school is due to the focus on training a team of teachers with quality, with the qualities of teachers (good teachers make good students, the school is a united, dynamic, creative collective, and is also interested by the Ministry of Education and Training, Nghe An province, so the achievements of the school are affirmed step by step.

It can be said that, in 55 years of construction, striving and growing, generations of cadres, leaders, teachers, civil servants, employees, students and trainees of Vinh University have overcome all difficulties and hardships, and have excellently completed their assigned tasks in any circumstances. The school has built its position and brand in the system of domestic universities, gradually catching up with the training level of universities in the region and in the world. The First Class Independence Medal that the Party and State awarded to the school today is a noble reward, demonstrating the recognition of the school's contributions to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

…In the current conditions, with many opportunities and challenges in the process of international integration, the country can only develop and not fall far behind other countries in the region and the world when there is enough high-quality human resources, along with the continuous progress of science and technology - the direct production force, deciding the increase in labor productivity and social progress. That human resource can only come from training and education, in which universities and academies, including Vinh University, are important decisive factors. To carry out that task, although there are many difficulties, the school must demonstrate itself as a place with a healthy cultural environment, converging the country's precious knowledge resources in the renovation period; an environment for talents to best express and develop, a place where the personality of Vietnamese youth is perfected, clearly demonstrated through the motivation, will, learning results and efforts of students. It is also a place to screen talents, to classify and provide the best human resources for the country. Therefore, the school needs to focus on innovating teaching methods, improving the quality of teaching and learning, implementing well the principle of learning combined with practice, theory linked to practice, in order to improve the capacity of both teachers and students; improve the quality of education on Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought, the viewpoints, guidelines, policies of the Party, and the laws of the State for students, equipping them with the necessary skills of young intellectuals of the new era, so that when students graduate, they can keep up with life and work in a new environment. Improve management capacity, better manage the teaching and learning process, better manage students so that the school's student management model can be perfected and replicated in other universities.

For teachers, it is a great honor to directly participate in the process of training high-quality human resources for the country, so teachers need to be role models for students to follow not only in terms of character and qualities, but also in terms of the will to improve in their profession through improving the quality of teaching, scientific research, creativity in professional work, and affection for colleagues. For students, especially poor students and students with especially difficult circumstances, teachers need to be role models for students to look up to every day. Therefore, teachers need to constantly practice, innovate teaching methods, improve professional qualifications, foreign languages, information technology... to keep up with the constant innovation of science and technology.

For students, it has been a long journey of 12 years of general education. Now, your luggage is quite complete to prepare for a new stage. This is the stage that determines your life. First of all, you are young people of the Ho Chi Minh era, the pillars of the country, so you need to determine your role, position, and responsibility. Entering the university gate, your life has turned to a new page. Write something on these pages to make your life meaningful, so that your parents, friends and children when reading it later will feel honored and proud of you. Experience shows that, in 4 years of university, many students have overcome difficulties to become masters of themselves in life, knowing how to take advantage of time to study and strive. Therefore, when graduating, they enter their new life firmly and confidently. However, many of you have written a new page of your life with bad marks, violations of rules, regulations, and even violations of the State's laws. I hope that, with the glorious tradition of the beloved homeland of Uncle Ho and Vinh University, which has been established and developed for 55 years, you will try to quickly approach the learning and research methods in a new environment, and integrate into a new community. A community that contains the country's talents, a community with a high level of education. Let's build that community to be strong and develop steadily!

You need to arrange your time reasonably, avoid the idea of ​​relaxing after hard exams. Time is very fair, victory will belong to those who know how to manage it scientifically. There are many challenges ahead for you: The number of students graduating is increasing, job positions require increasingly high quality. Therefore, the competition for a desired job is extremely difficult, not to mention the living environment of society with many temptations, the trend of deep international integration will greatly affect students. All of that will be pressure for you. There are many students with difficult family circumstances. But I hope that you will soon show your intelligence, filter the muddy to achieve your dreams, so that the pages written about your life shine along with the brilliant history of Vinh University. Along with your efforts, teachers and school staff, please help you succeed.

(*) Title by Nghe An Newspaper