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The Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 01/2024/TT-BGDDT regulating the Standards of Higher Education Institutions on February 5, 2024, including 6 standards and 20 criteria. These are the minimum requirements for quality assurance conditions and performance indicators of a higher education institution for the purpose of planning and arranging the network of higher education institutions; assessing and monitoring quality assurance conditions and the implementation of accountability of higher education institutions according to the provisions of law.

In particular, criterion 2.3 on the proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees stipulates: “Not lower than 20% and from 2030 not lower than 30% for higher education institutions that do not train doctoral degrees; not lower than 5% and from 2030 not lower than 10% for schools that train specialized fields that do not train doctoral degrees.

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The proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees is not lower than 40% and from 2030 not lower than 50% for higher education institutions with doctoral training; not lower than 10% and from 2030 not lower than 15% for specialized training schools with doctoral training”.

However, currently, according to some universities that are training at the undergraduate and master's levels and have a roadmap to open doctoral training, ensuring the ratio of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees according to standards is still a big challenge.

The ratio of lecturers with doctoral degrees is still a challenge for educational institutions.

Talking to reporters of Vietnam Education Electronic Magazine, Dr. Phan Thi Viet Nam – Vice Principal of Hoa Sen University said that currently, the educational institution is training at the university and master's levels, with a training roadmap to the doctoral level.

Since 2015, the school's master's training programs have been built and recognized as meeting standards as assessed by AUN-QA, the quality assurance organization of the Southeast Asian university network.

It is expected that in the development roadmap to 2030, Hoa Sen University will develop a doctoral training program for some majors such as Business Administration. Therefore, according to Dr. Phan Thi Viet Nam, the thorough preparation of highly qualified lecturers such as professors, associate professors, and doctors is very necessary and appropriate for the sustainable development of educational institutions.

Dr. Phan Thi Viet Nam – Vice Principal of Hoa Sen University. Photo: HSU.

However, the ratio of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees according to the standards of higher education institutions is still a big difficulty for many universities today. The Vice President of Hoa Sen University shared that for common groups of majors, ensuring lecturers with doctoral degrees meeting the quantity standards is relatively stable, but for some specific majors, this is still a noteworthy challenge.

Explaining this issue, Ms. Viet Nam said that in reality, with specific groups of majors that have artistic aspects or are more practical in nature, many lecturers tend not to be too interested in becoming a doctor. Because the conditions to meet the standards to achieve a doctorate are often difficult to achieve.

For example, teachers who are famous architects and designers have both practical experience in the profession and teaching in fields such as Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Digital Arts, etc. They are often not too keen on “putting aside” their current work to save time and invest in the need to study for a doctorate.

Therefore, applying the general ratio of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees to the entire university will be a limitation. As for common majors such as Economics – Management, Finance – Banking,… the ratio of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees is not too difficult for universities.

As for Hoa Sen University, the majors in the field of Economics have already met the standards of international quality assurance accreditation ACBSP. since 2015, recognized by the American Council for Accreditation. One of the criteria that this quality assurance certification requires is that the educational institution must achieve at least 40% of the teaching volume to be in charge of lecturers with doctoral degrees. Therefore, up to now, for common majors, the school has maintained the number of highly qualified lecturers and ensured stability in terms of quantity. However, human resources for specific majors is still a challenge.

According to Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tuong – Party Secretary, Chairman of the Board of Nghe An University of Economics, currently, the educational institution still focuses on training up to the master's level, and has not opened a doctoral level. This is in line with the mission of a local university; at the same time, the school's training is more practice-oriented, not research-oriented.

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However, the development of a roadmap to ensure compliance with regulations on standards for full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees for higher education institutions still faces some difficulties due to resources.

Specifically, local universities also need to strive to achieve the minimum standard ratio of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees for educational institutions that do not train doctoral students.

Based on current statistics, the proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees at Nghe An University of Economics is approaching 20%. By 2030, the school must continue to strive to have this ratio not lower than 30%.

Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tuong said that for local universities, the number of recruitment quotas for teaching staff is assigned by the locality.

Nghe An University of Economics. Photo: school website.

The time to carry out the recruitment process for lecturers that needs to be reported to the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Home Affairs takes about 3 months. This can lead to a limitation that the recruitment process is prolonged, and applicants are not sure whether they will be recruited or not; during that time, they can easily switch to other places.

On the other hand, the current salary payment according to the State's regulations is also a problem that makes it difficult to attract talents to schools and encourage them to develop their abilities. It is expected that in the near future, educational institutions will be more autonomous and convenient in salary payment, proactively removing many obstacles.

This also contributes to encouraging and promoting international research work and scientific publications by highly qualified lecturers.

Building a roadmap to attract and retain lecturers with doctoral degrees

According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nghe An University of Economics, higher education institutions need to balance activities in providing high-quality training products, scientific research, application consulting and technology transfer; as well as trying to diversify the budget, attracting from many different sources both inside and outside the school.

Besides, paying salary according to job position also helps to properly evaluate the capacity and position of staff and lecturers; create motivation for those who are truly talented, as well as encourage and attract good people to work at the school.

From then on, newly recruited/appointed lecturers, if they meet the job requirements at that job position, will receive a salary commensurate with their efforts and work results, instead of depending on seniority, qualifications, etc. as at present.

Sharing about this issue, the Vice President of Hoa Sen University said that the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 01/2024/TT-BGDDT regulating the Standards of Higher Education Institutions so that schools can gradually complete them according to the roadmap without having to apply them immediately.

Therefore, it can be said that this is also an “open” opportunity that the Ministry of Education and Training creates conditions to help schools build orientations to attract and retain lecturers with doctoral degrees.

Accordingly, schools need to find partners to act as a “bridge” to introduce human resources and lecturers from other schools to work at educational institutions. At the same time, we should develop open and appropriate policies to help create conditions for foreign lecturers as well as Vietnamese lecturers with experience working abroad to return to Vietnam to teach.

Hoa Sen University implements attractive recruitment policies, remuneration, health insurance and welfare to attract PhDs to teach in each field. Photo: NTCC.

This helps shorten and simplify the process of obtaining work permits or work visas for foreign lecturers. This will further expand the international education network, building a dynamic, flexible and world-class Vietnamese university environment.

Dr. Phan Thi Viet Nam shared that Hoa Sen University has developed and implemented specific recruitment policies, attractive remuneration, health insurance and welfare policies to attract PhDs to teach in each field. Notably, for fields with fewer PhDs, the school applies more competitive salaries so that research and teaching lecturers can fully develop their strengths and dedication.

Regarding the working environment, Hoa Sen University is a centrally located training institution with modern facilities, convenient working space and especially an open cultural environment, a dynamic academic environment, easy exchange and respect for differences. Therefore, the school often prioritizes recruiting lecturers who graduated from foreign universities, with international and globalized educational quality.

Regarding career development opportunities, the school has established clear policies to encourage, motivate and support lecturers to continue their studies, creating many opportunities to participate in scientific research projects and business cooperation.

For truly talented applicants, the school will prioritize shortening the recruitment time and simplifying the procedures, in order to create conditions for highly qualified lecturers to accompany the educational institution. It can be said that this is also an advantage of private schools when they are financially autonomous as well as have specific policies.

Factors that promote human resources need to be reflected in the human resource management thinking of university administrators. It is necessary to clearly identify a team with dedicated capacity and implement a flexible recruitment process, applying reasonable policies.

Discussing solutions to attract highly qualified lecturers to ensure compliance with the Standards of higher education institutions, education expert – Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong expressed his opinion: Training institutions can search for and recruit talents by connecting colleagues to submit applications. Only by building a team of good lecturers can the school be qualified to open a doctoral training program.

Education expert – Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong. Photo: NVCC.

On the other hand, we also need to reconsider that the proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees should depend on the scale of doctoral training of each different school. Because if a school only trains in one field for doctors, it is not necessary to require the proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees at that institution to be as high as schools that train doctors in many fields.

In countries with developed education systems in the world, they calculate the proportion of full-time lecturers with doctoral degrees according to each field of study that offers doctoral training and according to the needs of each field, instead of setting a general rule for the entire educational institution. The quality of training depends not only on quantity, but also on the quality, qualifications, level and actual experience of each doctoral lecturer participating in teaching.

Regarding the ability to attract talent, this depends on the treatment and recruitment policies between competing schools.

Liu Yan

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