(To Quoc) - Over the past 50 years, from 1977 to 2024, with spacious, modern facilities and a team of enthusiastic staff, lecturers and workers, the School has strived to transform itself every day, every hour on the path of development.
The School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management is the only unit of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the function and task of training and fostering cadres and civil servants of the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector, meeting the requirements of the tasks in the process of national modernization and the period of international integration. Over the past 50 years, from 1977 to 2024, with spacious and modern facilities and a team of enthusiastic cadres, lecturers and workers, the School has strived to transform itself every day, every hour on the path of development. After many name changes, on September 3, 2013, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) signed Decision No. 2995/QD-BVHTTDL to rename the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management Training to the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management. Along with the new name, the School was assigned many new and important tasks, a new page of history was opened with broader and larger functions and tasks. And the year 2024 entered the history of the School with a brilliant milestone, the School was awarded the First Class Labor Medal by the Party and State.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung, who was holding the position of Deputy Minister in 2020, visited and worked with the School.
Some overview of 47 years of construction and growth
On January 21, 1977, according to Decision No. 12/QD-VH of the Minister of Culture, the In-service High-Level Political School under the Ministry of Culture was established. Since the spring of that year, after many times of moving headquarters, changing names, functions, and tasks, the In-service High-Level Political School has now developed into the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management Cadres, with the position of the only unit of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the function and task of training and fostering cadres and civil servants of the culture, sports and tourism sector, meeting the requirements of the tasks in the process of national modernization and the period of international integration. During the process of formation and development over the past 50 years, under the direct leadership and direction of many generations of leaders of the Ministry, the School has trained and fostered tens of thousands of leaders and managers in the fields of culture, family, sports and tourism nationwide, contributing significantly to the cause of building and developing the Industry on par with the country's innovation. The journey of nearly 50 years of development has marked changes and transformations with great successes that are very proud. In particular, the last 5 years have been a period marking a remarkable growth of the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management Staff.
From a "small" school in terms of both material and training and development scale, up to now, with the presence of stature, position and great contributions to the common cause, the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management has truly grown and matured, becoming the pride of generations of leaders, staff and lecturers of the School. Looking back on the past, each staff, lecturer and the entire School is more confident and motivated to continue to build the School stronger and stronger, to develop continuously with long-term and larger plans, one of which is to become a training and development facility worthy of a multi-disciplinary industry such as the Culture, Sports and Tourism industry. Moving towards the 47th Anniversary of its founding, reviewing important milestones, looking back at the 5-year journey (2019 - 2024), each staff and lecturer of the School is proud of their significant contributions to the great achievements that have been made.
Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ta Quang Dong took a souvenir photo at the Cooperation Exchange Program between the School and the delegation of officials from the Central Academy of Culture and Tourism Management of China.
Outstanding achievements lay the foundation for sustainable development in the future
Continuing to write the golden pages of history, the 5-year journey from 2019 to 2024, the School has created special marks of a period of stability and development. On the basis of the inherited foundation of the previous period, a spacious and modern school located at the western gateway of the capital, along with a team of cadres and civil servants supplemented enough to meet the requirements of the task. The School's leadership has determined the goal of rapid, comprehensive and sustainable development, in which priority is given to improving the quality of training and fostering; focusing on building, consolidating and developing the team of permanent lecturers; enhancing scientific research activities, solidarity, upholding traditions, bringing the School to a new height, worthy of the assigned tasks and responsibilities.
If facilities are the premise, then strengthening the apparatus is a great driving force for development. The new functions and tasks of the School are stipulated in Decision No. 805/QD-BVHTTDL dated March 31, 2023 of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the scale of 3 functional departments, 2 faculties and affiliated units, which is an inevitable step in line with the trend, helping the School establish a new position in the system of schools of the Ministry and Industry, capable of shouldering the tasks of a training and fostering institution for cadres as stipulated in Decree No. 89/2021/ND-CP dated October 18, 2021 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 101/2017/ND-CP dated September 1, 2017 of the Government on training and fostering cadres, civil servants and public employees.
According to Decision No. 805/QD-BVHTTDL, the School has important tasks such as: Submitting to the Minister strategies, planning, long-term, medium-term and annual plans on building and developing the School in accordance with the requirements for training and fostering cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers in the culture, sports and tourism sector, and organizing implementation after approval; Investigating, surveying, determining short-term and long-term training and fostering needs for cadres, civil servants, public employees and proposing training and fostering methods suitable to the characteristics of the culture, sports and tourism sector; Coordinating the development of long-term and annual training and fostering plans from the state budget, submitting them to the Minister for approval and organizing implementation after approval; Organizing the compilation of documents for programs assigned by competent authorities to organize training; Organizing training and fostering: Political theory, legal knowledge, knowledge and skills of state management according to the standards of the civil servant rank and equivalent, the specialist rank and equivalent, the senior specialist rank and equivalent, state management knowledge before being appointed to leadership and management positions at the department level and equivalent, knowledge and skills according to the requirements of the job position, mandatory annual specialized knowledge and skills; public ethics, professional ethics, international integration knowledge, information technology, foreign languages, ethnic languages and other training and fostering programs according to the provisions of law; Organizing scientific research on training and fostering professional skills in the management of the culture, sports and tourism sector; Applying advanced technology in the fields of culture, family, physical education, sports and tourism to improve the quality of training and fostering the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees of the sector; Implementing international cooperation in building and developing training and fostering programs and materials; Improve knowledge, experience in international integration, state administrative management skills and specialized management skills; exchange experts and other activities serving training, fostering, research and development of human resources in the culture, sports and tourism sector according to the provisions of law.
Overview of the School of Cultural, Sports and Tourism Management
For each school, the main task is training and development. This important task has been given special attention by the school's leaders, invested appropriately, developed with a strategy and a methodical plan, and has achieved remarkable success. Specifically:
Regarding teaching: If in the past, the guest lecturers were the core (accounting for 80%), causing a lot of pressure on connecting and inviting lecturers, up to now, the School's permanent lecturers have basically shouldered the teaching tasks in training and fostering classes.
With the direction, orientation, care, encouragement and facilitation of the School's Board of Directors, the School's permanent and part-time lecturers have made breakthroughs in both quantity and quality. The School's lecturers have directly taught classes, ensuring the entire specialist training program and the social and cultural civil servant training program of communes, wards and towns; a part of the main specialist training program, mastering more than half of the Intermediate Political Theory - Administrative training program. To have a permanent lecturer team like today, the School has sought appropriate measures and steps to help lecturers proactively and actively improve their qualifications and teaching methods to meet job requirements. In particular, sending lecturers to practice in localities and contact with practical experience at the grassroots level is one of the methods that has brought high efficiency; At the same time, putting into practice the lecture evaluation activities; Promoting professional activities in the Faculties; The Lecture Evaluation Council and the Scientific Council regularly assist and advise lecturers in preparing lectures and teaching practice; Regularly encourage and create conditions for lecturers to study and improve their professional capacity; Ensure benefits in terms of salary, seniority allowances, and bonuses; Have a timely reward system to encourage lecturers with achievements so that they have more motivation to strive. The above measures are implemented synchronously and actively, creating an enthusiastic atmosphere, and the awareness of self-training and self-improvement among the teaching staff is clearly enhanced.
Exchange and Cooperation Program between the School of Culture, Sports and Tourism Management and the Central Academy of Culture and Tourism Management of China
Regarding scientific activities: In the past, scientific research activities seemed to be a difficult task for the staff, lecturers and employees of the School. Each year, there was usually only 1 school-level topic and 1 ministry-level topic implemented, and it was quite difficult to ensure the set progress. But in recent years, on average, each year there are 2 school-level scientific topics and 5 to 6 initiatives and experiences organized, implemented and accepted on time. The School has enough human and material resources to ensure the implementation of 2 ministry-level scientific topics at the same time. Investigation and survey activities are spread across the country with enthusiastic support from localities. This activity not only creates conditions for connection between the School and localities nationwide, but is also highly appreciated by the Ministry for its seriousness and scientific nature when the topics are accepted. The work of guiding the process of implementing scientific topics, initiatives, experiences and research activities seriously has attracted most of the staff and lecturers of the School to participate in topics of high applicability, meeting the requirements and urgent demands of the current development practice. Through that, it also helps the team of research staff and lecturers of the School to truly mature in terms of expertise and profession. Thus, the result is not only the number of scientific topics accepted and evaluated as excellent but also the growth of a team, creating a great step forward in research work, marking an important milestone in the scientific research activities of the School.
The school has also compiled, approved by the Ministry and put into use nationwide many sets of textbooks, training and development materials for many groups of students. Typical examples include: Lecture series on the Situation and tasks of the culture, sports and tourism sector under the Intermediate Training Program on Political Theory - Administration; Training materials for specialists; 3 sets of in-depth training materials on organizing, managing festivals, sports and building grassroots cultural life for commune-level civil servants; Training program on knowledge and skills in organizing and managing festivals; Training program on knowledge of professional ethics and codes of conduct for civil servants working in the arts; Training program on knowledge and skills in managing the culture, sports and tourism sector... The sets of documents compiled by the school have received high appreciation from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, agencies, units and localities nationwide.
Every year, the School is entrusted by the Ministry with the task of organizing training courses to raise awareness of the environment and climate change for localities in key areas of tourism development. Organizing seminars and conferences to investigate and survey the training needs and fostering of cadres, civil servants and public employees in the culture, sports and tourism sector.
Meeting with generations of leaders, staff and lecturers of the School on Vietnamese Teachers' Day November 20
Regarding training and fostering: considered the "backbone" activity of the School and in the past 5 years, this work has created new and particularly outstanding marks: Every year, the School trains and fosters thousands of cadres and civil servants in the whole Industry in political theory, state management, industry management knowledge, professional skills, foreign languages and information technology. The training and fostering organization process is improved and gradually standardized, strictly managed and synchronized from the enrollment stage to the granting of degrees and certificates, therefore, the quality of training and fostering is improved, put into practice, avoiding the phenomenon of beating the drum to register names, which is a formality in learning. Not only training and fostering the staff of the industry, according to the decentralization and delegation of authority in Decree No. 89/2021/ND-CP dated October 18, 2021 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 101/2017/ND-CP dated September 1, 2017 of the Government on training and fostering cadres, civil servants and public employees, with its affirmed reputation, the School also organizes many classes and training programs for localities in the form of socialization, contributing significantly to the standardization of the staff in general in the period of industrialization and modernization of the country. Socialization work is constantly promoted with training and fostering links with academies, universities, colleges, agencies and organizations nationwide, contributing significantly to enhancing the position of the School in the new period.
Over the past 5 years, the Party Committee has continuously maintained the title of "Typical Clean and Strong Party Committee", increasingly affirming its leadership role, each Party member is the core nucleus in each step of the School's growth. Under the leadership of the Party Committee and the Government, the School's Trade Union is a reliable address in protecting the legitimate rights and interests of cadres, lecturers and workers, and at the same time organizing many meaningful activities that contribute significantly to building and consolidating the solidarity and unanimity in the School. With these achievements, the School's Trade Union has been awarded many proud awards by the Ministry's Trade Union and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.
School Union participates in Sports Tournament organized by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Union
Receiving the First Class Labor Medal, a proud milestone
The 5-year period marked a strong impression with breakthrough achievements on the path of sustainable development of the School. The end of 2024 with a bustling, excited atmosphere in the hearts of cadres and lecturers when the day of receiving the First Class Labor Medal is approaching. In the flow of nearly 50 years, each achievement has the joint efforts, solidarity, in difficult times as well as favorable times of generations of leaders, cadres, lecturers, civil servants and employees of the School. Besides, one of the important reasons that helps the School build and maintain its position as a red address for training and fostering cadres for the industry as it is today is the close attention, support, trust in assigning tasks of the Ministry's leaders, the close coordination of the Department of Organization and Personnel, and the functional agencies of the Ministry. Promoting the achievements, the School continues to innovate, improve the quality of training and foster management staff of the Industry, contributing to the excellent completion of political, professional and technical tasks assigned by the Ministry and the State.
Each 5-year journey creates a milestone on the development path. The period 2019 - 2024 with comprehensive marks in both "quantity" and "quality" with the peak being the ceremony to receive the First Class Labor Medal, will be a proud milestone for each cadre, lecturer and employee to constantly unite, be dynamic, creative, overcome difficulties, excellently complete assigned tasks and plans; continue to develop the School sustainably, worthy of its position as a prestigious training and fostering institution for leaders and managers of culture, family, sports, and tourism, contributing more to the cause of national construction and sustainable development of the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector in the new period./.
Dr. Pham Que Anh, Party Secretary - Principal of the School of Culture, Sports and Tourism Management
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