Each generation contributes a brick to build the PTIT house.
On March 19, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung chaired a working session with the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology – PTIT. Attending the meeting with nearly 100 officials, lecturers and students of PTIT in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam and leaders of nearly 20 units in the Ministry.
Pointing out the special feature of universities is that they often exist for a long time, the Minister suggested that the Academy's leaders have a long-term vision for the future, and have a 'guiding star'. A long-term vision for the future will lead the Academy better, helping the school ensure continuity and consistency in development and lasting through many generations. However, the Academy's leaders also need to think about the bricks that this generation contributes to building the school. " Think far and think big but need to do it with small steps" , the Minister noted.
The Minister pointed out the factors that the Academy needs to focus on building for long-term, sustainable development. These are the foundations; mission, vision and core values that are formed and maintained throughout; culture to create the glue that binds everyone in the Academy, creating a healthy environment.
Emphasizing that a good foundation will ensure the rapid and sustainable development of the organization, the Minister said that the Academy's leaders must focus on building the foundations. The Academy should be considered a house built by many generations; each generation, each person will contribute a brick to build that house.
Over the past period, the Minister acknowledged and highly appreciated the results that the Academy has achieved. In particular, digital transformation has had initial results, international cooperation has received more attention, and the new leadership has high aspirations and determination.
According to the Director of the Academy, Dang Hoai Bac, many of the things the school has done in the past time are thanks to the important instructions of Minister Nguyen Manh Hung. That is: The Academy's digital transformation, the first thing is to turn the entire Academy into a miniature digital nation; Preserving identity to go far; Asking to learn and practicing to learn; The Academy should open representative offices abroad; There will come a time when the Academy's revenue will come from foreign markets; The greatest asset of a university is its graduates.
By the end of 2023, the Academy will not only be a large-scale university in Vietnam with more than 20,000 students, but will also be among the top universities in Vietnam in ICT and multimedia; a pioneer in university digital transformation. The Academy is also among the top 5 pioneering schools participating in the digital technology human resource training project and is one of the 5 schools in the alliance to develop high-quality human resources in the semiconductor chip industry.
In the 2024 plan report, in addition to identifying key tasks, the Academy's leaders have 'mapped' the Ministry of Information and Communications' motto of action "Broader - More comprehensive - More practical - Better quality - Faster" into the school's activities with specific tasks and jobs.
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At the meeting, not only giving opinions on the development orientation of the Academy, leaders of units of the Ministry of Information and Communications also proposed contents that they want to coordinate with the school such as: Training on digital transformation for officials and civil servants of the Ministry; Organizing training on technology application for journalists; Sending graduate students and doctoral students of the Academy to departments, offices, and institutes to do projects and theses; Connecting the school with domestic and foreign digital technology enterprises to establish cooperation in human resource training...
Assigned to monitor and direct the Academy, Deputy Minister Phan Tam requested that the school focus on improving training quality to meet market demand and use employer evaluation as the main measure. The school also needs to promote high-quality human resources for research and development, and invest in research projects of national significance.
Noting the issue of ethics in universities, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized that universities must always be a clean and healthy environment. Photo: Le Anh Dung
The Minister also took the time to answer the suggestions and questions of the Academy's staff, lecturers and students, suggesting solutions. Specifically, in response to the concerns of the Academy's leaders about effective management solutions in the context of rapid development, the Minister noted 3 things: Maintaining the 2-manager model, moving operations to a digital environment and applying corporate governance knowledge to school management.
Talking to lecturers right before the meeting, in addition to the proposal to use AI to supplement background knowledge for learners, the Minister also asked teachers to innovate teaching activities, with the suggestion of combining online and offline content, by lecturers broadcasting lecture clips and spending time interacting with students.
Affirming that digital technology has a great impact on training, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that the Academy has the opportunity to make a breakthrough and change its ranking. Therefore, the school needs to be determined to apply new technology to transform its training methods. "If the Academy wants to become a leading university in Vietnam and the region, the only way is digital transformation," the Minister pointed out.
The Minister also requested the Academy to consider digital human resources - the team that creates digital training platforms, digital learning materials, and designs online learning and testing - as a core workforce as important as lecturers. Digital human resources should account for 20-30% of the Academy's staff and the school can establish a digital technology enterprise to first transform its own school and then deploy it to other training institutions.
To rise, the Academy must see the fundamental advantages and distinct strengths of its school. The Minister analyzed that digital technology creates new jobs. Therefore, as the only university of the Ministry of State management of digital technology, the Academy needs to focus on training new jobs in digital technology and consider this as the fundamental difference of the school. Accordingly, whatever new jobs or fields digital technology creates, the school will be the leader in the country in training in that field. This difference will help the school create a brand.
The Minister also pointed out specific things that the Academy needs to pay attention to, such as: Considering reskill (teaching new skills or upgrading existing skills to meet new requirements - PV) as a major area of the school, cooperating with Vietnamese digital technology enterprises to train in new technologies, cooperating with a number of large domestic and foreign enterprises to form training centers for new professions, paying attention to innovating new training and business models, diversifying the school's revenue sources, and focusing on building research infrastructure.
Noting in particular that the Academy needs to take advantage of its position as a school under the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Minister requested the school's leaders to coordinate with the Ministry's units to have a plan to bring the quality of training in the industry's fields to the top 1 and 2. The Ministry's Department of Personnel Organization was also directed to coordinate with the Academy to unify the plan to send cadres and experts from units within the Ministry to participate in training and guest lectures.
Expressing gratitude for the guidance and support from the Ministry of Information and Communications, Chairman of the Academy Council Tu Minh Phuong said that the staff, researchers, lecturers, students and pupils of the school will seriously absorb and have a specific plan to implement the instructions and suggestions of the leaders of the Ministry and units.
| The Academy's development strategy clearly defines the vision to become the leading university in Vietnam in terms of scale, quality of training and scientific research by 2030; a pioneer in digital transformation in higher education; in the top 100 in Asia and top 5 in ASEAN in digital technology. |
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