Doctorate in badminton has published research related to this sport

In 2019, author Dang Hoang Anh published a study on “The current situation of the badminton movement of employees” at the Pacific International Conference in the context of the industrial revolution 4.0. This seminar is organized by Bac Ninh University of Physical Education and Sports.

In 2020, the author continued to publish the study “The current situation of needs, motivations and interests in badminton practice of civil servants and public employees in Son La city” in the Journal of Science, Training and Physical Training. Sports, (No. 3) This magazine belongs to Bac Ninh University of Physical Education and Sports compiled and published.

Author Dang Hoang Anh is working at Northwestern University. Reporter VTC News Contacted Mr. Dang Hoang Anh but received no reply. The reporter also contacted Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Van Dung (who guided the thesis on the development of badminton for civil servants in Son La City, Vice Rector of Bac Ninh University of Physical Education and Sports) and did not receive it. answer.

On May 5, in response to VTC News, Mr. Tran Hieu, Director of the Institute of Sports Science (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) confirmed, the topic “Research on solutions to develop badminton for football players”. Son La city civil servants” of graduate student Dang Hoang Anh was guided and protected at the institute. The content of the thesis was published in December 2021 and successfully defended at the hospital level on January 19, 2022.

In response to the question about the practicality and quality of this doctoral thesis, Mr. Hieu affirmed that the project was appraised by the council through many rounds, with full procedures and minutes of acceptance in accordance with regulations. “Social media is overdoing it,” The director of the Institute of Sports Science said in advance that a lot of information said that the topic was too small.

After reading the thesis, Dr. Hoang Ngoc Vinh, former Director of the Department of Professional Education (Ministry of Education and Training), a member of the consulting group of the National Committee for Innovation in Education and Training, commented: “The name of the research topic sounds strange, unlike a doctoral thesis. Some points in the thesis have signs of plagiarism, such as badminton techniques written in textbooks but copied into the thesis. Yes PhD student is trying to attach forced content”.

The thesis has not provided a clear research method, the solutions have not been attached to the cause of the problem, just stopped at the level of “analyze and leave it there”. Between the solution and the actual situation, the way of thinking of the thesis is not compatible with each other.

A doctoral thesis topic must meet many criteria, of which novelty and independence are the most important. The new thing must be discovery, it is not new to do this topic in province A before, but now it is transferred to province B, now it is new to study football, tomorrow to study badminton. Moreover, in doctoral theses, foreign documents are also required, but this thesis is written in a few lines, the content is not linked together. In general, this thesis has enough procedures but the quality is not worthy of becoming a doctoral thesis.

“The stage of censorship and appraisal of topics at the Institute of Sports Science is having problems. Industrial research topics, copy, copy-paste should be eliminated immediately.” Dr. Vinh said. Currently, the Government has promulgated the Vietnam National Qualifications Framework. If applying to that standard framework, doctoral thesis topics that do not meet more than 2/3 of the criteria should be discarded, he added.