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For fame or for money?

From the doctorate in badminton research, the most dangerous thing today is the existence of a poor quality doctorate system to guide the next generation of doctoral dissertations.

The doctoral thesis in education studies research solutions to develop badminton for civil servants in Son La city by author Dang Hoang Anh, which was successfully guided, defended, and accepted at the Institute of Physical Education Science. Sports (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) caused many people to stir.

It is clear that here author Dang Hoang Anh has a real education. Before being granted a real doctorate, the research is also guided by professors and associate professors, and has a review committee. However, the research value, practicality and quality of the doctoral thesis are still questions. Public opinion wonders, not only will the doctoral theses on badminton research and then theses on table tennis, tennis … also be approved, the country will have many new, nominal but unreal doctorates. .

Speaking frankly about this issue, Assoc. Because according to Mr. Dung, the current process in Vietnam is to bring a degree – to a position – to have money.

And Mr. Le Truong Tung, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT University, said that the desire to have a good name is not a bad thing, but the current problem is that there are policies to encourage fame. That is the quota of civil servants with doctorate degrees, criteria to become associate professors, professors and criteria for appointment associated with degrees, academic degrees…

Secondly, according to Mr. Tung, the doctoral training system is currently being degraded from schools, institutes, instructors, review boards, acceptance tests, etc., leading to more poor quality doctors.

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The doctoral thesis on the development of badminton is causing a stir

According to Mr. Tung, the story of low-quality PhDs is not new, but the most worrying thing is the status of poor-quality PhDs to guide doctoral theses for the next generation and lead to a system where the main cause is poor. The post-graduate training regulations are not strong enough to tighten the quality.

Need to set up a committee to re-examine some doctoral theses

Hoang Ngoc Vinh, former Director of the Department of Professional Education (Ministry of Education and Training), said that PhD students should also rethink themselves if they do not have enough research capacity to be a PhD student and defend their thesis. PhD should not be done.

According to Mr. Vinh, through this incident, it is clear that the thesis grading committee must be held accountable, in which the instructor has a great responsibility in the research. State management agencies also cannot let go of responsibility but need to compare with Vietnam National Qualifications Framework to recognize or not recognize the results of PhD research.

Mr. Vinh also acknowledged that the goal of training lecturers with a doctorate degree must be a real doctorate, not a “paper” doctorate in order to improve the quality of higher education. However, there are fields of study where it is very difficult to have people with a doctoral degree, well-trained to become an instructor like the physical training and sports industry.

Therefore, if the state wants to train doctors in this field, it should train teachers first and if teachers do not have the appropriate expertise to guide, they should stop. In the case of author Dang Hoang Anh researching solutions to develop badminton for civil servants in Son La city, according to Mr. Vinh, the main instructor has business and economic expertise, so the guide is easy to fall into. “Head of the Department of Ngo and himself” and did not help the PhD student much.

Mr. Vinh also suggested that it is time to have a committee to re-evaluate some doctoral theses based on the Vietnam National Qualifications Framework (VQF). At the same time, it is necessary to consider the responsibilities of the instructors and the defense council, to publicly announce the identity of the members of the doctoral thesis defense committee. In which, the responsibility of the reviewer and the chairman of the council should be put on top. If there is a compromise or night out with a PhD student, appropriate discipline is required for academic fraud.

From the case of a doctorate in badminton research, a principal of a university in Ho Chi Minh City, said that this doctor should not be blamed, but demonstrated the poor professional management of the training unit; scientific staff to guide the thesis (because teachers and students discussed and agreed on the title of the thesis from the beginning); The committee for grading the thesis outline (including the thesis title and implementation content of the thesis) has problems.

According to him, if everyone was responsible during the implementation, this PhD student could have realized it during the research process and not to this extent.

‘Right process’

PhD student Dang Hoang Anh is a lecturer teaching Physical Education, at the Center for Defense and Security Education of Northwestern University.

Responding to VOV, Mr. Duong Xuan Luong, Deputy Director of the Center for Defense and Security Education, said that many online comments may be due to not having a deep understanding of the field of sports, so it is assumed that the content Scientifically, the novelty of this topic is not “worthy” to become a doctoral thesis.

“However, it is important that this thesis has been graded, approved and recognized by the scientific council,” said Mr. Luong.

And Mr. Tran Hieu, Director of the Institute of Sports Science (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) also confirmed that this topic has been appraised by the council through many rounds, has full procedures and test minutes. correct collection.

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