How did the Ministry of Education and Training deal with the ‘doctorate incubator’ of the Academy of Social Sciences?

Ms. Nguyen Thu Thuy, Director of the University Department (Ministry of Education and Training) said the inspection conclusion No. 638/TB-TTCP dated April 29, 2022 of the Government Inspectorate on financial and financial management public property, implementation of investment projects; Organization of cooperation in research, training, joint training, granting master’s and doctoral degrees in the period 2015-2019 of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, including many contents.

In which, regarding training at master’s and doctoral levels, the Notice pointed out: “The work of enrollment, training, and training management from 2017 to now has basically been implemented in accordance with the State’s regulations” and “Before 2017, the training of masters and doctors still had many shortcomings and mistakes (from 2017 to now, it has been basically overcome)”. However, the Government Inspector still recommends: “Ask the Academy of Social Sciences to fully supplement the training process”.

“In this regard, in 2021, the Ministry of Education and Training has issued the Regulation on enrollment and training of master’s degrees together with the Circular No. 23/2021/TT-BGDDT dated August 30, 2021 and the Regulation on enrollment and doctoral training in conjunction with Circular No. 18/2021/TT-BGDĐT dated June 28, 2021. Masters and doctoral training institutions in general and the Academy of Social Sciences in particular have is responsible for developing training regulations and procedures based on these two guiding documents, and at the same time ensuring the minimum requirements specified in the regulations” – Ms. Thuy informed.

According to Ms. Thuy, from 2017 to now, the Academy of Social Sciences has been inspected and inspected by 3 authorities: the Ministry of Education and Training, the State Audit and the Government Inspector. Therefore, the recruitment and training work of the Academy is regularly directed and adjusted in the direction of ensuring compliance with regulations and increasingly improving quality.

“The Ministry of Education and Training will continue to review, correct and work directly with the Academy of Social Sciences and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences to clarify relevant contents.

In parallel with the inspection and examination of the competent authorities, the Ministry of Education and Training still performs the state management function and together with related parties supervise the implementation and explanation of the educational institutions. university education. The Ministry of Education and Training always highly appreciates the process of supervision, reflection and criticism of the society and the scientific community,” – Ms. Thuy affirmed.

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Previously, the Government Inspector’s conclusion pointed out many violations at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and its affiliated units such as students who registered in this major but were granted other degrees; some topics have no scientific contribution.

Specifically, in the period 2015-2017, many violations were pointed out by the Government Inspector, such as: the master’s training process lacks detailed regulations on subjects, exam conditions, conditions for thesis defense, and seniority. work, lack of regulations on foreign language proficiency before thesis defense; does not issue doctoral training programs.

Regulations on enrollment and training for doctoral degrees lack regulations on management experience and seniority as required by each industry. The Academy did not develop a detailed plan to predict targets for each major, master’s and doctoral training major. The announcement of admission to the doctoral degree does not specify the time of professional work.

Regarding scientific management, according to the conclusion, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences promulgates regulations on scientific management, but the content is still inadequate and unreasonable, leading to the subordinate units not to accept the scientific management. timeliness, difficulty in performing tasks. The process of implementing many topics is not in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Science and Technology, regulations on scientific management.

In which, there are 3 topics and tasks that do not have scientific contributions to society; 37 ministerial-level topics and tasks chaired by the office have not been held at the grassroots level before the ministerial-level acceptance; 18 ministerial-level topics and tasks but not accepted at ministerial-level; 55 ministerial-level scientific topics and tasks assigned to individuals outside the unit to lead…

Phuong Chi