Open new training industry to lead the trend
In the 2025 enrollment season, many universities are opening new majors/training programs to anticipate the trend of human resource needs. Hanoi University of Science and Technology has just launched the first specialized training program for engineers in Digital Automotive Engineering in Vietnam.
Dr. Ngo Lam Trung - Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Information Technology and Communications said that the Digital Automotive Engineering training program is designed to provide the Vietnamese and regional labor market with engineers with outstanding capabilities in two main areas: Automotive software development and automotive mechanical design, simulation, and testing, meeting the demand for highly qualified human resources in the new field - the future of the digital automotive industry. The postgraduate engineering training program (1.5 years) specializing in Digital Automotive Engineering, aims to provide interdisciplinary in-depth training in Digital Automotive Engineering.
Bachelor's degree graduates from relevant majors such as Automotive Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Control and Automation, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Security, Information Technology, Automotive Engineering Technology, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering... can all apply. The program is also open to bachelors from other universities, provided they meet the entry knowledge and skills requirements.
Currently, many higher education institutions are also opening new majors/programs in the 2025 enrollment season, mainly related to the fields of finance, urban, transportation, information technology, new energy and strategic industrial sectors such as: Semiconductor microchips, artificial intelligence...
Need to improve teaching quality
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc - Chairman of the University Council - University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi - said that it is necessary to recognize the reality that at higher education institutions, the teaching and research staff in the field of high technology is still limited. Infrastructure and modern laboratories cannot keep up with advanced technologies in the world. There are very few strong research groups in the field of high technology, while investment funding is still modest... Not to mention the training programs in high technology fields are still poor in terms of quantity and content. The programs at schools are still scattered, and the basic science subjects in the program are still lacking and weak.
"Therefore, human resources after training in high technology lack both STEM knowledge foundation and basic scientific knowledge. They also lack practical skills and application capacity is still very limited" - Mr. Nguyen Dinh Duc analyzed.
Mr. Duc also expressed concern that in recent years, the rate of high school candidates choosing social science subjects is twice as high as that of natural science subjects. Candidates tend to choose the easy subjects and ignore the difficult ones.
“Experience in admissions in developed countries shows that mathematics is an indispensable subject in all university admission combinations and in the current context of Industry 4.0, if university admissions are not innovated, it will affect the quality of human resources. Therefore, it is necessary to innovate university admissions; promote and innovate, and improve the quality of teaching STEM subjects at high school level” - Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc informed.
On the side of the Ministry of Education and Training, Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son said that if we want to have many excellent students in technical and technological fields, career guidance needs to be carried out very early so that when they reach high school level, they can visualize and choose.
