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Under the impact of the socialist-oriented market economy and international integration, more and more autonomy has been assigned to public higher education institutions to encourage their appropriate and effective use of resources to improve training quality. In reviewing the model of human resource management and knowledge management based on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach, this paper presents a model built for developing academic staff under the consideration of several factors including external factors, internal factors, the autonomy and social responsibilities of the University for outputs, stakeholders (university administration board, investors, human resources units, university members) and the quality management of higher education institutions.
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Through the data survey (using the questionnaires promoted by Nguyen and colleagues, 2014) with one hundred and fifty 9thgrade students at Nghia Tan secondary school located in Hanoi city of Vietnam, the paper describes the practice of their competence of self-regulated learning (specified in their off-class time). The limitations in the 9th graders’ competence of self-regulated learning in out-ofclass time are also revealed and pointed out, including such extents as students’ low reading speed, lack of taking notes skill, their notwell-oriented revision. Since then, the current paper provides recommendations on the role of secondary school teachers in forming and promoting their learners’ competence of out-of-class self-regulated learning, specifically teachers’ classroom guidance and their ways to support students’ learning
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Global citizenship education is becoming one of the strategies of education development in particular and human resource development in general. In this trend, Vietnam P-12 National Curriculum (issued 2018) has focused on educational objectives about sustainable and students’ competency development of UNESCO and Vietnam comprehensive education innovation. This article points out and analyzes opportunities for global citizenship education in the primary written curriculum of Sciences, History and Geography subjects. In addition, challenges, which faced by schools when implementing global citizenship education, are shown in this paper. Based on the advantages and disadvantages, the authors gave some recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of global citizenship education
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Governance is essential in the development of a public university. In university governance, the administrator plays a pivotal role. If governance is the factor that contributes to the success of a university, the administrator must be the one who takes a decisive role in the success of all governing activities. In the context of our country’s higher education system, in which fundamental changes are taking place, the university administrators are required to possess certain qualities and competencies. They need to be fully fostered to obtain those qualities and competencies.
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Primary school students of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam have unfavorable economic and social conditions, which has a huge impact on the quality of education in these areas, especially life skills education. Based on this proposition, the author has identified teachers’ viewpoints on the need of educating life skills for this target group of students and difficulties in implementing life skills education. Survey tools used in this research include questionnaires and interviews, direct observation with 218 teachers in Thai Nguyen, Bac Kan, Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Dien Bien, and Lai Chau provinces. The survey results show that most teachers are aware of the need to implement life skills education and have regularly implemented life skills education for ethnic minority primary school students in the northern mountainous areas, albeit with limited effectiveness. At the same time, the study also shows that the main difficulty preventing teachers in this area from implementing life skills education for students is that students’ parents are unaware of the role of life skills education and that schools focus too much on teaching the Vietnamese language and Mathematics to students, so they have not paid enough attention to the methods and forms of organizing life skills education. From this research, we propose a group of measures to organize and replicate the topics on life skills education for teachers in the regions to raise awareness about the use of diverse methods and forms of organizing life skills education in daily teaching activities. In addition, we also propose groups of measures to promote coordination between schools, families and social communities to raise awareness about the role of life skills education for ethnic minority students in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam.
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This paper reports findings from a study conducted to identify university preparation of transferrable skills in an undergraduate course at a Vietnamese university. The paper first reviews the concept of transferrable skills and relevant literature on the development of transferrable skills both in international and Vietnamese higher education context. It then outlines the data collection instruments and the data collection procedure, from which insights into transferable skills development at the specified institution were drawn. The findings reveal that despite clearly articulating learning and skillset outcomes, the university under investigation adopted an isolated ad hoc approach and did not provide a range of opportunities and contexts for its students to master the transferable skills expected. The paper highlights the importance of adjusting teaching and learning practices in a way that students can develop useful skills for their personal, academic, and professional life.
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The current study was conducted to investigate high school EFL teachers’ perceptions towards the role of content schema activation that is focused on the pre-reading stage of their students’ reading comprehension ability and to find out the most common instructional strategies EFL teachers use to foster schema activation in the EFL classroom and gain insights into possible difficulties EFL teachers face when activating schemata in the reading lessons. The participants included 77 EFL high school teachers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. To collect the data, a 22-item questionnaire and the semistructured interview on the teachers’ perceptions were carried out. The findings showed that although the participants had a positive perception towards the role of schema activation in English reading comprehension, they confirmed instructional strategies were not often used to activate students’ schemata in English reading comprehension. In addition, the participants tend to use more simple strategies, such as questioning, brainstorming, discussion and using audiovisual aids than complex strategies, Know - Want to know - Learned chart, semantic mapping, and anticipation guide, in order to activate students’ schemata. Most possible difficulties in activating students’ schemata in English reading comprehension were also revealed, such as the students’ limited linguistic knowledge, unfamiliar reading text’s topics, limited time for teaching reading, time-consuming work in designing the effective and appropriate schema activation activities, and the large classes. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are presented based on these findings.
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The acceleration of all systems is the main characteristic of life in the 21st century, including in the economic field. The emergence of digitalization which is often associated with neo-capitalism has made practitioners in the Civic Economy need to strengthen their existence. Especially in the field of engaging to solve economic issues in society by using national values. It requires comprehensive skills or commonly known as transferable skills. In this study, the scope used is the practice of the economy in Indonesia with the perspective of the emergence of social entrepreneurship trends that are promoted by youth to run a business and strengthen social relations simultaneously. Based on the analysis of literacy studies, it was found that the existence of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia in building transferable skills is: 1) becoming a non-formal education for youth in the economic and social fields; 2) encouraging the creation of a multitalented generation, and 3) have the opportunity to become a role model for the implementation of Economy based on Pancasila values. However, weaknesses in the regeneration process and organizational development management are still obstacles that must be addressed immediately so that existing opportunities can be optimally fulfilled
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Past research has reported that training on other aspects affected the learner’s language complexity but did not substantially promote accuracy or the results were too ambiguous to determine if accuracy was also improved (Ellis, 1987; Crookes, 1989; Wigglesworth, 1997). This study set out to determine if this is also the case for speed reading courses, in which EFL learners are trained to improve their reading fluency. An experiment was conducted on university students in order to see if their language knowledge accuracy would improve when their reading fluency developed. During the experiment, two treatment groups and two control groups were following an English program at university while the treatment groups also followed a speed reading course, which lasted two months. A set of language memory span tests were given before and after the treatment. The results indicated that although improvement in reading fluency facilitates language complexity, it does not assist language accuracy development to a remarkable degree.
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The education process of the 21st century has been heavily impacted upon by digital technology. This impact has culminated in the transformation of pedagogy and learning through the penetration of digital technology into the social, political and economic fabric of society. Learning is now more strategic with a greater emphasis on learner-centred learning and virtual collaboration, whereby the role of the teacher has changed to a facilitator of learning, rather than the fountain of knowledge. This paradigmatic shift in approach responds to the need for life-long learning whereby, in a freelance economy, individuals will be expected to engage in working landscapes requiring a broad range of skill sets, including the soft skills. A freelance economy encourages individuals, through greater levels of autonomy, to collaborate and engage in enhanced decision-making and, as a result, be positioned to participate in the improvement of society through the use of flexible learning structures supported by digital technologies. This expectation, therefore, impacts educational institutions across sectors, requiring them to provide learners with the skills necessary to continue their learning journeys well beyond their formal education. In response to this pedagogical shift, this paper provides insights into the wide scope of digital technology use for 21st century learning to date. It provides three exemplars that encompass: 1) School curriculum implementation; 2) Enhancing languages education and 3) Use of Zoom for online collaboration. All three address the challenges faced in implementation, in addition to outlining the associated expectations, strategies and support mechanisms.