Minister of Education: “70% of bachelor of information technology must retrain”
- Tram Ho
According to Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha, the survey results show that among 50,000 IT graduates, only 30% work immediately and 70% have to retrain.
This is the information given at the seminar “Developing highly qualified ICT human resources: Mounting higher education – business establishments” on March 30.
At the seminar, Minister Phung Xuan Nha said that there are 235 universities in the country, including 50 information technology training schools, and about 50,000 information technology students annually graduate. However, the number compared to the demand for the development of information technology enterprises, especially under the direction of the Prime Minister, from now to 2020 there will be 1 million start-up enterprises, of which the priority is to start the technology industry. believe, is very lacking.
“According to calculations, the growth rate of information technology enterprises, the demand for jobs is great, in 2020, 100,000 bachelor of information technology will be needed. But more important is quality. According to the survey of 50,000 IT bachelors who graduated from the university, only 30% were able to work immediately, having the right job, 70% had to retrain, ”said Mr. Nha.
Sharing this issue, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that the Vietnamese education tradition is to study first and then do it, the main teacher of listening and learning textbooks is the main one. In fact, the lecture hall is the main campus of the university, learning a lot of little practice, long-term learning is the main.
The world did it first and then learned it later, self-taught to know 70-80% and then asked the teacher, learned how to find more important problems, the laboratory became the main campus of the school; study in a virtual environment, simulate more than a real environment; English, technology becomes the minimum and mandatory tool.
Creating talks Developing high-level ICT human resources: Connecting higher education institutions – enterprises “on March 30 (Photo: Le Tung)
Meanwhile, the competition in the 4.0 era is the competition for human resources. Any country that has good human resources, responds quickly to the needs of technology change, uses technology to well solve the problems of its own country, of humanity, that country will win the competition.
“Manpower will be an advantage, if we solve the problem of manpower supply and demand between the school and the market, innovate training to meet the change of the times,” Hung said.
In order to enhance the level of human resources for information technology, Minister Phung Xuan Nha said that universities need to change training methods to reduce academic achievement, strengthen students to practice, and immerse themselves in businesses. IT industry, like medical school with hospitals. Having to create creative innovation centers, start-up ecosystems, information technology students to graduate not only have jobs but also start jobs.
Meanwhile, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung affirmed that the connection between schools and businesses will promote the improvement of training quality and meet practical needs.
“The output of the school is a business but the school has understood the business, has followed the business to design its products yet? To have good manpower for yourself, have you joined the school to design products? Or are these two objects still far apart and blame each other? Is it time for 2 yet 1? ”, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung raised many questions.
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