After 28 years of construction and development, Thu Duc College of Technology has obtained outstanding growth. It has made a long stride from a technical and vocational training centre to a tertiary college. The college has also become one of the leading training cradles of high-quality human resources for the city and the country.
Vietnam has become a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Vietnam has also signed the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) covering 12 service sectors, including education. Entering this treaty meant that Vietnam recognised education as a commercial service activity. This is also a mixed blessing for Thu Duc College of Technology in improving training quality to meet the demand for high-quality human resources for the cause of industrialisation and modernisation.
In keeping with the new trend, Thu Duc College of Technology has over 65 percent of lecturers with postgraduate qualifications and 15 percent finishing short-term or long-term training courses in such countries as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Germany.
The college attaches particular importance to personnel construction while investing to upgrade modern synchronous infrastructure on its more than 5-acre campus to match its high-quality training functions. Physical training is also appreciated with football field, volleyball courts, basketball courts and tennis courts. This combination of knowledge and physical training puts the college on par with leading training units in developed countries in the world.
Thu Duc College of Technology is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Business Association and has a close relationship with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI). This helps the college form relationships with businesses and entrepreneurs to seek expert advice for better training contents to meet labour market requirements, or employers.
The school now has two full-package training programmes transferred by Singapore Polytechnic which help narrow the gap between training contents and real social demand, and helps students with better preparation before entering the labour force. In addition, the school has introduced business start-up subject to all faculty members for nearly 10 years, helping graduate students not only work for various companies, but also set up their own businesses.
Thu Duc College of Technology also has training cooperation with developed countries, especially South Korea and Japan. Annually, it selects and sends staff to learn in cooperative units and receives hundreds of students from advanced universities in South Korea like Yeungnam, Kimpo, Seowon, Mirae and Taegu or joins cultural exchange or experience exchange, helping students with better living skills.
Specially, the school has collaborated with Japanese Preesia House Corporation on its internships in three years in Japan. This is a demand-based training programme signed with a foreign enterprise. Through the programme, the college has collected extensive experience in demand-based training programme development and implementation.
It also organises scientific research to equip students with practical knowledge when they are still at school. It applies advanced IT applications to training to ease learning pressures on students. LED, solar and robotic tech research is performed by students under the instruction of lecturers.
The mission of Thu Duc College of Technology is to train human resources with good ethics, competence, career devotion and creativity, individual values, preserving national cultural traditions, and imbuing the sense of lifelong learning. According to its development vision towards 2020, the college will be a training cradle of high-quality human resources for Ho Chi Minh City and the entire nation.
Bich Thuy
Vietnamese
