The artificial intelligence training centre at the Vietnam National University-HCM City (Photo: VNA) Even many schools training economics majors turning into multidisciplinaryschools are starting to open majors in technology.
However, education experts wonder if the conditions of the training program,teaching staff, and material facilities are guaranteed.
Rector of the University of Economics HCM City Su Dinh Thanh said theuniversity would open many new disciplines including Financial technology(Fintech), Marketing technology (Martech), Digital business, Robots andartificial intelligence (Robot & AI), Logistics technology (Logitech).
In addition, the university would launch new integrated dual-division, dualdegree programmes namely political economy and law, and local management.
Although the school would keep the admission approaches stable as in 2022, itwould increase the quota for the admission method according to the results ofthe high school graduation exam.
Meanwhile, the Admission Council of the Vietnam National University-HCM Cityhas approved some new undergraduate majors at its member universities.
For instance, the University of Information Technology has piloted anartificial intelligence major, while the University of Natural Sciences hasopened management of natural resources and environment, technology of physicsand electronics and informatics.
The An Giang University has launched quality assurance and food safety,veterinary medicine and traditional medicine and nursing.
Thai Doan Thanh, vice principal of the HCM City University of Food Industry,said the university planned to open five new majors this year, includingfinancial technology, data science, law, logistics and supply chain management,and e-commerce.
Similarly, many universities in the northern region have also started to openmany new fields of study, many of which are associated with digital technology.
The Hanoi University of Industry plans to launch five new majors namelyrenewable energy, smart manufacturing engineering, electronic engineeringtechnology, bio-medicine, and linguistics.
The Foreign Trade University will open two new majors, namely political economyand international political economy, to be trained at the headquarters.
According to the latest report of the Ministry of Education and Training,groups of majors most chosen by candidates last year were computer andinformation technology, business and management, and technical technology.
Along with opening a number of new majors to meet social needs, someuniversities also stopped enrollment in some majors in which no students haveenrolled for years.
According to education experts, universities offering new majors related totechnology and digitisation are in line with the country’s socio-economicdevelopment targets and digital transformation trend.
Tran Anh Tuan, a human resource forecaster and vice chairman of the HCM CityVocational Education Association, said occupations were tending to changeaccording to the needs of Industry 4.0 and associated with the digital era, sothere had been shifts between types of employment nowadays not like that before.
There had been many new occupations in the labour market. Therefore, schoolsmust self-adjust and offer digital technology-related majors to well preparefor students in this era such as artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce,public relations, event organisation, and digital marketing.
“In addition, businesses are integrating business and technology,” he said.
As a result, majors in technology management, and medical engineeringmanagement were being launched, he said.
Pham Thai Son, director of the Centre for Admissions and Communication of theHCM City University of Food Industry, said technology trends were dominatingwhile learners also enrolled in majors which are hybrids between technology andother technical disciplines such as food business administration, digitalmarketing, financial technology, data science and AI.
Along with new training programs, schools should have innovation andcoordination of talented entrepreneurs, engineers, and people who haveexperienced and succeeded in many areas, he said.
Universities which are granted self-autonomy to open majors and set admissionquotas must meet the Ministry of Education and Training’s regulations onopening training majors and regulations on determining targets, according toexperts.
They also advised that before committing to a major, learners should considerseveral factors, including their personalities and interests, the programmecost and the employment rates in that field of study./.
VNA
