Representatives of many schools of culture and arts spoke out about the proposal that the title of People's Artist is equivalent to a PhD, which has caused a stir in public opinion recently.
Difficult to recruit
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thi, Principal of Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, said that as an art training institution, the number of new graduate students recruited each year is not large. Moreover, it is not easy for artists and lecturers with master's degrees to access advanced and specialized scientific research. Therefore, it is very difficult for the school to complete the number of permanent lecturers to meet the criteria in the training regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training .
That is the reason why the school proposed to consider the People's Artist equivalent to the master's and doctoral degrees. This will only apply to enrollment quotas and when opening major codes for specific majors in the art field. This proposal "does not apply to all People's Artists as people mistakenly believe" and does not completely replace the doctorate in master's and doctoral training.
Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thi (right) at the graduation ceremony of the University of Theater and Cinema.
Mr. Thi said that opening a university training program and determining annual enrollment targets is related to the entire faculty. "If there are not enough masters and PhDs, it will be difficult to determine enrollment targets."
" In some art training institutions, it is necessary for people's artists to participate in the training process. The Ministry of Education and Training should also acknowledge the participation of people's artists, because these are people with a lot of experience in professional activities; they teach students vocational skills very well, " Mr. Thi added.
The difficulties of the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema are also common difficulties of art training institutions nationwide. Dr. Do Xuan Phuc, Principal of the University of Arts (Hue University) said that currently, some state regulations are making it difficult for art and culture schools. Especially the conditions for the number of masters and doctors when enrolling in university, graduate school, and opening new majors.
"There is no institution in the country that offers doctoral training in arts, but why do documents still require art and culture training schools to have a doctoral degree to participate in training, management or to open new majors to recruit students? I hope that there will be early consideration and adjustment of the inadequacies so as not to disadvantage art and culture schools," said Mr. Phuc.
Proposing a special mechanism
Prof. Dr. Tu Thi Loan, Chairwoman of the Council of Science and Training, Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts, said that the art field needs special policies. Those who have been awarded the title of People's Artist and Meritorious Artist are important in their professional expertise, not in their scientific research.
The number of permanent lecturers with master's and doctoral degrees in art schools is low. (Illustration photo: TN)
"In fact, in considering the title of associate professor, professor, special characteristics such as people's artist, having awards that will be converted into research works, for example, have been updated. So there is no reason why some art schools cannot be given special treatment, through conversion as the art schools proposed, it could be a way to do it," she said.
In the long term, Ms. Loan believes that the authorities need to continue to improve and raise the standards of doctoral training. If they are not encouraged, there will be no one to study art at the beginning, let alone graduate students.
Mr. Pham Nhu Nghe, Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Training, said that in the regulations on conditions, procedures and procedures for opening training majors, the Ministry has taken into account the specific factors of art schools (Circulars 02 and 03 of 2022).
Specifically, for university training majors or new majors in the arts, it is only necessary to ensure that there are 3 PhDs as permanent lecturers with appropriate expertise, instead of 5 PhDs as in general majors. At the same time, the Ministry has allowed guest lecturers in arts majors to undertake up to 40% of the training volume; while for non-specific fields, this number is 30%.
The Ministry also allows schools to convert lecturers with the title of People's Artist and a master's degree to replace lecturers with a doctorate. Or lecturers with a doctorate can replace lecturers with the title of associate professor. " Thus, compared to other majors, the conditions for opening new majors and recruiting new students have been lowered by one level," he said.
The Deputy Director also emphasized that the proposal by schools to consider the People's Artist degree equivalent to a Master's or Doctorate degree is not regulated and is also difficult to implement. This will be further studied and considered by the Ministry of Education and Training and related units.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hoai Son, Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education, also disagreed with the above proposal.
According to Mr. Son, doctoral and master's degrees with the title of People's Artist and Meritorious Artist are two different standards that cannot be applied interchangeably. Doctoral training is theoretical training, requiring the application of theory and the use of research methods. Writing a thesis is the implementation of a scientific work, in which theory is applied and scientific methods are used to analyze a practical problem. Meanwhile, People's Artist and Meritorious Artist are more practice-oriented.
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