Is quality compromised?

N "HOT" DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY, WANT TO RECRUIT IMMEDIATELY IF THERE IS A DOCTOR!

In recent years, the demand for human resources in the field of information technology (IT) is considered to be always "hot". To meet this demand and to develop trending fields of study, universities and colleges have simultaneously opened majors in the field of IT, including majors and specialties such as IT, computer science , computer engineering, artificial intelligence, software technology, programming, big data...

Name of the topic Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai instructed for students

Mr. Khuc Trung Kien, former Director of the Fast Track SE programmer training program, commented that in these fields, people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs do not have degrees, but have great practical knowledge and expertise, and are completely capable of teaching students. "However, a person using a fake degree is not qualified to teach students in any subject, theory or practice, academic or practical knowledge...", Mr. Kien said.

According to Mr. Kien, with the rapid development of the IT field, schools are recruiting a large number of students, which inevitably leads to a gap in recruiting lecturers, when the requirement of the Ministry of Education and Training is that if they want to open a major and determine the quota, they must have enough PhDs and Masters according to regulations.

"The requirement to meet the ratio of lecturers/students, while in reality, PhDs in this field are very rare... may be the reason for the situation of fake degrees to teach. Schools need to recruit masters and PhDs to meet the regulations, while the fakers need to teach... When the two sides meet, the ones who suffer are the students," said Mr. Khuc Trung Kien.

A PhD who served three terms as head of the information technology department at two universities in Ho Chi Minh City admitted: "Currently, there are many IT masters, but they prefer to work in businesses. IT PhDs are very rare. IT PhDs working in businesses earn 50-60 million VND/month, while working as lecturers or faculty managers at universities earn only 15-30 million VND/month. Meanwhile, universities really need this team to be able to open majors or increase enrollment targets. Therefore, as soon as a PhD applies, some schools want to recruit immediately."

However, according to this doctor, not all universities find it easy to recruit PhDs and masters. Many schools, especially public schools, have a very strict process of recruiting and evaluating the quality of lecturers before officially recruiting.

Mr. Hai's doctorate was confirmed by the University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, to not be in the school's diploma data.

IS QUALITY LIFTING?

An officer working at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City National University, also said that a person without a doctorate or master's degree like Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai, if he has experience working at an enterprise in the IT field, can still guide students. "But it only stops at the level of sharing experiences outside the enterprise to expand and clarify the ideas discussed in terms of basic theory. Those shares are only considered to enrich the lecture. The most frightening thing is that if he has not been properly trained and stands in class, teaching in some places correctly and many places incorrectly, it is very dangerous for the quality of training," this officer shared.

This official believes that the person using the fake degree is at fault, but allowing a fake master or doctorate to enter the teaching staff is a consequence of a process of letting quality float. "That shows that some training institutions seem to be focusing on increasing recruitment sources without paying attention to the team and professional resources. The process of ensuring and controlling training quality has not been focused on," the official added.

According to this official, the recruitment of permanent lecturers is already so loose, and the invitation of guest lecturers is even more loose. "In majors with many students and need guest lecturers, schools almost do not check their qualifications or quality, they just need to see that the person has taught at a certain school, is working at a certain business, or knows someone, then they can accept him as a guest lecturer. The same goes for inviting lecturers to guide graduation theses. Currently, there are departments where 100% of students do graduation projects, so there are not enough lecturers to guide them, so they have to invite more from outside to follow the process," this official shared.

Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai used to be a full-time and part-time lecturer at many universities and colleges in Ho Chi Minh City.

Meanwhile, Professor Le Bao Long, National Research Institute, University of Quebec (Canada), said that in Canada, the recruitment of lecturers in any field is extremely strict. "PhD candidates entering the school must submit the original degree for the school to check, that they have a PhD with a supervisor, and have scientific publications. All are checked to see if it is correct as declared in the application. In addition, there must be recommendation letters from at least 3 famous professors. The professors who write the letters will state in the letter how they know and evaluate this candidate, how valuable the works are...", Mr. Long informed.

Professor Long said that because some schools in Vietnam need enough lecturers with master's and doctoral degrees to enroll students and do not care about quality, the incident of "fake doctor" Nguyen Truong Hai happened.

Professor Dr. Hoang Van Kiem, former Principal of the University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City National University, also raised the issue: "This is a wake-up call for recruiting lecturers and reviewing the quality of training at schools today. It is clear that the management of lecturers at some schools is very loose, especially in "hot" majors where many schools open majors, leading to a shortage of masters and doctors. Recruiting without checking degrees or assessing whether the actual teaching level meets the requirements or not, may leave behind consequences that are difficult to overcome."

Accordingly, Professor Kiem proposed that the Ministry of Education and Training must inspect and review all permanent teaching staff at schools. Which cases have fake doctoral and master's degrees, which cases have "bought" or borrowed degrees, which cases have foreign degrees from schools in the US, the Philippines... but have not been recognized in Vietnam. "If we inspect, there will certainly be many problems," Professor Hoang Van Kiem commented.

Co-authoring a scientific paper with many famous people?

When submitting his scientific resume and application to become a lecturer to the schools, Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai declared that he had researched a series of topics and projects. Regarding articles published in international journals, Mr. Hai mentioned 4 articles. Notably, these articles were co-authored with many people, including famous people: Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Anh Duc, former Vice Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University, now Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Hai Quan, Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University; Professor, Dr. Hoang Van Kiem, former Principal of the University of Information Technology (Ho Chi Minh City National University)...

Professor Hoang Van Kiem, who was named by Mr. Hai in the joint article (Efficient large-scale multi-class image classification by learning balanced trees. Computer vision and image understanding, 156, 151-161), confirmed: "This is a "super-fraudulent" profile. I affirm that I do not share any article with Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai."

Similarly, Associate Professor Dr. Lam Quang Vinh, Head of the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City National University, affirmed: "From the research information provided in the scientific resume of Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai, we have reviewed and confirmed that this person's name is not included in any topic of Ho Chi Minh City National University."

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Proposed solutions to overcome the consequences

Up to this point, Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai has used fake master's and doctoral degrees to apply to more than a dozen universities. Among them, Mr. Hai has become a full-time lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; a guest lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education, Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport (signed a probationary contract), Saigon University of Technology (only guiding graduation thesis),FPT Polytechnic College...; a probationary position as deputy head of the IT department at Van Hien University, and was appointed head of the IT department at Vietnam Industry and Trade College...

"In my opinion, the schools that accept Mr. Nguyen Truong Hai as a lecturer must deal with the consequences. In theory, if a person uses a fake degree, all the results of the subjects, credits, and graduation theses... taught and instructed by this person must be reviewed. For students who have studied the subjects taught and graded by Mr. Hai, they need to be carefully reviewed, and may have to tutor or re-test if necessary, especially important subjects. As for the graduation project, the evaluation council can recognize it or invite 1 or 2 additional independent lecturers to evaluate it for objectivity," Professor Hoang Van Kiem suggested.

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