588 people were recognized as meeting the standards of professor and associate professor this year, a sharp increase compared to 383 people last year.
On November 6, the State Council of Professors announced a list of 588 qualified candidates for the title of professor (56 people) and associate professor (532 people). The list does not include candidates in the military and security sectors. Compared to last year, the number of recognized candidates increased by 205 people.
Compared to the initial list nominated by the Faculty Council this year (first round), 107 candidates were eliminated. In the next round, after the recommendations of the Faculty Councils of the industry and interdisciplinary, the list was further reduced by 18 people.
Regarding associate professors, after two rounds of review, the Medicine major had the largest decrease - 4 people; followed by Biology with 3 people; the Pharmacy, Transportation, History - Archeology - Ethnology, Construction - Architecture, Culture - Arts - Sports majors each had 1 person decrease.
In terms of quantity, the Economics sector dominates with 92 people, including 6 professors and 86 associate professors. Medicine ranks second with 6 professors and 57 associate professors recognized.
Two other interdisciplinary fields with 6 new professors are Chemistry - Food Technology, Mechanics - Dynamics. Meanwhile, three fields/interdisciplinary fields have no one recognized as professor, including Linguistics, History - Archaeology - Ethnology, Literature.
In terms of age, the youngest professor is 39 years old, including Mr. Nguyen Dai Hai and Mr. Doan Thai Son, working at the Institute of Chemical Technology and the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; Mr. Tran Xuan Bach, lecturer at Hanoi Medical University.
The two youngest associate professors - 33 years old, both in the Economics department, are Mr. Le Thanh Ha, lecturer at the National Economics University and Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Nham from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.
List of recognized professors and associate professors in 2023
According to the current procedure, universities establish a basic Professorial Council to review applications. After approving the list of qualified candidates, the basic Council sends the results to the State Council.
The State Council assigns the Industry and Inter-Industry Councils to evaluate and eliminate those who fail to meet the standards. The State Council then reviews and approves the list of qualified candidates.
Like every year, the State Council of Professors this year also received some feedback about unqualified candidate profiles, and some candidates withdrew their profiles after two rounds of review. These cases were all carefully reviewed and verified, according to Tran Anh Tuan, Chief of Office of the State Council of Professors.
Since 2019, candidates for associate professor and professor must be the main author of 3-5 articles in journals listed in ISI, Scopus (a prestigious database system for publishing abstracts and citations of scientific articles) or other categories prescribed by the State Council of Professors. That is why in the past three years, the number of candidates proposed for recognition as professors and associate professors has been only about 450-550 people per year, a sharp decrease compared to the previous period. After the final round of review, about 60-70% of these candidates are officially recognized.
Lecturers who are professors or associate professors can extend their working time for a maximum of 5 years after retirement, if they are healthy and have the need; are given priority in assigning scientific and technological topics and projects... and have the necessary conditions to complete the task.
According to the 2021 Statistical Yearbook, out of 76,000 university lecturers, there are 682 professors (nearly 1%), 4,760 associate professors (over 6%) teaching full-time. The number of professors and associate professors is one of the conditions for schools to open postgraduate training programs (masters, doctorate).
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