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On Summer 2018 three new Universities was successfully integrated in Voyage Platform that is now composed by a network of 6 Vietnamese Universities: the Hanoi University of Home Affairs, the Halong University and Hanoi Tourism college (the first entering the platfom on June 2018, the other two on July 2018). 

Below a brief description of the newcomers:

Hanoi University of Home Affairs. 

Founded in 1971 and spending many phases of its development, Hanoi University of Home Affairs (hereinafter HUHA) is a public university, directly under the management of Ministry of Home Affairs. HUHA has main functions of training and offering refresher courses for human resources of high quality at tertiary and post-tertiary level in such fields as State Management, Public Administration, Human Resource Management, and Archives & Records.

In the University Strategic Development Plan towards 2030, HUHA aims to fufill its missions: To offer good opportunities to every student to meet a various learning demand with muti-level and multi-disciplinary training forms; and to provide sufficient human resources for the public sector and for the society as a whole.

The University webpage is available at: http://truongnoivu.edu.vn/

Halong University

Halong University (HALOU) is a public university belonging to the People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province. Ha Long University currently has two campuses: The first campus is located in Uong Bi City and the second one is located in Ha Long City with more than 40 km distance. The school is established by multi-level and multidisciplinary. The school's mission is to provide highly qualified human resources in science, technology, economics, education and human society; Is a center for science research and technology transfer for socio-economic development of Quang Ninh province and the northern plain region. The school not only provides learning opportunities for young people in Quang Ninh but also attracts young people from all over the country for training and jobs. HALOU currently has 5,000 students studying in the fields of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Hotel Management, Restaurant Management and Catering Services, Traveling and Tour Guiding , Information technology, Aquaculture, Natural resources and environment management, English, Chinese, Japanese, Cultural Management, Social Work, Pedagogy and Arts…HALOU has been trying to provide good education programs for learners with the standard of students after graduation must have professional qualification, ability to work in foreign languages, adaptation to new scientific and technological advances and modern working environments with creative capability and high competitiveness, responsibility and international integration.

The University webpage is available at: https://uhl.edu.vn/

Hanoi Tourism College

Formerly known as Tourist Hotel Worker School, Hanoi Tourism College was founded on July 24, 1972 as the first national school to offer training in the tourism industry. The College provides professional training in all areas of hospitality and tourism from entry level positions through to management, as well as conducting research and providing advice in the area of socioeconomic development for the tourism industry. Since its foundation, Hanoi Tourism College has gained a reputation as a leading school in providing training for this industry. The College continues to provide its students with solid industry knowledge, strong professional skills, foreign language skills and pride in Vietnam’s growing tourism industry. Hanoi Tourism College provides students with the opportunity to participate in international competitions including ASEAN and world skills contests. The high results achieved at such competitions demonstrate the professional training provided by the school. Many of the teaching staff have been trained abroad and hold high level qualifications in industry related fields. Thousands of alumina is now demonstrating the knowledge are skills learnt at the College through employment gained at both entry level and management in a variety of tourism industry sectors. This marks the achievements of generation to generation of the teaching staff and students of the College, the driving force for the “HTC” train to continue moving forwards. Currently, HTC is consists of 8 faculties: Hotel and restaurant management, Travel and tour guide management, Food production management, Finance and Accounting for tourism, Foreign languages for tourism, Fundamental education subjects, Industrial core subjects, Information technology for tourism.

The University webpage is available at: http://www.htc.edu.vn/rss/index.php

The joining of the new universities is an important achievement for the Voyage Project, a sign of interest towards the web platform and a new opportunity for the graduates' insertion in Vietnamese labour market and for the Vietnamese companies to hire qualified graduates in state management, administration  and human resources fields, toursim, science research and technology. 

The integration of the Universities was technically done by the IT staff of the HANU University, hosting the Voyage Platform in Vietnam.

In August 18^th 2016, HIZA and Trade Union hold the seminar to train the labour decrees for more 300 senior managers and human resource managers of many companies in Hanoi industrial and export processing zones. Besides, Mr. Nguyen Dan Tam – Deputy Chief of HIZA’s office introduce general information about VOYAGE project to the senior managers. He highly focused on 6 objectives of the projects: Implement the Vietnamese database of university graduates; Develop the Vietnamese Graduates Profile Survey; Design the Vietnamese Graduates Job condition Survey;Set up a Qualifies System of Vietnamese Graduates Placement; Draft the best practice guidelines & common learning for internship promotion and skill needs’ monitoring. 

In addition, he also emphasized three main benefits from the project for Vietnamese companies, as follows:

• Availability of CV regularly updated by graduates;
• CV search facilities for human resources selection and recruitment purposes;
• Possibility to check and compare profiles of graduates to hire.  

Through his general introduction about the project, many senior managers are interested in the project. They said that employers have faced many difficulties in labor recruitment. Many companies have been losing a lot of effort and money to recruit qualified employees. Then, they take the extra time to train them. 

GIỚI THIỆU VỀ DỰ ÁN NÂNG CAO NĂNG LỰC TIẾP CẬN THỊ TRƯỜNG LAO ĐỘNG CHO SINH VIÊN CÁC TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC VIỆT NAM’ TẠI HỘI NGHỊ TẬP HUẤN CÁC NGHỊ ĐỊNH CỦA CHÍNH PHỦ HƯỚNG DẪN THỰC HIỆN BỘ LUẬT LAO ĐỘNG

Ngày 18/08/2016, Ban Quản lý các Khu công nghiệp và Chế xuất Hà Nội (Ban quản lý) phối hợp với Công đoàn các Khu công nghiệp và Chế xuất Hà Nội tổ chức hội nghị tập huấn các nghị định của Chính Phủ hưởng dẫn thực hiện Bộ Luật lao động. Hội nghị thu hút gần 300 các nhà quản lý và nhân sự của các doanh nghiệp trong khu công nghiệp và chế xuất trên địa bàn thành phố. 

Tại hội nghị, bên cạnh việc tập huấn và trao đổi với các doanh nghiệp về các nghị định của Chính Phủ liên quan tới Bộ luật lao động, Ông Nguyễn Đan Tâm  - Chánh văn phòng  đại diện Ban quản lý đã giới thiệu tổng quan về dự án ‘Nâng cao năng lực tiếp cận thị trường lao động cho sinh viên các trường đại học Việt Nam’ – VOYAGE.   

Ông Nguyễn Đan Tâm đã trao đổi với các doanh nghiệp về 6 mục tiêu cụ thể mà dự án hướng tới:

- Xây dựng cơ sở dữ liệu cử nhân tốt nghiệp đại học tại Việt Nam;

- Thực hiện khảo sát hồ sơ năng lực cử nhân Việt Nam;

- Kết nối cử nhân tôt nghiệp với các doanh nghiệp tại Việt Nam và Châu Âu;

- Thiết kế chương trình khảo sát điều kiện việc làm cho cử nhân Việt Nam;

- Xây dựng hệ thống kiểm định chất lườn đào tạo cử nhân tại Việt Nam;

- Dự thảo các hưỡng dẫn thực hành tôt nhất, tìm kiếm cơ hội  thực tập và nâng cao kỹ năng cho sinh viên.

Bên cạnh đó, ông Nguyễn Đan Tâm cũng nhấn mạnh tới những 3 lợi ích chính mà dự án mang lại cho các doanh nghiệp, đó là:

- Được tiếp cận với cơ sở dữ liệ của ứng viên triển vọng thường xuyên được cập nhật;

- Được sử dụng công cụ tìm kiềm để lựa chọn nhân sự phù hợp;

- Có thể kiểm tra và so sánh hồ sơ của cá ứng viên trước khi tuyển dụng.

Thông qua phần giới thiệu tổng quan về dự án, nhiều nhà quản lý và nhân sự tham gia tại hội nghị bày tỏ rất mong dự án VOYAGE tiếp tục phát triển và hoàn thành các mục tiêu đặt ra để có thể hỗ trợ cho họ nhiều hơn trong việc tiếp cận nguồn thị trường lao động có chất lượng cao.

The first day was dedicated to the research meeting, aimed at present the questionnaire developed within the project for carrying out the pilot Vietnamese graduates’ profile survey in the three Vietnamese partner universities. In addition to the development of the methodology for conducting the survey, the research day was focused on the related Quality Assurance Aspects in Vietnam. AlmaLaurea will work to transfer the know-how and good practices developed in its long-lasting experience, with the support of the European partner universities of Barcelona and Minho.

The second day saw the Project Steering Committee, a moment to share all aspects of management of the partnership with a focus on the future sustainability of the initiative in Vietnam.

May 27 saw the participation of the Voyage delegation to the annual meeting AECHE "Third Euro-Arab Conference on Higher Education"; an important moment of dissemination of the project Voyage to the Ministries and the Representatives of the Higher Education in the Euro-Mediterranean area.

The Voyage delegation included high representatives, researchers, teachers, experts in education and labor market from the Vietnamese Universities and the association of enterprises Hanoi Industrial Park. Among them: Nguyen Dinh Luan, Rector of Hanoi university; Vu Van San, President of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Institute; Tran Anh Tuan, Vice-President of Hanoi Park.

The kick off meeting of the Voyage Project - Opportunities for the young and graduates employability in Vietnam,took place in Bologna, on January 11-12 2016, with AlmaLaurea hosting more than 20 representatives from Vietnam Universities and business world, from the partner Universities of Barcellona, Minho and the Italian Partner University of Padua. The delegation  also saw the participation of institutional representatives from the 3 Vietnamese partner universities - the Vice Rector of Hanoi University Mr.Tran Quang Binh, the Rector of the National University of Art Education, Mr. Pham Le Hoa and the Vice-Rector of the Post and Telecommunication Institute Mr. Tran Quang and the Vice Chairman of the Management Board of Hanoi Park Center for Enterprice Support and Services. 

The cooperation project, coordinated by AlmaLaurea, is funded by the European Erasmus+ programme for a total of 500 thousand Euros over a period of three years. Aim of the project is to set up, first time in Vietnam, the online database of Vietnamese graduates, inspired by AlmaLaurea model, with all the curricula of partner universities that will promote a  better matching between job demand and supply. Thanks to the set up of such tool, it will be possible for the Vietnamese Universities to carry out surveys on the graduates’ profile and design the methodology to run employment condition survey in Vietnam.

AlmaLaurea has the task of transferring its know how and skills to the Vietnamese partners and local staff at all levels (from ITS to researchers and secretariat Staff) thus allowing the capacity building for long term project maintenance and functioning.  Such results will be achieved thanks also to the best practices in employability and quality assurance provided by the European Partners of Barcelona, Minho and Padua.

The creation, thanks to the project, of modern and sustainable tools based on the provision of updated information for the enhancement of university-enterprises partnership, is highly needed in Vietnam where, the education system has seen important development in the last 10 years with the number of schools doubled and an increase state expenditure (World Bank, 2014) and,  as regard to higher education, a marked increase in the number of graduates (Vietnam Statistics Office, 2014). Yet, as in other part of the word, graduates are facing the dual problem of increasing youth unemployment and a mismatch between graduates’ skills and employers’ requirement often ascribed to the poor quality of education (ICEF, 2014,).

Website: https://www.almalaurea.it/en/informa/news/2015/12/17/voyage-opportunities-young-and-graduates-employability-vietnam

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