12 doctoral training programs of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities were approved to participate in project 89

On January 18, 2019, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 89/QD-TTg approving the Project to improve the capacity of lecturers and managers of higher education institutions to meet the requirements of comprehensive fundamental innovation in education and training in the 2019-2030 period (Project 89).

According to Project 89, the specific goal of the project is to train about 10% of university lecturers at the doctoral level, ensuring quality and a reasonable structure, of which 7% of lecturers are trained full-time abroad; 3% of lecturers are trained domestically and in coordination between Vietnamese universities and foreign universities; striving for 80% of lecturers of schools in the fields of culture, arts and physical education and sports to have a master's degree or higher, trained full-time abroad and domestically to meet regional and world quality standards, and a reasonable structure.

According to calculations by the Ministry of Education and Training, to achieve the project's objectives, it is expected that in the next 10 years, it will be necessary to train about 7,300 lecturers with doctoral degrees and over 300 lecturers in the fields of culture, arts, physical education and sports with master's degrees.