THE REAL STATUS AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING STAFF’S COMPETENCE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM

In the current context of integration and knowledge explosion, Vietnam is in on the way to renew the higher education system. This is even more urgent when we are at a very low starting point in comparison to the region and in the world. The article presents measures to improve the teaching staff’s competence to meet the demand for higher education reform such as: (1) Legal solution; (2) Solution to improve the lecturers’ rights and obligations; (3) Solution for attracting and creating lecturer resources; (4) Solution to lecturers’ recruitment; (5) Solution to policies on lecturers’ treatment; (6) Solution to lecturers’ training and retraining; (7) Solution to the lecturers’ checking, remarks and evaluation. Therefore, there are many things to be synchronously implemented in the education renewal strategy, but the rapid development of high quality human resources with the development and application of science and technology need to be taken into leading consideration.