Challenges for social work education in vietnam voice of social work students

Challenges of Social Work Education in Vietnam: The voice of social work students Tran Van Kham, PhD University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Hanoi, Vietnam Email: khamtv@ussh.edu.v

Challenges of Social Work Education

in Vietnam:

The voice of social work students

Tran Van Kham, PhD University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Hanoi, Vietnam Email: khamtv@ussh.edu.vn

Vietnam Social Work Education

2004: BA program

approved

2010: Action plan to develop social work professionally

2014

50 universities/colleges

Project number 32

• 2,340 billion VND

• 60,000 social workers by 2020 need

training

• 35,000 staff need professional education

• Focused groups: older, disabled people, orphan children, drug abused, etc

• How students assess the structure of

program? The rationality of structure in

different layers?

• How students assess the learning materials for social work education? The quality of

lecturers and social work staff?

• What are difficulties on doing fieldwork?

• What is student’s voice on prospects of

Vietnam social work education?

• Program structure:

– Positive feedbacks on Professional Courses

• Learning materials:

– Positive feedbacks

– Negative feedbacks on Skill Trainings

• Staff/Lecturers

– Well knowledge-based

– Less skill-prepared

• Prospects of professional social work

– Will be developed if it is changes in program and staff/lecturers/ support mechanism

– Required changes on social awareness on social work as profession

• Long term commitment to social work

– Both those graduate and undergraduate

students

• Opportunities

– Collaboration

– Training

• Challenges:

– Social awareness of this professional job, – learning materials,

– practicum places,

– staff and skills on supervisions

– the teaching staff on social work

• Continuing the tasks of increasing social

awareness on social work, and its application, roles on practice

• Reviewing and updating the program at all levels

• For academic institutions: to make the close

collaboration with regional and international

ones

• For staff in institutions: Upgrading the

knowledge, skills and professions on social work

Thank you

Tran Van Kham

Vietnam National University-Hanoi, Founder of Vietnam Social Work Network’s website at http://socialwork.vn

Email: khamtv@ussh.edu.vn