Army Officer Training College 2: Improving training quality to meet requirements in new situation

From August 19 to 21, the Party Committee of Army Officer Training College 2 (Nguyen Hue University, located in Tam Phuoc Ward, Dong Nai Province) will organize its 16th Congress, term 2025-2030.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Son, Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of Army Officer Training College 2.

In an interview with Dong Nai Newspaper, Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Son, Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of the school, stated: With the motto "Unity, democracy, innovation, creativity, development", the 16th Congress of the school's Party Committee will fully implement the prescribed contents. In particular, it will promote the tradition of a heroic unit, building a clean and strong Party Committee, a comprehensively strong "exemplary and typical" school, focusing on improving the quality of cadre training, meeting the requirements of building a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern army...

Comprehensive results

🔴 According to the Lieutenant General, what are the outstanding results achieved under the leadership of the Party Committee of Army Officer Training College 2 over the past term?

- In the 2020-2025 term, the Party Committee of the college led to achieve comprehensive results in all goals and targets set by the resolution. Among them, many targets were exceeded. Specifically, on average, over 94% of its graduates achieved good or excellent results annually (exceeding by 24.3%); 100% of postgraduate students graduated, of which over 99.6% achieved good or excellent results; 100% of management cadres and lecturers had university degrees or higher, of which over 65.5% have postgraduate degrees. The school's Party Committee determined its leadership should focus on making breakthroughs in 3 areas to achieve efficiency...

At the same time, it led to thoroughly grasp the resolutions, conclusions, directives, and regulations of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense; closely followed the functions, tasks, and practical situation of the school; had many drastic leadership and direction policies and measures, comprehensively implemented, and completed and exceeded most of the targets set by the Resolution of the 15th Congress of the school's Party Committee.

The quality of education - training and scientific research is increasingly substantive; the school proves strong in terms of politics and ideology; combat readiness is maintained, and regularity and discipline management gain much progress. The leadership capacity and combat strength of Party committees and organizations have been enhanced, the Party Committee has achieved cleanliness and strength, and the school is comprehensively strong, "exemplary and typical"...

🔴 Could Lieutenant General share more specifically about the results of leading the implementation of the 3 breakthrough areas?

- Along with leading to achieve comprehensive results in all targets set by the resolution, the school's Party Committee determined to focus on 3 breakthrough areas: Improving the quality of education - training and scientific research; building regularity, strictly observing State laws and military discipline, ensuring safety; enhancing the leadership capacity and combat strength of Party committees and organizations at all levels.

All these 3 areas achieved outstanding results, creating clear changes in the school's teaching, training, and combat readiness activities. The quality of education - training has been enhanced and is increasingly stable; the results of exams, tests, and graduation for all types of students are in line with the  "3-substantive" spirit (substantive teaching, substantive learning, substantive evaluation of results), thus exceeding the targets set by the resolution, and the percentage of excellent students is increasing.

Scientific research ensured good quality; while the pool of educators were recognized as People's Teachers, professors, associate professors, and principal lecturers, meeting the targets set by the resolution. 5 ministerial-level projects were accepted; both of Dong Nai provincial-level project and Ho Chi Minh City-level project achieved excellent results; 43 departmental-level projects and initiatives, 2 General Political Department-level projects; compiled 100 ministerial-level documents and textbooks; 174 school-level projects and initiatives; 231 grassroots-level projects and initiatives...

The percentage of students graduating with good or excellent results increased. One comrade achieved the title of People's Teacher and professor; 3 comrades achieved the title of associate professor; 18 comrades earned the title of senior lecturer, and 151 main lecturers…

The Party Committee led the implementation of many tasks and solutions to make breakthroughs in building regularity, strictly observing State laws and military discipline, and ensuring safety. Over 90% of agencies, units, and faculties achieved comprehensively strong, "exemplary and typical" criteria, an increase of more than 11% compared to the previous term.

The Party Committee focused on many breakthrough tasks and solutions to enhance the leadership capacity and combat strength of Party committees and organizations at all levels. The quality of thoroughly understanding and implementing resolutions has seen many positive changes; maintaining the principle of democratic centralism, emphasizing self-criticism and criticism; internal unity and high consensus. The Party Committee is strong in politics, ideology, organization, ethics, and personnel, leading the entire school to successfully fulfill all assigned tasks...

Breakthrough in improving training quality

🔴 Lieutenant General, what are the key contents that the Party Committee of the Army Officer Training College 2 will focus on in the 2025-2030 term?

- In the 2025-2030 term, the Party Committee identifies to thoroughly understand and strictly implement resolutions, conclusions, directives, and regulations of the Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and guidelines from superior agencies. Leaders must make breakthroughs to improve the quality of education - training and scientific research; building a politically strong school with high combat readiness, solid regularity, strict discipline; ensuring good logistics, technical, and financial support for tasks, constantly improving the material and spiritual life of soldiers.

Enhancing the leadership capacity and combat strength of Party committees, Party organizations, and the contingent of cadres and Party members; preventing degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution," "self-transformation" within the organization; ready to undertake and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

The Party Committee of the Army Officer Training College 2 has set some specific targets to strive for, such as 100% of graduates ranking good or higher (with 1-2% achieving excellent performance). For other subjects, 100% of graduates meet the requirements or higher, with 85% or more achieving good or excellent performance; 100% of students are admitted to the Party; 100% of students are ready to undertake and complete tasks when assigned by the organization.

The school strives to have over 70% of cadres and lecturers with postgraduate degrees by 2030 (over 80% for lecturers alone); 100% of cadres and lecturers meet the foreign language proficiency standards as regulated; 3-5 lecturers achieve the title of excellent lecturer at the Ministry of National Defense level; 25% of educators achieve doctoral degrees…

In 3 years of implementing the motto "The quality of the school's training is the unit's combat readiness capability" launched by the Ministry of National Defense, the Army Officer Training College 2 has achieved impressive results in various aspects, such as training results for all subjects exceeding the resolution's targets. Practical teaching in English on some contents; researching, compiling, accepting, and transferring the application of many topics, initiatives, documents... contributing to enhancing the school's position and prestige. The Army Officer Training College 2 is a responsible member and head of Cluster 14, actively participating in the activities of Emulation Group 14, highly praised by the Dong Nai Provincial People's Committee…

🔴 Lieutenant General, to achieve the above-mentioned goals and targets, what solutions does the school's Party Committee focus on during its leadership?

- The school's Party Committee focuses on groups of solutions for implementing central political tasks: education - training, scientific research; building a comprehensively strong, "exemplary and typical," school, first and foremost, its must be politically strong; leading all aspects of work such as: military, inspection, legal, foreign affairs; logistics, technical, financial aspects to ensure the successful execution of tasks.

Leading the building of a transparent and strong Party Committee in politics, ideology, ethics; and in personnel organization. Strengthening inspection, supervision, enforcement of Party discipline, and protection of internal political security within the Party; innovating the leadership style, working methods, and conduct of leading cadres and commanders at all levels.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Son (4th from left), Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of Military Academy 2, commends outstanding students who win many awards at various levels.

In the 2025-2030 term, the school's Party Committee has identified 3 breakthrough areas: Breakthrough in promoting the development of science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation in education and training, and administrative reform. It will simultaneously and decisively implement solutions to improve the quality and effectiveness of regularization, discipline management, and safety assurance. The school will effectively fulfill the responsibility of setting an example for cadres, especially key cadres at all levels, in cultivating and training revolutionary ethics and performing their duties and responsibilities...

🔴 Thank you, Lieutenant General!

By: Nguyet Ha (interviewed)

Translated by: Mai Nga-Thu Ha