Waste of talented people
Weaknesses in using and training young talented people and young leaders are the cause of brain drain. Secretary of the Youth Union and lecturer of the Law School in HCM City Dang Tat Dung frankly expressed his opinion, “We do not run short of young talented people and young leaders but we fail to use them effectively. The waste can be referred to in three respects: a waste of developing the talented, a waste of creativity of young talented people and a waste of talented effort and contribution.
There are many excellent students winning major national and international prizes annually but no one appears again at scientific forums. They have often spared no effort to develop scientific theories, plans and theses, which are later heaped up in document storage areas without being put into practical use.
In fact, up to 70 percent of university graduates are working in the areas incompatible to what they learnt before, causing not only a waste of time, effort and money for students but also a waste of “seed” talented people for society.
Many localities have attracted talented people but in the end such people often decide to work for foreign-invested enterprises as they were not patient enough to serve their period of probation.
Mr Dung said that the Youth Union should rapidly devise “Talented people” and “Human Resources” strategies to help the Party and State nurture talented people for national development.
Participants at the 2007 Vietnam Young Scientists’ Forum held recently in Hanoi emphasised the need to build a strategy for using talented people effectively such as abolishing experientialism, changing the process of nominating State employees and providing opportunities for young people to practise themselves as young National Assembly (NA) deputies who can try to deal with national issues.
Youth must be a driving force
Dr. Nguyen Manh Cuong, Head of the Organising Board of the 2007 Vietnam Young Scientists’ Forum said one of the biggest weaknesses in the country’s administration lies behind the inappropriate, overlapping and contradictory legal system. Corruption, irresponsibility and bureaucracy of civil servants has become a common occurrence while relations between people and the administration are conducted by rule and order.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), as many as 131 kinds of fees are still being applied to farmers. However, administrative reform is a difficult and complicated task, which should have been implemented for a long time. It is essential to count the youth as a social force, which has the advantages of physical strength, intelligence and the ability to acquire new acknowledge and apply advanced technology. Therefore, young people will be a key social force, which will help reinforce administrative reform.
However, according to a report from the Youth Union, youth union staff’s role and capability remain poor as they failed to build an effective model for administrative reform.
In the face of the situation, Mr Cuong proposes some measures for the Youth Union to carry out in the near future such as working to change current constraints, as well as supervising and highlighting youth’s role in administrative reform. In addition, the State should collect opinions on administrative reform from young people in order to work out appropriate policies aimed at attracting young intellectuals to the administrative apparatus and using them effectively and reasonably.
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