Assist students in accessing labor market in industry 4.0

rt to students in accessing the labor market. 
To do this, the university needs to address the following issues:
¾ About the lecturers: The task of universities in the coming period is to 
train information technology experts fully, actively equip students with the 
digital knowledge and related skills to meet the social needs of industry 4.0. 
Teachers themselves need to master their information technology related to their 
field of teaching. 
¾ About teaching activities: Teachers need to create more appropriate and 
democratic social contexts for students so that they can debate real issues 
surrounding their lives. Right from the university, students must be assisted in 
accumulating knowledge about information technology, timely updating and 
being able to apply the latest technological advances of the world. It is also 
essential to equip students with foreign language and soft skills. Most traditional 
classes now have a disadvantage of high costs, limited space, etc. In the future, 
these can be replaced by online classes, virtual classrooms and quality control 
can be made by support tools such as cyberspace connection. Simpler, lecturers 
can assign homework to groups of students and ask them apply information 
technology, as well as posting for the pre-class so that the quality of the 
presentation is guaranteed. 
¾ About the curriculum: Most of the current curriculum is not flexible, the 
content is not suitable with the demand and the labor market trend in industry 
4.0. Universities are under pressure when training programs have to be met 
highly specialization in a certain field and interdisciplinary like information 
technology, digital, networking. In addition, the curriculum is also under pressure 
of lacking indispensable skills such as system thinking, ability to synthesize, 
ability to link between real and virtual worlds, creativity, teamwork skills,
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interdisciplinary collaboration capacity. Therefore, the curriculum should be 
designed more diverse, more specific and meet the needs of learners better. 
¾ About learning environment: The learning environment is very important 
for cognitive processes so the ability to design and layout work spaces for 
students can lead to a new thinking. The learning space needs to be more 
diversified. Instead of a classroom with walls and tables, traditional labs or 
simulation rooms, learners can experience cyberspace, interact in real conditions 
through software and network. The campus should also be arranged open so that 
students can use the space for meeting, discussing and communicating. Students' 
leisure space also needs to be concerned to facilitate communication and 
knowledge sharing. Learning space plays an important role in creating and 
stimulating, whereas creativity is an important basis for accessing and developing 
knowledge in the 4.0 era. 
¾ About training methods: Training methods should be changed with the 
strong application of information technology, digital technology and network. 
Online training, virtual training, simulation, digitizing lectures ... will be the 
coming training trend. This requires universities to have a good preparation of 
teaching resources especially lecturers, building learning spaces, teaching and 
learning equipment. To support students in accessing the labor market, the 
university needs to organize annual events like exploring knowledge of 
information technology. From these activities, lecturers and students can have 
knowledge of information technology from enterprises’ sharing. This is a great 
way to increase the quality of teaching and learning, and also deepen the 
relationship between universities and businesses. Universities also need to 
facilitate to 3rd and 4th year students practice at enterprises. So that students can 
get acquainted with the new work and technology. The signing of student 
exchange agreements with foreign countries should be replicated as well. 
¾ About training support activities: The learning materials system as well as 
the library should not only be considered as a specific location. Instead of that, 
they should be exploited everywhere with simple operation. Computer systems 
should be equipped enough to assist students in accessing online information. For 
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the best training support, the university needs to establish and maintain an online 
information system to support students timely. 
¾ Strengthening the links with businesses and international universities:
universities with typical technique should strengthen these links to build 
laboratories. These labs are not only a place for students to practice but also an 
in-depth research center at the enterprise's request to create products and services 
in order. With universities less technology-specific, strengthening this 
cooperation is also necessary to accelerate the acquisition of new knowledge of 
industry 4.0. It depends on the specific capabilities and conditions that they can 
select the appropriate content and form of link. Research collaboration will 
provide universities with significant funding to increase science and technology 
resources and improve the quality of training. 
Setting up and/or strengthening education center 4.0 and/or student support 
center: Each university should have a 4.0 education center and/or a student 
support center. In particular, the 4.0 education center is prepared to take the 
initiative in responding to challenges and catch up the opportunities from 
industry 4.0. The student support center is designed to provide timely support to 
students in their studies and life, as well as providing advice and especially to 
connect students to employers and labor market. At present, many universities 
are highly concerned in student support and even have student support center but 
their size and feature are not matched and be multiple integrated mutually. These
centers haven’t helped students much in connecting and finding jobs. Besides, 
some universities haven’t got the so called “Student support center”. For 
example, the National Economics University has a Department of Political 
Affairs and Student Management but this unit does not support students much,
especially in supporting to access job opportunities. Other departments have 
specialized efforts to support students with job opportunities, but it is still very 
fragmented and ineffective. So the solution that student support centers must play 
a key role not only in supporting students’ daily problem and job connection but 
also connecting students actively to employers and giving other career support 
such as soft skills learning, counseling and career orientation. 
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¾ Forming a new university model - business university: Promote the 
partnership between the university and enterprises to change from "teaching what 
available" to "teaching what the market needs”, or even "teaching what the 
market will need”. In fact, this solution has been mentioned and concerned but so 
far few universities perform. On the opposite side, there are businesses set up a
professional training in university which is closely linked between theory and 
practice and have a commitment for job. However, this model has not really been 
implemented widely. 
1.4. Recommendations 
Although we conducted interviews with a very small group of NEU students, the 
evidence from the universities’ role and situation of supporting students to the 
labor market mentioned above indicated that higher education has a key role in 
helping students access to the labor market better. And students need to have 
support from the university for the job opportunity better. The goal of education 
is to train qualified labor to meet the development requirements of the nation,
especially in the era of industry 4.0. To do this, the State should continue to 
improve the law system to create a better environment for human resource 
development and encouraging the development of high quality human resources.
The special policies for leading scientists must be concerned also. And the State 
should have policies to support the establishment and development of innovative 
and startup nursery in universities. These nurseries will be closely linked to 
universities and businesses using high quality human resources. They could 
become the beginning of ideas, creativity, and give the research results in used. 
Conclusion 
To support and connect students to the labor market, universities need to promote 
the key linkages between school - managers – entrepreneurs so that innovation,
creativity and productivity in the knowledge society could be enabled. In order to 
adapt to the changes of industry 4.0, teaching and learning activities need to be 
carried out at all times and in all places so that learners could be personalize and 
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completely decide on learning what they need. Universities are not only a place 
for training and researching but also a center for innovating and solving practical 
problems. Moreover, universities should be the place brings big value for society 
and especially have the best support for students to access to the labor market. 
The universities are not only framed in the walls with tables, classrooms or 
laboratories but also be expanded in conjunction with businesses and the labor 
market to become an educational ecosystem. It is believed that students can 
access to the labor market and get a job easier with the great support of the 
university. 
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