- Young University Staff Development in Context of Industrial Revolution 4.0. - Từ khóa: cách mạng công nghiệp 4.0, giảng viên trẻ, cải cách giáo dục Abstract: This article aims at presentation the current state of quality of faculty members in Vietnamese universities and proposes several solutions to develop young lecturers’ staff facing urgent needs to reform totally the country’s education system in order to cope with challenges ahead and to explore potential opportunities brought about by the 4th industrial revolution. - Key words: industrial revolution 4.0, young lecturer, educational reform. - Due to that, the role of young academic staff becomes more and more vital and the enhancement of the quality of staff, especially young staff is a critical issue that should be put on top of the agenda in strategy and policy for national education development. - Comparative analysis of the domestic and international staff of academic teachers In most Vietnamese universities most of lecturers are holding master degree as the input requirement for a new academic staff member is just only master degree with “very good” or “good” classification. - Before presenting solutions aiming at developing potential and competencies of young staff of academic teacher in Vietnam we should analyse and investigate more about the need as well as the urgence of total education reform in context and under pressure of the 4th industrial revolution. - The 4th industrial revolution – challenges and opportunities The term “industrial revolution 4.0” or “the 4th industrial revolution” has been mentioned for the first time in 2011 at the Hannover fair presenting industrial program 4.0 to boost Germany’s traditional branch of automation and mechanics. - Currently the 4th industrial revolution stems from the 3th industrial revolution, connecting all techologies together, deleting the boundary between physical world, virtual world and biological living world. - According to Klaus Schwab, the speed of change of the 4th industrial revolution is unprecedented. - Compering to previous revolutions, the 4th revolution develops with not linear but exponential speed. - It premonish the transformation, both extensively and intensively, of the production, business ans management systems worldwide. - -Social Network -Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning -Internet of Things -Big Data -3D Printer -Virtual Reality -Cloud and Cognitive Computing -Driveless cars, Drones -Smart robot, factory and city -E-Learning, telemedicine Source: [6], [7] Currently IR 4.0 is taking place in America, Europe and parts of Asia (Japan, South Korea) first. - Beside new opportunities IR 4.0 also puts forward many challenges for humankind. - Table 2 presents those opportunities and challenges related with IR 4.0 for organizations, economy and society. - Opportunities and challenges due to the 4th industrial revolution Opportunities Challenges 1 Many new professions, new jobs and new Instability, unequality, imbalan- entepreneurship chances ce in the labor market. - Source: Author’s synthesis Facing the opportunities and challenges mentioned above what national governments, businesses and entrepreneurs can do to success and gain sustainable competitive advantages in context of upcoming IR 4.0? Next, what is the role of universities and its (young) staff will be for the other entities in the economies. - So all the hopes are put on younger tech- generations to accept new things, to welcome and foster new ideas and to promote innovative changes initiated by IR 4.0 and intergrative trends spilled over all around the world. - In order for younger generations of teaching staff to carry out this serious mission and to fulfill the expectations of the society they should be trained and developed accordingly in order to gain suitable competencies include knowledge, skills and attitudes. - Solutions for development of young staff of academic lecturers in a response to the need of total education reformation in relation with the 4th industrial revolution How to make tertiary education and its actors (young staff of academic lectures) main driving force to propel socio-economic development in such limited and less favorable condition of Vietnam ? Hereafter are several solutions proposed by author to enhance young academic staff’s potentials and competencies for the universities to fulfill their expectation, execute their mission and carry out their function standing in front of urgent need to reform the whole education system in order to explore the existing oppotunities and to deal with challenges of irreversible trend of education integration and ocurring IR 4.0. - c) International joint publication and carrying out research – today in a world of IR 4.0 nothing can be done alone, joint publication and co-research with foreign partners (professors, professional practical researchers) is precondition to enhance research potential of young lecturers, researchers at the same time, with a mutual benefits. - e) Integrating newest technology with educational processes – In current context of the IR 4.0 without the help of technology nothing can be done. - All cultural values and identities of the university are developing over time and should be gradually transformed due to integration and internationalization and under impact of quickly evolving IR 4.0. - g) Balanced and sustainable development – In a world of lightning changes, innovation, transformation, reformation in terms of both technology (IR 4.0) and sociology (however less intensive changes in different fields and different levels and corners of the society) a balanced and sustainable approach to development is recommended and needed to calm down the radical changes in order to make up sociological and individual changes with the latest and newest technological developments. - Nguyen Hoang Tien: Challenges and opputunities for enterprises in the world of the 4th industrial revolution. - National conference on “Accounting, auditing and Vietnam economy in context of the 4th industrial revolution Quy Nhon University, Quy Nhon, Binh Đinh