Preparing soft skills for students has been being a matter of great concern to both society and the education industry. Soft skills are an essential factor for the success and happiness of each individual. Many decades ago, the weakness of soft skills of Vietnamese students have been warned by educational organizations, businesses and domestic and foreign experts. Although knowledge that is considered as a necessary condition during the learning process; it is still not a sufficient condition for students who want to get a desired job. Nowadays, soft skills training activities are quite popular in almost universities and it is one of requirements for student’s graduation. However, these training activities are different in each university. In this study, from the practical experience in training soft skills of other universities, the authors recommend some basic solutions for integrating soft skills into main subjects in the specialized knowledge teaching process.

This paper assesses the comprehensive macroeconomic picture of the world and Vietnam in 2017 and forecasts the outlook for 2018, and then making some policy implications for Vietnam. The world economy in 2017 is considered to be the most prosperous since 2011, thanks to the steady growth of key economies, bounced global trade, and favorable global financial conditions. However, as slow and uncertain global investment growth as well as many unpredictable factors in US government policy and Brexit, and political risks from tensions of the Korean Peninsula, 2018 will continue to witness unpredictable developments in the global economy. Faced with that situation, together with internal difficulties in the country, Vietnam should have flexible solutions, high determination and act in a drastic way in order to achieve the objectives on the economic growth and inflation as outlined. In addition, Vietnam should continue to promote the trade facilitation activities, the improvement of the bu...

The article introduces the basic understanding of the marine economy and why humankind has to turn to the sea and the ocean in the 21st century, sea and ocean use, and approaches to exploitation and governance of ocean, marine, coastal and island economy for sustainable development. It also analyses international and regional lessons learned, the actual situation of marine economic growth in Vietnam in the past 30 years, some management and exploitation solutions (integrated management, ecological security, international cooperation,...) for socioeconomic development, sovereignty protection and territorial security in the East Vietnam Sea in the current complex context.

Bài viết này phân tích các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến gánh nặng bảo hiểm xã hội của các doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa tại Việt Nam. Nghiên cứu sử dụng phương pháp GLS, MLE và Bayes để kiểm định các giả thuyết từ bộ dữ liệu điều tra doanh nghiệp của Tổng cục Thống kê giai đoạn 2010 – 2016. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy đòn bẩy tài chính, quy mô, năng suất lao động và kết cấu tài sản có tác động đến gánh nặng bảo hiểm xã hội trong các doanh nghiệp nêu trên. Chính vì thế, các doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa cần thiết phải củng cố quy mô và gia tăng năng suất lao động để đảm bảo khả năng vừa thực hiện tốt chính sách bảo hiểm xã hội vừa tối ưu hóa lợi ích trong hoạt động sản xuất kinh doanh.