Educating legal awareness for university students in the mid central provinces in the current period

1 INTRODUCTION The need of the study As a form of social awareness, it was born and existed together with class society, legal awareness plays a more increasingly important role in social development It reflects economic relations of society, first of which is social relations shown in law system The extent and effectiveness of the impact of legal awareness on social life partly depends on the spread and propagation of legal awareness on people in society, in general and students, in particular, in both breadth and depth side In order to build the law governed state successfully, the legal enforcement is important, however, the process of interpretation, guidance, promulgation, education and implementation of the Constitution and the law system There is a need to clarify that: “the dissemination, legal education must be conducted regularly, continually and at a higher level in order to help officials and citizens understand correctly and strictly obey the law to meet the requirements of forming a socialist law governed state of the citizens, by the people, for the people"1 In class society, most of higher education institutions must carry out educating legal awareness as: "Legal education in the educational institutions of the national system needs to be integrated in the curriculum of all levels of education and training; and it is a content in teaching programs at lower secondary education, high school, vocational education, higher education”2 Educating legal awareness in non law - majored universities is one of the measures or ways to educating legal awareness, in general and legal life, in particular Its task is to contribute to the training of students having good political and moral qualities a; comprehensive professional Central of secretariat, Directive No.32-CT/TW dated 12.09.2003 on enhancing the Party's leadership in the dissemination, legal education, raising people’s and personnel’s awareness of obey law, in 2003, page.1 Parliament of Viet Nam socialist republic, Common law, legal education, Nxb the National Political Publishing house, Ha Noi, 2012, page 2 knowledge, basically practical skills; the ability to work independently, being creative; living and working in accordance with the Constitution and law Mid-Central provinces are now having many favorable conditions for socio-economic development but it is still a limited area with a number of shortcomings and weaknesses in most fields More than ever, educating legal awareness for students in the universities in this region should be paid more proper attention to high-quality human resource development to serve socio-economic development, contribute to the process of industrialization and modernization of the country in general and of the Mid-Central provinces, in particular Due to these above reasons, the authors decided to choose the theme: “Educating legal awareness for university students in the Mid-Central Provinces in the current period” as the subject of his philosophical doctoral thesis with the hope of studying deeply legal awareness issue and can work out some measures to contribute to improve the legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces in the current period The purpose and duties of the research 2.1 Purpose: Clarifying legal awareness and its relationship with other forms of social awareness, clarifying legal awareness education and its importance for students; identifying the reality, some issues, orientations, solutions and recommendations to improve the quality of legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces nowadays 2.2 Duties: - Analyzing definition, content, structure, functions and role of legal awareness; its relationship with other forms of social awareness; content, methods, forms and requirements of enhancing legal awareness education for university students nowadays 3 - Analyzing and evaluating the impact factors, the achieved results, the inadequacies, the causes of limitations in recent years; raising the necessary requirements in educating legal awareness for students in the Mid-Central provinces in the coming time - Proposing orientations, solutions and recommendations to related parties in order to improve the effectiveness of educating legal awareness for university students in the Mid-Central provinces today Subjects and scope of the research 3.1 Subjects of the research: Legal awareness is considered as a form of social awareness in class society; legal awareness is a fundamental attribute of the competence and characteristics of students; educating legal awareness for students in the period of accelerated industrialization and modernization in the Mid-Central provinces today 3.2 Scope of the research - Legal awareness is studied under the perspective of historical materialism and legal awareness education for full-time students in the universities in the Mid-Central provinces currently - Educating legal awareness for student is related to many factors such as socio-economic resources; contents, programs, methods, forms and subjects of the education system in which, the author focuses on analyzing the factors that play a crucial role such as: law staff; contents, programs, methods of teaching and learning law subjects - The survey results of legal awareness education for students, the author draws general remarks, is the basis for the proposed orientations and solutions - Research data was obtained from 13 universities The data is updated mainly upto 2013, the study period lasted from 2010 till today Theoretical basis and research method 4.1 Theoretical basis: The main theoretical basis of the thesis is dialectical materialism and historical materialism, Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, our Party and Government’s viewpoints on legal awareness and legal awareness education 4.2 Research Methodology: The doctoral thesis applied some of the most common research methods such as: the logical and historical methods; comparison and contrast; analysis and synthesis; sociological investigation; evaluation methodology and document analysis New scientific contributions of the thesis Firstly, this doctoral dissertation helps to clarify the theoretical basis of legal awareness, the relationship between legal awareness and rule of law awareness, educating legal awareness for students and the urgency to strengthening it as a current demand in our country Secondly, it also helps identify the impact factors, evaluate the reality of educating legal awareness for students in universities in the MidCentral provinces recently and then raise some issues in educating legal awareness for students in this areas in the current period Thirdly, it propose orientations, measures and some suggestions for related parties to improve the quality of legal awareness education for university students in the in the Mid-Central provinces in the future The significance of the thesis 6.1 Scientific significance of the thesis - To contribute to deepen the theoretical background related to social awareness forms of Marxist-Leninist philosophy; definition, content, structure and role of legal awareness; the relationship between it and other social awareness - To contribute to the deepening of the Viet Nam Communist Party’s viewpoint on enhancing legal awareness education to meet the requirements of forming socialist and law governed state and radical and comprehensive innovation in higher education today 6.2 Practical significance of the thesis - Provide theoretical and practical basis, orientation, solutions and recommendations to improve the effectiveness of educating legal awareness for students - The doctoral thesis can be used as a reference for those study and teach philosophy, jurisprudence, subjects related to Social Sciences and Humanities; it can also be useful reference for managers, lecturers, university students, who promulgate and popularize law The structure of the research Besides required content, my dissertation consists of three main parts: Introduction, Content and conclusion which is clarified in chapters and 11 sections Chapter LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Studies related to legal awareness and legal awareness education for students as a current requirement in our country “The formation of conscious socialist law of individuals” by KIBelxki (1982), “The scientific basis for the development of consciousness and lifestyle according to the law” (Program KX.07.17, Institute of State and Law, 1995), “Law, politic, morality, and social legal awareness” by IV Diuriagin (1996), “The Spirit of the Laws” by Mongtexkio (1996), “Discussion of social contract” by Rutxo (2004), “The characteristics of the process of forming legal awareness in Vietnam today” by Dao Duy Tan (2000), “Some features of legal consciousness Vietnam” by Nguyen Thuy Van (2001), “The formation and development of legal awareness of the people in Mekong delta in terms of innovation in Vietnam now” by Ho Viet Tiep (2002), “The relationship between democracy and law” by Hoang Chi Bao and Tong Duc Thao (2011), “Legal education or legal awareness education” by Ngo Van's (2012) The dissertation continues to further clarify these issues: - The definition, structure, functions and role of legal awareness; the relationship between legal awareness and law governed awareness and other forms - The definition of legal awareness education and legal awareness education for students; subjects, objects, features, objectives, content, forms and methods of educating legal awareness for university students - The role of legal awareness education for students as a requirement of forming socialist law governed state and renovating higher education in our country nowadays 1.2 Studies related to the reality and existed issues in legal awareness education for students in Mid-Central provinces “The law and the state’s management” by Minogue Martin (1993), “Construction a lifestyle obeying to the law from the perspective of traditional history, building awareness and lifestyle according to the law” by Vu Minh Giang (1995), “Increasing legal awareness for administrative staff” by Le Dinh Khien (2002), “Democracy: state and society” by NM Voskresenskaia and NB Davletshina (2009), “Some theoretical and practical issues of legal education in the innovation” (Project of Ministry, Ministry of Justice, 2009), “Legal awareness with the implementation of democracy in rural areas in Vietnam today” by Le Xuan Huy (2010), “Human rights, the rights of citizens in the socialist law governed state in Vietnam” by Tran Ngoc Tang (2011), “Legal policy and legal awareness in Vietnam” by Nguyen Nhu Phat, “Comprehensive and fundamental innovation in training in the universities to meet the needs of industrialization and modernization” by Dang Van America (2011), “Educating law for administrative staff and civil servants in the context of forming socialist law governed state Vietnam” by Nguyen Quoc Suu.vv The thesis further clarifies the issue: the some factors related to conditions of this area which has impact on legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces; the reality of legal awareness education in the universities in the Mid- Central provinces in recent time; the existed issues raised in the legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces in the current period 1.3 The works related to the orientations and measures to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in Mid-Central provinces “Educating legal awareness in universities, professional schools and vocational training (not specialized in law) in our country today” by Dinh Xuan Thao (1996), “The reality and solutions to prevent law violations among students” by Dang Thanh Ngoc, “Developing high quality human resources for priority economic regions in the Middle area” by Ho Tan Sang (2011), “Training human resources for economic development for priority economic regions in the context of international economic integration” by Bui Quang Binh (2011), “The role of law in the forming of morality for political leaders in Vietnam today” by Nguyen Thi Thu Huong (2012), “The role of youth in disseminating and educating legality” by Central of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (2012), “The role of the law in the process of personality formation” by Dang Luc (2013) In conclusion, all of the above studies are important sources for the thesis author to clarify the following: - Clarifying the theoretical background of legal awareness and legal awareness education and education for students; its inevitable need to enhance legal awareness education for students in universities in Vietnam today - Clarifying the impact of the factors, the reality of legal awareness education for college students in the Mid-Central provinces in recent time; the existed issues of legal awareness education for students in MidCentral provinces today 8 - Orientation, measures and recommendations to related parties to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in the future Conclusion Chapter These domestic and abroad researches have obtained certain results of clarifying legal awareness and legal awareness education However, legal awareness and legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces haven’t been done in depth as philosophical doctoral thesis by any authors The thesis will focus on analyzing and clarifying these contents The dissertation contributes to clarify the impact factor, the existed issues in legal awareness education for students; proposed orientations, measures and recommendations to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in the Mid-Central provinces in the current period Chapter LAW AWARENESS AND LEGAL AWARENESS EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS AS A CURRENT REQUIREMENT IN OUR COUNTRY 2.1 Legal Awareness 2.1.1 Theoretical background for studying legal awareness The dissertation is based on the perspective of Marxism-Leninism to analyze the theoretical basis for issues related to legal awareness such as: 2.1.1.1 The origin and nature of awareness; 2.1.1.2 Dialectical relationship between infrastructure and superstructure; 2.1.1.3 Relationship between Social existence and legal awareness The analysis of these above concepts helps to clarify the main contents of the term legal awareness 2.1.2 Definition, content, structure, functions and role of legal awareness 2.1.2.1 Definition of legal awareness The dissertation analyzed different current views in terms of the concept legal awareness; pointed out the advantages and limitations of each view; it also analyzes the differences between legal awareness and rule of law awareness, etc Basing on the analysis of different viewpoint on legal awareness, the author also provided his own ideas on legal awareness: legal awareness is a form of social awareness, the overall perspectives, ideology, psychological laws; is people’s knowledge, attitudes and emotion with law, legal order; is the evaluation of the fairness or unfairness, correctness or incorrectness of the current law, legal or illegal behavior of citizens, state and social organizations 2.1.2.2 The content of legal awareness The dissertation analyzes the content of the concept of legal awareness: - Legal awareness is a specific form of social awareness in class and state society, legal awareness has nature of class and is derived from social existence and reflects social existence - Legal awareness is overall perspectives, ideology, psychological laws; legal awareness is a tight structured system composing of many constituent elements, each element in the system plays different roles and has different positions It includes the two most important factors: legal psychology and legal ideology - Legal awareness is people’s knowledge, attitudes and emotion with law and legal order; is the evaluation of the fairness or unfairness, correctness or incorrectness of the current law, legal or illegal behavior of citizens, state and social organizations 2.1.2.3 The structure of legal awareness The dissertation analyzes the structure of legal awareness, due to different basis of different division, which includes: Basing on the characteristics, properties and reflected methods, legal awareness includes legal psychology and legal system ideology; Basing on the 10 degree of reflection, the level of subject’s awareness of legal life in society, legal awareness includes common and scientific legal awareness; If basing on the subject, legal awareness includes legal awareness of individuals, social groups and the whole society 2.1.2.4 The function and role of legal awareness 2.1.2.4.1 The function of legal awareness: The research analyzed and clarified functions: awareness, modeling and behavioral adjustment 2.1.2.4.2 The role of legal awareness: The thesis analyzed some roles of legal awareness such as: the role of legal awareness in forming socialist law governed state; legal awareness contributes to build law system and develop legal sciences, contributing to law implementation and promoting socio-economic development; legal awareness helps to maintain national security and protect the country 2.2 Legal awareness education and legal awareness education for students 2.2.1 General view on legal awareness education 2.2.1.1 Definition of legal awareness education Basing on the analysis of the current views on the concept of legal awareness education, the research stated personal views on legal awareness educational concepts: Legal awareness education is an purposeful and organized activity conducted due to identified content, certain method and forms of legal awareness educational subjects, it affects legal awareness education recipients to form and provide them with knowledge systems of views, ideology, psychological laws; the level of knowledge, attitude and their feeling to law, legal order; help them evaluate the fairness, correctness of the current law system, legal acts of the citizens, state and social organizations 2.2.1.2 The content of legal awareness education The research analyzed the content of legal awareness education including legal awareness education in official programs; legal awareness education in extracurricular programs; legal fostering 11 activities, combining official education with extracurricular activities of the union 2.2.2 Legal awareness education for students 2.2.2.1 The concept of legal awareness education for students Basing on an analysis of the current views on the concept of legal awareness education for students, the research stated personal views on the concept of legal awareness education for students: Legal awareness education for students are oriented and organized activities, through specific methods and some common forms of training includes mostly formal, extra-curricular programs integrated with active movements of unions; to establish and provide them with knowledge systems of views, ideology, psychological laws; the level of knowledge, attitude and their feeling to law, legal order; help them evaluate the fairness, correctness of the current law system, legal acts of the citizens, state and organizations in society and in accordance with the characteristics of the field of training linking to students’ professional knowledge 2.2.2.2 Subject and object of legal awareness education for students 2.2.2.2.1 The subject: to be seen from two perspectives: university educational institution and lecturer of law, legal reporters 2.2.2.2.2 Objects: within the scope of the study, objects were identified as full-time university students in universities in the Mid-Central provinces 2.2.2.3 Features of legal awareness education for students The study analyzed four basic characteristics of legal awareness education with main subjects are students whose perceptions are in progress of maturation; there is a need to have suitable contents, methods and forms; it also need to be conducted regularly, continually and variously; legal awareness educational content needs to suit with each student 2.2.2.4 The goal of legal awareness education for students 12 In addition to common goals, legal awareness education for students must tend to the specific objectives such as: in terms of awareness, it helps formulate, strengthen and deepen the knowledge system and students’ law understanding; in terms of attitudes and feelings: it shapes legal emotions, feelings and beliefs in law for students; in terms of motives and behavior: it is towards formation and consolidation of habits, positive behavior obeying to the legal standards 2.2.2.5 The form of legal awareness education for students The study analyzed the various forms of legal awareness education for students: curricular teaching and learning activities; extracurricular activities, integrated with movement activities; the propagation and dissemination of legal awareness on the mass media 2.2.2.6 Methods of legal awareness education for students The study analyzed the legal awareness educational methods for students during the curricular programs; methods for legal awareness education in extracurricular programs; methods for propagation activities, integrated with activist movement, unions 2.2.2.7 The relationship between legal awareness education with political, moral and aesthetic consciousness for students: The thesis is based on the view of Marxist-Leninist on the relationship among the social awareness forms to analyze the relations between legal awareness education with political, moral and aesthetic education for students in the current period 2.3 Enhancing legal awareness education for students as current requirements 2.3.1 Legal awareness education for students under the requirement of socialist law governed state The study clarified the origin, nature and function of the state and the role of legal awareness education for students in the period of constructing and completing socialist law governed state in Vietnam today 13 Legal awareness education, improving legal awareness for students in universities in the current period is aimed at: “honoring the constitution, law and educating respectfully legal awareness for people in society” 2.3.2 Legal awareness education for students under the requirement of fundamental and comprehensive renovation of higher education today The Party identified the need for fundamentally and comprehensively educational innovation to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization of the country in the conditions of market economicoriented towards socialist and international integration Legal awareness education for students in the universities is to help students be aware of the views, ways of training innovation, and it is the common mission of the Party, State and the whole society Legal awareness education for students is to help them realize fully and correctly the role of the Party's leadership over the State and society Conclusion Chapter Legal awareness is formed and developed on the basis of material life Social and material life decides the origin, content, structure and movement direction and development of legal awareness In education and training, especially the training of high quality human resources should be paid more proper attention to legal awareness education The universities in the Mid-Central provinces have an important role especially in legal awareness education for students currently Chapter REALITY AND EXISTED ISSUES IN LEGAL AWARENES EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE MID-CENTRAL PROVINCES 3.1 Factors affecting legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces 14 3.1.1 The impact of natural conditions The Mid-Central provinces is approved to general plan to develop the mid-region as a priority socio-economic region by the Prime Minister until 2020 and orientations to 2030 The Mid-Central provinces are considered as areas with very favorable position and a lot of potentials for socio-economic development 3.1.2 The impact of socio-economic conditions Socio-economic conditions of the Mid-Central provinces affect the physical and financial resources for legal awareness education When the economy develops, the material life, the economic benefits of all classes of people, in general and students, in particular are ensured, students are becoming excited, feel assured, believe in the way of Party and Government 3.1.3 The impact of socio-political conditions Socio-political environment of the Mid-Central provinces is stable, sustainable development is favorable conditions for the conduct of the popularizing activities, propagation, legal awareness education for students in higher education institutions in the provinces of the region 3.1.4 The impact of socio-cultural conditions The political, moral and cultural conditions have important influence on the legal awareness education in universities in the provinces in this region 3.2 The reality of legal awareness education for students in the universities in the Mid-Central Provinces 3.2.1 Current reality of the teaching staff in legal awareness education 3.2.1.1 Current reality of the scale and number of law teaching staff The number of law lecturers is 125 people in 2011, 131 people in 2012 and 157 people in 2013 (these numbers will be shown in the appendix of the thesis) 15 3.2.1.2 The reality of structure of law teaching staff The study analyzed and evaluated the structure of the law teaching staff in the universities in the Mid-Central provinces by some criteria: age; gender; career group (these numbers will be shown in the appendix of the thesis) The thesis outlined the advantages, disadvantages and limitations need to be changed in the near future 3.2.1.3 The reality of the law teaching staff The study analyzed and assessed the quality of the law teaching staff basing on the following criteria: political quality, moral quality; qualification; professional knowledge; foreign language skills, information technology skills (these numbers will be shown in the appendix of the thesis) The thesis outlined the advantages, disadvantages and limitations need to be changed in the near future 3.2.1.4 The correlation between the size, number of law teaching staff and students The study analyzed and evaluated the correlation, the average rate of the law teaching staff/total lecturers, total students/total lecturers, total students/total of law lecturers of each university Based on the analysis, the study then pointed out the advantages and limitations should be solved in the near future 3.2.2 Current reality of students and the results of legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces 3.2.2.1 The reality of the scale, the number of students The thesis analyzed the current situation, pointed out the shortcomings and limitations that need to be changed in the near future related to the increase or decrease in the number of students, the number of students classified according to major groups has been taught general law and specialized law, students are not taught subjects related to law accounting for 16.07% 16 3.2.2.2 The reality of students’ awareness of legal awareness The thesis analyzed the reality of students’ legal knowledge, attitude, obedience to law system, and their evaluation about the role of legal awareness education and forms of legal propaganda; their assessment of the reasons leading to the shortage of legal knowledge; their assessment of necessary knowledge of law need to equip for law students From situational analysis, the thesis points out the advantages, limitations and shortcomings need to be changed in the near future 3.2.2.3 The reality of law implementation among students recently Of the total number of offenders from 2011 to 2013, the number of students of the University in the Mid-Central provinces accounted for 1.25% Violations of rules and regulations on traffic safety and citizen’s property theft still made for big numbers The thesis analyzes the causes of the violations among law students in the Mid-Central area recently 3.2.3 The reality of numbers; programs; scientific research, documentation, legal awareness educational curriculum for students 3.2.3.1 The number of law modules The thesis focused on the analysis and evaluation of the number of the law module at universities, advantages and limitations to solve 3.2.3.2 The curriculum of the law modules The thesis focused on analyzing and assessing the reality of curriculum of the legal modules, analyzing the inadequacies and limitations need to be changed in the near future 3.2.3.3 Legal awareness scientific research, documentation, textbook Quality of teaching materials, textbooks, reference materials for teaching law is limited and inadequate; Scientific research of both lecturers and students have not met the requirements, also need to solve many limitations 3.2.4 The reality of the content, methods and forms of legal awareness education for students 17 3.2.4.1 Regarding content of legal awareness education: still too general, the structure programs has not reached the necessary depth The amount of knowledge is still limited, the update on new knowledge and soft skills have not been paid adequate attention, moreover, the curriculum focuses too much on theory 3.2.4.2 Regarding methods of legal awareness education: a great number of law lecturers still apply traditional methods alongside modern teaching methods They need to be more positive to change teaching methods in the future 3.2.4.3 Regarding form of legal awareness education: There has been still no specific provisions on the form of legal awareness education applied to students Lack of diversification in teaching legal awareness for students Not focusing on summaries, assessment on the form legal awareness education 3.2.5 The reality of facilities used for the legal awareness education for students Basically, facilities used for legal awareness education meet the requirements in comparison with the scale of the current students However, if the scale of training in the coming years continues to increase, the physical facilities of the university in the future need to be further invested to meet the demand 3.3 The issues in legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central provinces today 3.3.1 Legal awareness education for students should be closely combined with enhancing the Party and political and ideological education for students Legal awareness education in the universities in the Mid-Central provinces today must be always based on the principle of ensuring the proletarian Party, serving the mission of the Party, under the leading of the Party Legal awareness education linking to political, ideological 18 education for students in the current period is very important and necessary 3.3.2 Combining legal awareness education with moral, aesthetics, professional education in integration with extracurricular activities in order to improve the quality of education for students Legal awareness education needs to be put in relation to educating revolutionary tradition, ethics, aesthetics and lifestyle for students Helping them know how to inherit and promote the positive values of cultural tradition, revolution of the nation, of the motherland; accretion aesthetic ideal for students, toward the values of truthfulness-kindnessaesthetics There is a need to unify views, ideological, moral and aesthetic education to make legal awareness education effective and vice versa Legal awareness education for students in universities in the MidCentral province today requires tight cohesion between professional training and legal awareness education Integrating legal awareness education with union activities will bring practical results Union activities recently has actively contributed to raising the quality of legal awareness education for students 3.3.3 Ensure the Party's leadership, the management role of the State in legal awareness education for university students in the MidCentral provinces nowadays 3.3.3.1 Legal awareness education for students should adhere to the policy, the ways and the views of the Party and the mechanisms, policies and laws of the State Legal awareness education for students in the university in this area today imposes some requirements that must always adhere to the policies of the Party and State's laws The limitations of the legal awareness education in universities in the Mid-Central provinces have been set out an urgent requirement to change the perception to take this work to new level 19 3.3.3.2 Legal awareness education for students requires effort and striving of both sbjects and objects Legal awareness education must be considered is the responsibility of all organizations of all levels, sectors and the whole society, it requires the efforts and struggle of the related parties The necessary conditions for economy, politics, culture and legality supporting to legal awareness educational activities must be ensured The subjects of legal awareness education must be fully and comprehensively aware of legal awareness education for students The objects of legal awareness education need to improve the sense of responsibility, self-consciousness while joining legal awareness educational process Conclusion Chapter Legal awareness education for students in the Mid-Central provinces plays an important role and is an urgent issue during the period of industrialization, modernization and fundamentally comprehensive higher education renovation today The analysis of legal awareness education for university students in the region are main scientific foundation for building orientation and innovative solutions and improve the quality of this work in the future Chapter ORIENTATION AND MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEGAL AWARENESS EDUCATION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE MID-CENTRAL PROVINCES 4.1 Orientation to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in universities in the Mid-Central Provinces 4.1.1 Innovating perspective, awareness; enhancing the sense of responsibility in legal awareness education for students Innovating perspective, awareness to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students requires a comprehensive and long 20 term strategy, it is the responsibility of all levels and sectors and related parties There is a need to improve awareness of the subject and object of legal awareness education for students 4.1.2 Constructing and developing of the law teaching staff in the universities in the Mid-Central province to meet the requirements of current period Some basic directions are: To meet the increasing requirements of industrialization and modernization of the country and the region; Sufficient quantity, assuring quality and uniform in structure; Taking advantage of the potential of existing staff, planning, enhance training, rational use of resources, create momentum for this staff to developed a solid step, combining internal and external forces, in which internal forces are the most important and decisive factors; There is a need to find out, recruit young teachers having qualification, capability with the aim of rejuvenating, standardization and specialization; Having clear policies to attract quality, competent and highly qualified human resources; Combining the implementation of encouraged policies with discipline and rules of the organization 4.1.3 Synchronous innovation in content, methods and forms of legal awareness education for students - Contents: to ensure objectivity, science and consistent with the characteristics of the region, psycho-physiological characteristics of the students - Methodology: must be scientific and modern, in integration with exploring and using of information technology, harmonious combination between the methods, teaching both theory and practice - Form: should be flexible, dynamic, innovative, suitable to each student's speciality, combining multiple forms to provide the highest efficiency 21 4.1.4 Identifying key task of legal awareness education for students in the period of 2015 - 2020 and vision to 2030 The key tasks are: To renew the content and methods of legal awareness teaching in the curricular program in undergraduate courses Innovating content, forms of legal awareness education in extracurricular programs suits with each educational level, training level; Surveying and assessing the reality of the law teaching staff, reporters, officials in charge of legal education; Review and supplement new equipment, materials, reference materials supporting dissemination, legal education in educational institutions Equipping and adding reference materials supporting the teaching and learning legal knowledge; Focus on building and completing legal awareness information disseminated and educated on media 4.3 Measures to improve the quality of legal awareness education for university students in the Mid-Central Provinces 4.2.1 Group of measures for law teaching staff The thesis proposed some basic measures: Planning and developing law teaching staff; Increasing the quantity of law teaching staff; Developing quality of law teaching staff; Developing the structure of law teaching staff; Developing scientific research 4.2.2 Group of measures for students The thesis proposed some measures: Ensuring the stability of quantity of students; Raising students’ awareness of legal awareness; Limiting the number of students’ violations of law 4.2.3 The measures to enhancing the construction of physical facilities, equipment, materials, textbook s for legal awareness education The thesis proposed some following measures: Investing facilities and equipment for teaching and learning; Adding documents, textbooks and curricula 22 4.2.4 The measures to innovating content, forms and methods of legal awareness education for students 4.2.4.1 Innovating legal awareness educational content: The thesis proposed some following measures: Actively building teaching program, distributing the amount of legal knowledge reasonably; In the content of legal awareness education, the number of compulsory and optional modules related to legislation should be increased considerably; Enhancing the amount of knowledge of extracurricular legal education, vocational orientation and soft skills education 4.2.4.2 Innovating legal awareness teaching methods: The thesis proposed some following measures: Innovating the way of organizing legal awareness education; Renewing teaching methods of the law lecturers; Renewing methods of testing and evaluating students’ learning outcomes 4.2.4.3 Innovating form of legal awareness education: The thesis recommended some proposals: Use different forms of curricular legal training; In terms of extracurricular legal awareness education, organizing a variety of legal awareness educational forms; Using a combination of forms of propaganda to increase the effectiveness of legal awareness education 4.2.5 Group of measures combining between legal awareness education with political moral, lifestyle and professional education The thesis proposed two basic measures: Legal awareness education incorporated with education of politics, ideology, ethics and lifestyle for students; legal awareness education for students provides not only legal knowledge alone but also teach working style, pure moral lifestyle for students 4.2.6 Group of measures to ensure the necessary conditions of economy, politics, culture and for improving the quality of legal awareness education for students 23 4.2.6.1 Ensuring the socio-economic conditions The thesis proposed some basic measures: The funding managing unit should pay more attention on legal awareness education for students; Actively care for improving and bettering the physical and mental conditions for students 4.2.6.2 Ensuring the socio-political conditions The thesis proposed basic measures: Further strengthen the leadership of the Party executive committee, Board of managers for the legal awareness education for students; Improving the political spirit, the sense of responsibility for students; Enhancing practice, promoting democracy in legal awareness education in universities in the region 4.2.6.3 Ensuring the socio-cultural conditions: The thesis proposed some basic measures: To promote the traditional cultural values of the Middle Central which is helpful to legal awareness education for students; Focus on overcoming these limitations impacting negatively on the legal awareness education for students 4.2.7 Recommendations 4.2.7.1 For the Ministry of Education and Training:Specifying the policy of the Party and the State on legal awareness education; propagating and encourage officers and servant completely to implement the Directive No 32-CT/TW, Conclusion No 04-KL/TW; Implement common law and legal education 4.2.7.2 For the provinces, cities in the Mid-Central area: The provinces and territories need to focus on directing the construction of lecturers staff; increasing funding for the construction of infrastructure, human resources for universities, etc 4.2.7.3 For universities in the Mid-Central provinces: The universities should continue to advise and recommend to the government, the ministry and line agency to create the necessary and favorable conditions for legal awareness education Buiding action plans to implement 24 Directive No 32-CT/TW; Common law, legal education; Decision No 1928/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister and the project "Improving the quality of dissemination, legal education in school" period from 2012 to 2016 by the Ministry of Education-Training Conclusion Chapter Legal awareness education for students in the universities in the MidCentral provinces is very important and urgent in the current period The introduction of a system of viewpoints, orientations, measures and suggestions, recommendations to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in the Mid-Central province, contributing to the development of socio-economy in these provinces in the near future CONCLUSION Considering both theoretical and practical studies and in-depth study on the particularly important role of legal awareness in the current period in Vietnam Legal awareness is not only independent but also has close relationships with other forms of social awareness leading to diversity and richness of the spiritual life of society The impact of legal awareness on social life depends on the nature and extent of spread of legal awareness, its penetration into the citizens The legal awareness education for students in universities in the MidCentral Provinces in recent time beside the achievements, it begins to reveal the limitations and weaknesses in many aspects which need to be changed in the near future Legal awareness education must respect both curricular and extracurricular education and in integration with movements of unions and other educational activities If we want legal awareness education for university students in these provinces to develop in-depth direction, there is a need to have specific and synchronized perspective, orientation and proposals in all sides to help legal awareness education for students be effective in the future [...]... to legal awareness education The universities in the Mid- Central provinces have an important role especially in legal awareness education for students currently Chapter 3 REALITY AND EXISTED ISSUES IN LEGAL AWARENES EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE MID- CENTRAL PROVINCES 3.1 Factors affecting legal awareness education for university students in the Mid- Central provinces 14 3.1.1 The impact... facilities used for the legal awareness education for students Basically, facilities used for legal awareness education meet the requirements in comparison with the scale of the current students However, if the scale of training in the coming years continues to increase, the physical facilities of the university in the future need to be further invested to meet the demand 3.3 The issues in legal awareness. .. education for university students in the Mid- Central provinces today 3.3.1 Legal awareness education for students should be closely combined with enhancing the Party and political and ideological education for students Legal awareness education in the universities in the Mid- Central provinces today must be always based on the principle of ensuring the proletarian Party, serving the mission of the Party,... education for students 3.3.3 Ensure the Party's leadership, the management role of the State in legal awareness education for university students in the MidCentral provinces nowadays 3.3.3.1 Legal awareness education for students should adhere to the policy, the ways and the views of the Party and the mechanisms, policies and laws of the State Legal awareness education for students in the university in this... in the near future 3.2.2 Current reality of students and the results of legal awareness education for university students in the Mid- Central provinces 3.2.2.1 The reality of the scale, the number of students The thesis analyzed the current situation, pointed out the shortcomings and limitations that need to be changed in the near future related to the increase or decrease in the number of students, the. .. foundation for building orientation and innovative solutions and improve the quality of this work in the future Chapter 4 ORIENTATION AND MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEGAL AWARENESS EDUCATION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE MID- CENTRAL PROVINCES 4.1 Orientation to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in universities in the Mid- Central Provinces 4.1.1 Innovating perspective, awareness; ... supporting dissemination, legal education in educational institutions Equipping and adding reference materials supporting the teaching and learning legal knowledge; 4 Focus on building and completing legal awareness information disseminated and educated on media 4.3 Measures to improve the quality of legal awareness education for university students in the Mid- Central Provinces 4.2.1 Group of measures for. .. Decision No 1928/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister and the project "Improving the quality of dissemination, legal education in school" period from 2012 to 2016 by the Ministry of Education-Training Conclusion Chapter 4 Legal awareness education for students in the universities in the MidCentral provinces is very important and urgent in the current period The introduction of a system of viewpoints, orientations,... recommendations to improve the quality of legal awareness education for students in the Mid- Central province, contributing to the development of socio-economy in these provinces in the near future CONCLUSION Considering both theoretical and practical studies and in- depth study on the particularly important role of legal awareness in the current period in Vietnam Legal awareness is not only independent but also... universities in the provinces in this region 3.2 The reality of legal awareness education for students in the universities in the Mid- Central Provinces 3.2.1 Current reality of the teaching staff in legal awareness education 3.2.1.1 Current reality of the scale and number of law teaching staff The number of law lecturers is 125 people in 2011, 131 people in 2012 and 157 people in 2013 (these numbers