MOTIVE is the abbreviation of a project named “Monitoring Trends in Vietnamese graduates’ Employment”. The project aims to 4 specific objectives, including: (1) to strengthen the capacity for the Vietnamese to release graduate surveys; (2) to build-up the capacity for the Vietnamese in exploiting the data of graduates for the adoption of quality assurance measures; (3) to increase cooperation between Vietnamese universities and MOET on graduate tracking; (4) to reinforce the connection between partner institutions and society on graduate tracking.

Thai Nguyen University of Economics & Business Administration (TUEBA) is a center for training high quality human resource in the Northern mountainous region, Viet Nam. In addition to training activities, TUEBA has been implementing many high applicable research projects in collaboration with many Vietnamese institutions and international partners.  TUEBA is one of the members of Thai Nguyen University which currently has participated in the MOTIVE project. In the context of this project, an online training took place on 25^th April, 2020 hosted by Hanoi University. The online training witnessed the enthusiasm joining of researchers and IT staffs coming from Thai Nguyen University such as Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration, Thai Nguyen University of Agricultural and Forestry, School of Foreign Language. There are 4 issues that the program focused on. Firstly, the introduction of  VOYAGE, process to handle works, steps in projects. Secondly, roles of student, admin, company in the project. Thirdly, questionnaire and information fields of the project. Finally, notes about personnel, operation and finance management. At the end of the programs, attendants had opportunities to share their opinions though part for questions and answers. These following images are about the program:

Introduction of how to register an account on the Voyage system

Introduction of how to answer the survey questionnaire on the Voyage system

This event is considered as one of the steps in the process of development of the project. After this event, TUEBA plans to build a communication plan about the project’s data system of VOYAGE for student, introduction of how to register an account on the system and guide them to answer survey questionnaires.