What did the Minister of Education and Training say about the "major reorganization" of universities?

At the Higher Education Conference held on the morning of September 18, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that Resolution 71 of the Politburo determined the focus on higher education, in which the most important task is to modernize universities.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son speaks at the 2025 Higher Education Conference.

The goal is to develop universities at a faster, stronger pace, with a clearer direction, creating highly qualified human resources, especially in fields that the country needs.

Minister Nguyen Kim Son acknowledged that higher education is facing development opportunities. “Opportunities that Eastern people often use the word 'time'. This is the opportunity, the time, the moment for higher education to break through and develop. If we do not grasp this opportunity, not only will we not be able to develop, but we will also be at fault.”

According to Mr. Son, universities are currently facing many changes, even the heads of the institutions may be confused, such as the abolition of the school council, the Party Secretary will also be the head, the arrangement and merger of schools, university autonomy, innovation in the way of examining and appointing professors and associate professors...

The Minister of Education and Training said that the education sector is preparing to face a "major rearrangement" of higher education institutions.

Resolution 71 of the Politburo requires urgent arrangement and restructuring of universities; merging and dissolving substandard schools; eliminating intermediate levels; studying the merger of research institutes with universities; and transferring some schools to local management.

Except for police, military and non-public schools, Mr. Son said he will rearrange about 140 public schools scattered among central and local ministries and branches.

According to Mr. Son, the spirit will have to reduce many contacts and said that the Ministry is considering many options.

“It is possible to transfer schools under the central sector, managed by ministries and branches, to local areas. It is possible to merge local schools into central schools. Or schools under ministries and branches can merge together, many local schools can merge together... Some schools will be dissolved if they are too small in scale and do not meet standards,” said Minister Nguyen Kim Son.

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