Substandard higher education institutions will be merged and dissolved.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh - Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW has just signed Plan 130/KH-BCĐTKNQ18 on rearranging public service units, state-owned enterprises, and organizations within the state administrative system.

According to this Plan, Vietnam will build a number of advanced schools and training centers specializing in artificial intelligence.

Focus on arranging and reorganizing existing vocational training facilities to ensure they are streamlined, efficient, and meet standards. Strongly decentralize the management of vocational training facilities to local authorities;

Arrange and restructure higher education institutions; merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions; eliminate intermediate levels, ensure streamlined, unified and effective administration; study the merger of research institutes with higher education institutions, and transfer some universities to local management.

Basically, maintain the existing public high schools, middle schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and kindergartens, and propose arrangements and adjustments if necessary to conveniently serve the needs of the people and students.

For mountainous provinces, highland areas, and ethnic minorities: Continue to review and arrange separate schools to focus on forming boarding and semi-boarding schools for ethnic students at commune or inter-commune centers.

Streamline, reduce contacts, improve quality of operations.

Merge vocational education centers and continuing education centers into vocational secondary schools equivalent to high schools under the Department of Education and Training to provide public services in inter-ward and inter-commune areas;

Each province or city shall have no more than 03 vocational schools to train skilled workers to serve socio -economic development and attract investment in the locality (excluding schools that are self-sufficient in regular expenditure or more).