Proposal to develop a new decree on university autonomy

According to Associate Professor Bui Anh Tuan, Principal of Foreign Trade University, Resolution 29 is highly scientific, comprehensive and oriented for the development of education and training in the country. In general, the system is developing in the spirit of Resolution 29, Vietnam's university education has had strong development in recent times.

In the spirit of Resolution 29, Vietnamese university education has developed in recent times.

However, the implementation of the recent Resolution 29 on university autonomy has revealed some limitations. The perceptions and expectations of different stakeholders (especially between management agencies and private investors) on university autonomy are different. Sometimes university autonomy is equated with financial autonomy, which leads to some governing bodies and new management agencies focusing on cutting investment budgets and regular expenditures; not paying attention to building appropriate management mechanisms, policies and regulations. Many regulations in current documents are not consistent with the autonomy of higher education, and even limit the autonomy trend of higher education. The implementation of university autonomy lacks a clear roadmap, higher education institutions exist in many forms with different levels of autonomy; the market mechanism for autonomous higher education institutions to compete equally with each other has not been completed.

It is worth mentioning that some higher education institutions are afraid of being autonomous because they do not fully understand the benefits of autonomy. Others simply think that university autonomy is simply about ensuring regular and investment expenses, while other autonomy contents (strategy development and implementation, training, enrollment, academics, organization, and human resources) have not been focused on. On the other hand, many schools misunderstand autonomy as the right to "decide everything" so they do not pay attention to legal regulations, are confused in implementation, and even violate regulations.

Associate Professor Bui Anh Tuan, Principal of Foreign Trade University, spoke at the conference summarizing 10 years of implementing Resolution 29 on comprehensive fundamental innovation of education and training this morning, December 14.

To strive for Vietnam's education to reach the advanced level in the region by 2030, the education and training sector needs to persistently and steadfastly continue to implement Resolution 29 in the new context. "To continue to promote the real effectiveness of university autonomy, we boldly propose that the Government and the Ministry of Education and Training consider developing a new decree on university autonomy to create a breakthrough for development in the new context. In particular, attention should be paid to creating a healthy competitive environment between institutions, ensuring equality between institutions and between autonomy models...", Associate Professor Tuan proposed.

Associate Professor Dang Hoai Bac, Director of the Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology, also said that if universities are autonomous without the support of the state, businesses, and society, the system will face many difficulties in competing with countries in the region and around the world in the coming time. "We are doing very fundamental tasks such as training human resources for semiconductor chips. If we use tuition fees as a regular expense, if we continue to be autonomous in the current way, we will never be able to catch up with other countries in the world," Associate Professor Bac commented.

"Assigning tasks" to military schools to train civilian systems

Major General Nguyen Van Oanh, Director of the Department of Schools (Ministry of National Defense), proposed that the Ministry of Education and Training add to the draft summary report and draft conclusion of the Politburo the content "Some educational institutions in the army participate in training human resources to serve the country's industrialization and modernization (often called civilian subjects) in some urgent fields".

According to Major General Oanh, military educational institutions have experience in training this civilian population. Over the past 22 years (since 2001), the Ministry of National Defense has directed military educational institutions to train over 93,000 civilian students at all levels. By 2020, enrollment and training will be stopped to adjust the organization and staffing of the military school system. Up to now, the military school system has been adjusted, streamlined, strong, specialized, modern, suitable for practice and integrated into the national education system, with all the conditions to continue training.

The training quality of military educational institutions such as the Academy of Politics, the Academy of Military Technology, the Academy of Military Medicine, the Academy of Military Science, etc. has been affirmed and trusted by society and learners. Therefore, it is very necessary to participate in civilian training in social fields and sectors with high demand, urgency, and dual use, with reasonable numbers at 8 educational institutions with strengths and potential.

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