The National Assembly Standing Committee's Supervisory Delegation works with the Ministry of Education and Training

On the morning of March 14, the Supervisory Delegation of the National Assembly Standing Committee worked with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on the implementation of policies and laws on the development and use of human resources to meet the requirements of socio-economic development, especially high-quality human resources.

The head of the monitoring delegation is Nguyen Dac Vinh, Chairman of the National Assembly 's Committee on Culture and Society. The delegation includes representatives from the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society , the Committee on Law and Justice, the Committee on Economy and Finance, the Committee on Science, Technology and Environment ; representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Home Affairs, etc.

Working scene

Working with the delegation from the Ministry of Education and Training were Minister Nguyen Kim Son, Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son , and leaders of relevant departments and offices.

In his opening remarks , Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Social Affairs Nguyen Dac Vinh shared a number of issues of concern to the monitoring delegation; focusing on the report on the implementation of policies and laws on the development and use of human resources to meet the requirements of socio-economic development, especially high-quality human resources in the 2021-2024 period, developed by the Ministry of Education and Training. This includes the Party's policies and guidelines related to the development and use of human resources; the institutionalization of this policy; assessment of the current situation and results of policy implementation, etc.

Appreciating the preparation of the report by the Ministry of Education and Training, delegates participating in the monitoring delegation discussed and gave comments on the draft report; at the same time, requested to provide more information on some contents and raised some issues that needed clarification.

Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son and leaders of departments and offices of the Ministry of Education and Training discussed and clarified the issues raised by the monitoring delegation, related to the concept and definition of high-quality human resources; scale and structure of human resource training; opening major codes, training human resources for key industries; building a university education strategy; network system of local universities; socialization in education; assessment of university education quality...

Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son discussed at the working session

Appreciating and thanking the attention of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Minister Nguyen Kim Son said that each monitoring, evaluation, inspection and audit is an opportunity for the Ministry of Education and Training to have a channel to explain to the National Assembly and society in an effective, efficient and efficient manner.

According to the Minister, the content of this supervision is mainly related to the implementation of two important laws: the Law on Higher Education and the Law on Vocational Education. The contents of the supervision delegation's interest focus on a number of groups of issues: System, structure, network, overall structure; quality issues; policies and policy implementation to ensure equity in education; problems and difficulties and proposed solutions; orientations for the coming time...

Sharing his views on the issue of quality, the Minister affirmed that this is always the biggest concern. However, assessing quality must always be compared, what changes have been made compared to before and viewed from many perspectives. If only looking at expectations, quality will never meet them. Along with that, creating quality requires full and certain conditions.

Regarding bottlenecks, the Minister mentioned institutional bottlenecks and resource bottlenecks for education (investment, finance, infrastructure, etc.).

Minister Nguyen Kim Son discussed at the meeting

Regarding institutional bottlenecks, in addition to legal policies related to tax, land, and socialization, the Minister emphasized the legal bottlenecks in implementing university autonomy. Referring to the draft Law on Teachers, which considers teachers as special civil servants, according to the Minister, autonomous higher education institutions also need to be considered special public service units. This is the core point that when amending the Law on Higher Education, with the desire to have a series of policy mechanisms so that higher education institutions are truly special public service units.

“As a university, it must be autonomous to the highest degree, not based on financial criteria. Depending on the type of training in basic science, pedagogy, arts, etc., the state will calculate to have different investment support. This is a very important change,” the Minister shared.

Also on this issue, the Minister informed about the simultaneous amendment of 3 laws: Law on Education, Law on Higher Education and Law on Vocational Education; how to have a coherent system and have new breakthroughs.

Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society Nguyen Dac Vinh spoke at the working session.

Regarding the bottlenecks in investment, finance, infrastructure, and resources for education, in addition to the good news that the Politburo, the Secretariat, and the Government are directing the preparation of a national target program on modernizing infrastructure for education in general, the Minister proposed ensuring the ratio of spending on higher education; reviewing and approving a number of proposals and projects that are being submitted, without waiting for the national target program to be approved...

Regarding the opinion that enterprises must retrain their trained human resources, the Minister said: The responsibility of training schools is always to try to achieve the highest possible "match". However, in the context of rapidly changing careers and technologies, basic training, foundation, skills, and adaptability are what universities and vocational schools must aim for. On the business side, it is also necessary to change their perspective to prepare human resources for themselves together with schools, and cannot just sit and wait; including getting involved early, creating conditions for students to practice and intern at businesses...

Concluding the meeting, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society Nguyen Dac Vinh assessed that the Ministry of Education and Training had prepared a thorough and complete report. The report of the Ministry of Education and Training, as well as the issues discussed during the meeting, were a very important basis for the monitoring delegation to build a quality report on this content.

Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10364