Merging and dissolving substandard higher education institutions

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh , Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18 (Steering Committee), signed and issued Plan 130 on rearranging public service units, state-owned enterprises, and organizations within the state administrative system.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh. (Photo: VGP)

Streamlining the organizational structure in ministries and branches

Regarding the administrative organization at the Central level , the Steering Committee requested to continue reviewing and streamlining the organizational structure in ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, especially department-level units and bureaus under ministries and branches, to ensure that there is no duplication of functions and tasks.

Strictly implement the policy of not establishing departments in departments under ministries and branches; in special cases, for departments under ministries and branches that have recently merged or consolidated from 3 or more department-level focal points or have a large number of staff (from 45 staff or more), it is possible to consider establishing departments (implemented in accordance with regulations, each department has 15 or more people).

For local administrative organizations , it is necessary to review and promptly issue regulations on the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of provincial and communal agencies, units, and organizations, especially agencies, units, and organizations after mergers and acquisitions according to the new model, and propose and make reasonable adjustments if necessary to ensure no overlap or omission of functions and tasks.

At the same time, continue to research and propose plans to streamline internal organizations of provincial departments, agencies, branches, agencies and units.

For public service units under the organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies , the Steering Committee recommends continuing to review, arrange, and perfect the internal organizational structure, ensuring streamlining and improving the quality and efficiency of public service provision.

For public service units outside the organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, the Steering Committee directs to only retain units under ministries and branches serving political tasks and leading units associated with the functions and tasks of ministries and branches that fully meet the criteria and conditions for establishment according to regulations, in accordance with the planning of the network of public service units by industry and field; convert into joint stock companies when fully meeting the conditions prescribed by law.

At the same time, review and arrange the internal organization of public service units, ensuring that they meet the criteria for establishing organizations according to Government regulations and the requirements for streamlining the organizational apparatus.

For academies, universities, colleges, vocational training institutions (colleges, intermediate schools), the Steering Committee requires the construction of a number of schools and advanced training centers specializing in artificial intelligence. Focus on arranging and reorganizing existing vocational training institutions to ensure they are streamlined, efficient, and meet standards. Strongly decentralize the management of vocational training institutions to local authorities.

Along with that is the arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions; merging and dissolving substandard higher education institutions; eliminating intermediate levels, ensuring streamlined, unified and effective administration; researching the merger of research institutes with higher education institutions, and transferring a number of universities to local management.

Regarding hospitals , the Steering Committee requested to continue to arrange and transfer a number of hospitals under the Ministry of Health to provincial management, the Ministry of Health to manage a number of specialized, high-tech, leading hospitals to carry out the tasks of professional guidance, training high-quality human resources, scientific research, technology transfer, coordination of disease prevention and control, public health emergency events, natural disasters, catastrophes, and health security.

Strengthen and improve the capacity of the preventive health system in a modern direction, with sufficient capacity to monitor, provide early warning, promptly control epidemics and proactively organize and implement epidemic prevention and control activities. Strengthen the implementation of the Expanded Immunization Program in terms of both scope and vaccination subjects.

Each province and city has at least one specialized hospital.

Regarding public service units in the field of education in the locality , according to the Steering Committee, basically maintain the existing high schools, middle schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and public kindergartens, propose to arrange and adjust if necessary in a convenient direction to serve the needs of people and students.

In mountainous and highland provinces, ethnic minorities will continue to review and arrange separate schools to focus on forming boarding and semi-boarding schools for students at commune or inter-commune centers.

The Steering Committee also oriented to merge vocational education centers and continuing education centers into vocational secondary schools equivalent to high school level under the Department of Education and Training to provide public services in inter-ward and commune areas; each province and city has a maximum of no more than 3 vocational schools to train skilled workers to serve socio-economic development and attract investment in the locality (not including schools that are self-sufficient in regular expenditure or higher).

For public service units in the local health sector, the Steering Committee thoroughly grasps the need to perfect the modern preventive health system, with sufficient capacity to monitor, provide early warning, promptly control epidemics and proactively organize and implement disease prevention activities.

At the same time, maintain the existing provincial public hospitals; promote socialization in places with sufficient conditions. Each province and city has at least one specialized hospital; a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department.

The Steering Committee requested the establishment of commune, ward and special zone health stations under the People's Committees at the commune level and medical examination points on the basis of the previous commune health stations to meet the needs of disease prevention, primary health care and basic medical examination and treatment for the people in the area. Transfer the previous district-level health centers and general hospitals to the Department of Health to organize care, examination and treatment in inter-ward and communal areas.

Regarding public service units under specialized agencies under the provincial People's Committee (department), the Steering Committee recommends continuing to research, review, arrange, and reorganize public service units under the department. Each department (except the Department of Education and Training and the Department of Health) maintains only one public service unit to perform the function of serving State management, the remaining public service units must self-insure regular expenditures or more.

Submit the arrangement plan to the Ministry of Home Affairs before September 25.

Also in the plan, the Steering Committee requested to research and develop a number of large-scale domestic strategic digital technology enterprises to develop digital infrastructure, lead the direction of national digital transformation activities, and have the capacity and ability to compete internationally.

In addition, restructuring state-owned enterprises, equitization, and divestment of state capital follow the principle: State-owned enterprises only focus on key, essential, strategic areas; important areas and national defense and security; necessary areas that enterprises of other economic sectors do not invest in.

The Steering Committee requested the People's Committees of provinces and cities to develop plans to arrange public service units under their management in each sector and field, send them to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for consideration and decision, and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis before September 25.

Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies shall develop plans to reorganize public service units under their management authority, submit them to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for consideration and decision, and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis before September 25.

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