Request to merge and dissolve substandard universities

(Dan Tri) - One of the tasks requested by the Politburo is to deploy the arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions, and merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions.

The above information was just stated in Resolution 71-NQ/TW, dated August 22, of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development.

Resolution 71 also emphasizes the urgent need to develop a strategic framework for higher education development. It includes the need to reorganize and restructure higher education institutions; and merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions.

The education sector needs to study the merger of research institutes with higher education institutions; study the transfer of some universities to local management to improve management efficiency and better meet local human resource training requirements.

Previously, at the Conference on implementing projects on human resource development and "3-party" cooperation (State, school and enterprise), organized by the Ministry of Education and Training in mid-June, Dr. Nguyen Anh Dung, Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education and Training) said that according to the planning of the network of higher education and pedagogical institutions for the period 2021-2030, large higher education centers will be formed, about 50 to 60 higher education institutions training to the doctoral level.

In particular, a number of public universities will be streamlined and reorganized; universities of physical education, sports, and arts will be reorganized.

Restructure and develop technical pedagogical universities into multidisciplinary, multi-field higher education institutions with a focus on technology and engineering.

For pedagogical colleges, the direction of arrangement and organization is to merge with a pedagogical university or a multidisciplinary, multi-field higher education institution (with a school, faculty of pedagogy or basic sciences);

Merge into a local or regional higher education institution. Merge or consolidate with several other local educational institutions.

In addition to the merger, it is expected that in the coming time, Hanoi National University of Education and Ho Chi Minh City University of Education will be upgraded and developed into key national higher education institutions in pedagogy.

Five key universities of engineering and technology and other key higher education institutions play a core role (Photo: Duy Thanh).

According to Mr. Dung, it is expected that from now until 2030, with a vision to 2050, we will focus on investing in and upgrading the development of national and regional universities to achieve quality and prestige on par with the region and the world.

Together with 2 pedagogical universities and 5 key technical and technological universities and other key higher education institutions, they play a core role in the network of higher education institutions.

Develop Hue University and Da Nang University into National Universities. Of which, Ho Chi Minh City National University is assigned the largest training scale with 120,000-130,000 students, Hanoi National University has 70,000-80,000 students, National Universities in Hue and Da Nang are expected to have 140,000-150,000 students.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi University of Science and Technology are expected to be oriented to develop into a group of leading higher education institutions in Asia.

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According to Dr. Nguyen Anh Dung, the merger helps develop a synchronous and modern network of university and pedagogical education facilities with reasonable scale and distribution structure.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/yeu-cau-sap-nhap-giai-the-cac-truong-dai-hoc-khong-dat-chuan-20250829112024454.htm