The above content was stated by Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son at the 2023 education conference on institutions and policies to improve the quality of higher education organized by the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education on the afternoon of November 5.
Acknowledging the development efforts of universities in recent times, the Minister frankly assessed that these results are still very slow and have not yet made a breakthrough. Meanwhile, we are expecting the country to make a breakthrough, the economy to develop at a high speed, bringing the country out of the middle-income country ranking, becoming a fairly high-income country.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son spoke on the afternoon of November 5.
"With such a goal, the university education system, high-quality education needs a breakthrough. Currently, we are still struggling with the situation of how universities can survive, reduce suffering, reduce difficulties, reduce poverty, but have not seen the path, the breakthrough strategy. So the problem here is how to make universities break through?", Minister Son pondered.
According to him, public universities that want to make breakthrough improvements must both strongly mobilize socialization from businesses and have large investments from the budget.
Along with investment resources, he also worries about investment methods, because money is available but if spent incorrectly, it will be very dangerous "it is rare and difficult to spend". Therefore, it is necessary to have a specific and breakthrough mechanism for the subject, an autonomous model to remove obstacles and bottlenecks in the schools.
"In many places in the world, the concept of university autonomy does not exist, because schools consider it a matter of course, not a task or a model. It can be said that autonomy is an attribute of a university, it must exist, needs to exist and of course exists," the commander of the Education sector stated.
The Minister also understands the difficulties that universities are facing, with overlapping regulations and procedures. For example, scientists in universities are civil servants and are subject to management sanctions under the Civil Servants Law. However, now that they are autonomous, scientists need to be innovative and creative instead of being constrained and bound by responsibilities.
Therefore, it is necessary to create a complete and synchronous legal corridor to implement university autonomy in full depth. Taking university autonomy as the focal point to review overlapping, obstructive, and contradictory regulations, that is a major basis for amending the law, Minister Son proposed to the National Assembly.
Experts attending the workshop.
Speaking at the workshop, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son pointed out four reasons why universities are currently still slow to develop.
Firstly, the quality assessment and monitoring mechanism may not be really effective and substantial. If we want to know the quality of education, we need a really effective quality assessment and monitoring mechanism.
Second, the legal framework for university autonomy is not really synchronous, not creating a strong driving force for higher education institutions to fully develop their internal strength; the management capacity of some schools is still weak.
Third, the university education system is fragmented and not optimized. Some universities operate inefficiently and are of poor quality.
Fourth, investment resources for education are still very low compared to development requirements. Compared to the region and the world, the proportion of investment expenditure from the State budget for higher education is only 1/2 or 1/3 of the regional average.
From that bottleneck, the Deputy Minister said that the policy to improve the quality of higher education is to strengthen the factors affecting quality, to overcome the above bottleneck. There needs to be policies and policy reviews on quality assessment and monitoring. There needs to be solutions to optimize at both the system level as well as in each higher education institution. There needs to be a policy mechanism to maximize mobilization and development of financial resources, staff, facilities, technology, and cooperation between the school and the higher education system with the outside world.
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