NA Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty speaks at the conference (Source: qdnd.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – A conference under the topic of “Tertiary education: standardisationand international integration” was heldby the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents,and Children and the Vietnam National University’s Ho Chi Minh City branch inHanoi on August 17.
In hisopening remarks, NA Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty said that the Law on HigherEducation, which was adopted in 2012, laid the legal foundation for thedevelopment of tertiary education.
Amidst thecontinuous development of human knowledge, science, and technology – and especiallyunder the demands of globalisation and internationalisation – Vietnam’s highereducation system needs to make strong reform to fulfil its task of personneltraining, integrating further into the world, and improving its competiveness,he said.
AssociateProfessor- Dr. Phan Thanh Binh, head of the NA’s committee, described highereducation as the key to deciding the quality of human resources serving thecountry’s ongoing process of reform and international integration.
DilipParajuli, a representative of World Bank in Vietnam, suggested Vietnam investmore in tertiary education, explaining that there are only two universities inthe country listed among the world’s top 1,000 universities.
Vietnamshould increase the transparency and accountability of its universities, hesaid, adding that universities must be self-reliant, with the Government needingto provide more support for major educational institutions and helping them improveself-governance and reach higher global ranking positions.
In thisregard, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said 23 public universities nationwidehave practised partial self-governance. He urges universities to set forthscholarship mechanisms when increasing tuition fees. –VNA
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