National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan visits Vietnam National University HCM City (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Chairwoman of theNational Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan stressed the importance of greaterautonomy for Vietnamese universities to help them meet international standardsand integrate globally while meeting with lecturers and students of the VietnamNational University Ho Chi Minh City on September 4 on the occasion of the new2018-2019 academic year.
“Autonomy does not mean loose management and it mustcome with accountability, responsibility and transparency,” she said.
The responsibility will require educationalinstitutes to survive by their quality, not by short-term solutions, she said.
The NA leader asked the Vietnam NationalUniversity HCM City to focus on improving its training quality and teacher’screativity to educate young students as well as promote scientific researchactivities to develop the university into a high-quality scientific researchand technology transfer centre.
The university needs to soon complete theconstruction of Vietnam’s first university urban area, she requested.
The Vietnam National University HCM City urbanarea along with a hi-tech area and cultural village of ethnic groups located atthe city’s gateway, the centre of the key economic zone in southeast region,will not only belong to the university but also become a scientific andcultural centre of the region, she added.
Talking to the university’s students, Ngan mentionedthe State’s supervising role in creating and developing the higher educationenvironment.
“The role of the State is not to control but tocreate rules and supervise their implementation,” she stated.
She said that Ministry of Education and Trainingalong with national universities will help make changes regarding curricula andtraining methods towards global integration.
Educational institutes should be granted theright to have their own recruitment criteria and take responsibility in termsof training quality, she added.
Vietnam National University HCM City is thefirst unit in the country to make training innovations and launch the trainingof talented students and engineers.
This year, the university and the VietnamNational University Hanoi have become the first two universities in Vietnam tobe listed by Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings of the UK among thetop 1,000 excellent universities in the world.-VNA
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