The autonomy mechanism among universities in Vietnam has offered more room for these higher education institutes to better satisfy the demands of the market, but there raises a need for a master plan on university autonomy. These are opinions of participants in the conference on university autonomy in 2022, held by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) yesterday.
Public non-business units, as regulated, must submit a project plan to the chairman of a provincial/city People’s Committee for an approval to use public assets for trading, leasing, entering a joint venture, co-providing basic or essential services to the community for the sake of financial autonomy. In reality, however, problems in administrative procedures have prevented Public non-business units from effectively using public assets.
Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) has identified its mission from 2021-2025 with a vision to 2030 as a pioneer in management mechanism reform to follow the model of institute autonomy in higher education or university autonomy. This model is expected to boost the performance of university governance and encourage innovation. SGGP Newspaper has conducted an interview with Associate Prof. Dr. Vu Hai Quan – Director of VNU-HCMC about this matter.
The revised draft law on higher education (hereafter the Draft) is urgently sent by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children to universities nationwide for opinions and recommendations. Yet in the Draft, many issues are not mentioned, one very important of which is the topic of autonomy in state-owned units, as stated in Resolution No.19 of the 6th Plenum of the Party Central Committee issued in October 2017.