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According to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, one of the problems with promoting autonomy in higher education is that some principals themselves do not want to reduce their power and want to have the most power.
That was the emphasis of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam in his speech in the morning session, at the Workshop “Autonomy in higher education – from politics to practice” by the Committee on Culture, Education, Thanh The National Assembly of Youth, Adolescents and Children in collaboration with various universities organize shows departure date 11/27.
University autonomy: Vietnam has taken a big step forward
Looking back on the journey of university autonomy, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam mentioned the milestone in 2004, the government decided to test university autonomy in 4 universities. At that time, when it comes to university autonomy, we immediately think of autonomy, the state does not invest. So fighting for 10 years has still not paid off.
Until 2014, we argued with the perception that the “essence” of university autonomy is not financial autonomy but “professional autonomy”.
And wanting to be a self-employed professional must have a certain autonomy in finance and human resources. Since then, the agency in charge of this autonomous pilot has passed from the Ministry of Finance and in the Permanent Government, from the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of finance to the Ministry of Education and Training and to the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Education. It is a cognitive process of 10 years.
The projects financed by the World Bank (WB), at the same time, Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan is very dedicated to the construction of excellent universities, in which the first is the Vietnamese-German school, the Vietnamese-French school and the second is Vietnam-Japan. Viet Duc school is financed by the World Bank, the purpose is not only to borrow 200 million dollars from the World Bank or Asian Bank to build two universities, but the purpose is to build a model of university governance towards oneself. Teacher.
It is those models plus the domestic model, for example, Ton Duc Thang University, FPT University, Duy Tan University … and the efforts of some public schools like Polytechnic University, National University of Economics, Kinh University. In Ho Chi Minh City, UNV Hanoi and UNV Ho Chi Minh City, we have just formed a government resolution on autonomy.
Although that resolution was just implemented, we said from the beginning, this road is a one-way street, there is no going back and very fast, we have spread among the university community, all of society, Government agencies, government agencies. the National Assembly. We have a revised Higher Education Law. In reality, the biggest change is to legalize the spirit of university autonomy.
“Until today, it has been a very long step. From the first days, we did not think that in 5-6 years we would have a Law like this.
At the beginning of the implementation of education reform according to the Central resolution in 2014, we have many goals, including the goal of the university and only one school is expected to be ranked in the top 1000 in the world. Now, both the law and the perception, practice and quality of the university take a great step forward.
Today, we have not just one school, but many ranked schools. According to QS, last year we had three more ranked schools, in addition to the traditional schools. This is a very long step, “emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
The Deputy Prime Minister said: “First of all, I have to give the first thanks to higher education institutions and to the whole of society, our state agencies together to make higher education take a very long step. And in the right direction. This is extremely important, but we cannot be satisfied.
If you temporarily divide the education system into general education, higher education, and vocational education, then general education is the best, as the World Bank ranks as the regional leader and has access to OECD countries.
Our higher education, before innovation, was out of the rankings (out of the top 100), now it sits at around 70. Vocational education that was not ranked before, now ranks around 90, depending on how it is ranked. classify. class. It means that even if there is a change, we cannot be satisfied. “
5 problems to solve when implementing university autonomy
Innovation is a process, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dam. When we are in the right direction, we move forward. All statements from the morning session share the same understanding that we have only been one step away from innovating in higher education and a long short-term process. We agree on the following 5 points:
“First, university autonomy must come from experience, the West is also called academic autonomy. There must be an advanced governance model that extends to the whole of society, improves democracy and Sciences.
Second, autonomy must be linked to accountability. Note that the explanation here is the explanation for all of society, first for students, school officials, parents, and then for all of society … not just state agencies.
Third, autonomy does not mean that the state no longer invests. We shouldn’t just think one way. In fact, the schools are autonomous, the State invested even more money in the schools.
The Government has been directing very energetically, the Ministry of Education and Training and the main Ministries of Finance are in charge of assigning the task of training and training orders with the State budget.
Fourth, the Government clearly defines this as a global trend, autonomy does not mean letting go of state management. The university wants to build a house has yet to comply with the regulations of the Construction industry, the regulations of the Public Safety branch on fire prevention and extinction. It continues to manage the State and by law.
Fifth, autonomy but without reducing access opportunities for the poor and their counterparts in the policy area. We have to do better. Currently, the order allocation mechanism is slow.
For example, the state incentivizes and grants money for ethnic minority children to go to university, before returning this money to school, it can now be awarded through scholarships. Or the State wants to develop a certain profession, then commission training schools ”.
Obstacles related to officials, salaries and transfer of power
The deputy prime minister pointed out that the problems related to state management in the education sector are not many, but we have two basic problems. The first problem in terms of state management is mainly related to the officials, ranks, salaries of the Ministry of the Interior and the problem of the investment budget, orders from the financial sector.
The second that needs a very strong transformation is about the owner. Previously, the upper agency was the governing body directly interfering in too much, now that the power has to gradually change, the nature has an arrangement and a change of power from the lead agency to the council. school and agency representing the owner.
He partially ceded the power of the state management agency, the Ministry of Education and Training to the School Council and partially transferred the power of the Director and the Rector to the School Council. The school council is a collective mechanism, always creating a consensus to avoid extreme things being committed out of habit, if there is no collective agency, it is easy to make mistakes.
Vietnam and some countries have similar conditions, apart from 5 points in common, this owner point is very remarkable. From the beginning we have public universities, then we sell public and then private, this owner must be vigilant.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said that the transfer of power must start from the perception of the university leadership.
There has been a situation where several schools, a company, an owner invest as a group of investors, they consider that school as their owner and they are determined. That is not true. In the long run, it should be owned by the whole of society, not because I put in money, but because I decide to close one thing and another.
In the practical implementation of university autonomy, there are two very important things. First, there must be a school board in accordance with the law. To do so, there must be a change of power.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam especially noted that in order to be deployed, schools must have school boards in accordance with the law. This shift in power has yet to take place in many places due to a lack of communication within schools, mainly due to the perception of the leadership team.
“Some principals themselves don’t want to lose their rights, they don’t want to transfer their rights to the school board, they still want me to be the principal, I’m the greatest in the school. The law so far still has money. the question: great principal or great school council?
Now it is necessary to have a clear orientation for schools, the principal is not simultaneously the Secretary of the Party Committee but the President of the School Council at the same time the Secretary of the Party Committee, “said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
Le Thu
