National workshop on "University Autonomy - opportunities and challenges"

On the thirtieth of September, 2016, Hanoi University of Industry in collaboration with the Association of Vietnamese Universities and Colleges, the National Board of Education and Human Resource Development held a workshop named "University Autonomy – Opportunities and challenges". Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Vu Duc Dam attended the event and made a speech.

Workshop panorama

Nearly 300 representatives from the Universities, Colleges and Institutes nationwide, as well as Guest delegates and leading experts on the issues related to university autonomy participated in the workshop.

Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Vu Duc Dam attended the workshop

The workshop focused on discussing the issues of university autonomy mechanism. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Quy - Party Secretary, Rector of Hanoi University of Industry gave the presentation of "Experience with financial autonomy at Hanoi University of Industry".

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Quy - Party Secretary, Rector of Hanoi University of Industry

The workshop was heated, democratic, objective and it reached a high consensus on such issues that university autonomy is an inevitable development trend of universities in the world. In the higher education reforms, the overall trend is transferring autonomy to universities. The purpose of this policy is for the universities to use it effectively to meet the new demands of society. Therefore, autonomy delegation is one of the most important solutions to develop higher education.

University autonomy was introduced in our country many years ago, but the progress was rather slow. Currently, it is supposed to be an essential breakthrough and a leading measure to remove difficulties in strongly developing higher education in Vietnam. After this workshop, the Association and the National Council of Education and Human Resource Development will report to the Prime Minister its results, and propose some policies as well as solutions to accelerate the process of autonomy and self social responsibility, international integration in the system of higher education in Vietnam.