Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: It is necessary to raise the level of VNU in the new period

Also attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, leaders of the Government Office, relevant ministries and sectors: Education and Training, Science and Technology, Construction, Finance, Planning and Investment. Investment, Home Affairs, Health and Hanoi People’s Committee.

On the side of VNU, there was the Secretary of the Party Committee, the Director of VNU; members of the Board of Directors; leaders of universities, faculties, member research institutes, VNU Office, Party Committee Office, and functional departments of VNU.

Speaking at the meeting, VNU President Le Quan deeply thanked the Prime Minister for the attention of the Prime Minister to VNU and reported on the operation situation of VNU in recent time as well as presented a number of recommendations to the Prime Minister.

Reporting to the Prime Minister, VNU President Le Quan said, “Thanks to fierce innovation, pioneering creativity in organization and implementation of plans and tasks, VNU has established and always strives to implement.” Currently, the goal is to become a large, leading center of training, scientific research and knowledge transfer in the country, with regional and international prestige, worthy of the Party and State’s trust and expectations.

In the past time, VNU has continued to “have a transformation” to rise strongly, affirm its reputation, establish its position as the leading university in Vietnam and enroll in the group of universities with “high standing in the region” and the world. gender. VNU’s position has improved markedly in international rankings, for 3 consecutive years (2019-2021), it is in the world group 801-1000. In 2020, according to the announcement of the QS Ranking Organization (UK), VNU is in the group of 101-150 universities with a period of less than 50 years of establishment with leading educational quality in the world. International ranking by industry, the field achieved good results with many fields in the world 500.

VNU President Le Quan emphasized, in the context of limited investment resources, very low compared to the requirements to build a university of regional and international stature, the fact that VNU has a name, and links Continued promotion in the regional and international university rankings is the outstanding effort and effort of the Party Committee and the leadership collective of the periods, as well as of cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees, etc. employees, students, and students of VNU. This has proved that the establishment of VNU is a strategic and consistent policy of the Party and State, in line with the development trend of world higher education.

“The difference and effectiveness from the organizational model of VNU brings outstanding achievements in pioneering innovation, unique training products, and science and technology that only multi-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary universities can implement. yes,” said VNU President Le Quan.

VNU President Le Quan affirmed, “VNU’s organizational model allows member units and affiliated units to use and share common resources, thereby complementing, connecting, linking and unifying with each other, create synergy, link the will, strive for the same goal, create added values ​​in training and scientific research. In particular, interdisciplinary and inter-unit training programs have contributed to providing thousands of bachelors, masters and doctors with interdisciplinary thinking and wisdom for key economic sectors of the country.

On the basis of strengths in integrating interdisciplinary intelligence, closely combining the fields of natural sciences and social sciences – humanities, technology and engineering, VNU has successfully performed many high-caliber tasks. country, solving many large and complex problems of real life that cannot be solved by external mono-disciplinary universities. VNU has actively participated in summarizing practices, researching theories, proposing to develop guidelines, guidelines and decisions of the Party and State; has contributed to the formulation of socio-economic development strategies and is currently participating in the planning of 14 provinces in the Northwest region.

In order to quickly transfer the achievements in training and research to serve society, VNU pays special attention to strengthening cooperation with domestic and foreign enterprises and partners. Enterprises and corporations are both development partners and users of human resources, as well as support units for VNU to strengthen its development capacity and provide high-quality services to the society.

Besides, implementing the guidelines and policies of the Party and Government and the call of the Prime Minister in the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic, VNU staff and students have actively taken specific actions. can: donate, support the Wave and Computer Program for children; participate in providing medical human resources for southern localities; conduct research reports to advise the Government on stabilizing economic and social development in the post-Covid-19 period. VNU has also promoted digital transformation and accelerated the implementation of the Digital University strategy; ensure the progress and quality of teaching and learning. Recently, VNU held a ceremony to launch the online channel to support primary education, and the quality channel for higher and vocational education.

At the meeting, VNU President Le Quan also presented VNU’s development orientations in the coming time and recommendations to take advantage of favorable conditions and overcome challenges to bring VNU’s development as expected.

According to VNU President Le Quan, the core “keyword” in VNU’s future development orientation is “high quality”. Accordingly, VNU prioritizes strong investment in traditional basic science training disciplines to train and develop science and technology human resources, contributing to strengthening research foundation and capacity and staff. talented science department; give priority to training university lecturers and scientists for universities and colleges throughout the country; build a contingent of high-level theoretical research and propaganda staff for the Party.

VNU also expanded interdisciplinary training programs, inter-units, providing human resources with interdisciplinary intelligence for important fields of the country; develop and scale up  training programs technique – new technology directly related to the fourth revolution. Especially, VNU piloted and replicated advanced training models in the world into Vietnam.

In science and technology development, VNU promotes research in the fields of social sciences and humanities and educational sciences; participate in practical review, theoretical research; policy advice for the Party and State. At the same time, strengthen research activities in a number of natural science fields in which VNU has advantages through basic research programs.

VNU focuses on developing a number of interdisciplinary fields between natural sciences, engineering sciences and technology, social sciences and humanities for sustainable development. Along with that, VNU promotes the implementation of scientific research directions and develops new technologies, priority technologies with high applicability, which VNU has advantages, especially digital, information and biological technologies. , artificial intelligence, blockchain, 3D printing, internet of things, cybersecurity, mechatronics, automation, biomedical electronics, energy, environmental technology.

VNU actively participates in the global innovation network. Strengthen cooperation with partners, especially large domestic and foreign enterprises to develop large international and transnational research projects and programs; cooperate in research, transfer and commercialization of scientific and technological products.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that VNU has always been a pioneer in educational innovation. The Party, State and Government expect a great university city in Hoa Lac. The Deputy Prime Minister also highly appreciated that VNU has linked its mission with socio-economic development of the country. VNU continues to demonstrate its national responsibility in participating in chairing and implementing research programs of great stature, with contemporary values, great national and humanistic values, with scientific and practical significance. High importance for the development of society and the country such as: Program of Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the Northwest, Quoc Chi, Center for Documentation of Vietnam Studies, Translation and promotion of the quintessential value of classic works Eastern,…

Especially, in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, VNU is always ready to join hands and work with society during difficult times. VNU staff and students were present at the front lines against the epidemic. Many scientific works that closely combine interdisciplinary research by VNU scientists have contributed to medicine for health promotion, disease treatment, and COVID-19 disease prevention.

City leaders Hanoi, ministries and branches also expressed their support for VNU’s recommendations and proposals and said they would continue to work together to remove obstacles and increase resources to build and develop VNU.

On behalf of the Government, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh praised the results achieved by the managers, scientists, officials, employees, students, students of VNU.

The Prime Minister stated a number of impressive results and achievements that VNU has achieved that need to be further promoted in the coming time. On the basis of inheritance, stability, innovation and development, VNU has a team of staff and scientists with great potential; has a glorious and proud history with many leaders of the Party, State and agencies in the political system having studied and trained here. VNU has also received love, trust and admiration from the people; recognition in international ratings and reviews; the interest of the Party and the State, such as setting aside more than 1,000 hectares of land to build VNU in Hoa Lac.

The Prime Minister basically agrees with the orientations and recommendations that VNU has stated. In order to continue to develop and improve its position in the period 2021 – 2025, the Prime Minister suggested that VNU needs to focus its resources on implementing the following contents:

Firstly, it is necessary to raise the level of VNU in the new period when the whole country implements the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress; there is a mechanism to maximize the release of huge human resources for the staff to promote and contribute more; handle harmoniously, rationally and effectively the relationship between the State, society and the market, strengthen public-private cooperation.

Second, focus on concreting and institutionalizing the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, the Resolution 29 of the Central Committee on fundamental and comprehensive renovation of education and training, and Resolution 20 on scientific and public development. technology, resolution of the Party Congress of VNU. Regarding the organization, apparatus, payroll, autonomy mechanism, Party building work and cadres, it is necessary to closely follow and concretize the Party’s resolutions on these issues and the Law on Higher Education. The Prime Minister requested the development of programs, projects, plans, master plans, mechanisms and policies, focusing on leading, directing, allocating resources, with specific goals for each year and in the next 5 years to raise the level of VNU.

Third, focus on overcoming inadequacies, limitations and weaknesses, ensuring smooth, smooth and more efficient operation of the apparatus, especially in training, research and mission implementation; overcome by spreading investment, lack of focus, focus, lack of finishing when resources are limited.

Fourthly, contributing to raising people’s intellectual level, training high-quality human resources, fostering talents according to the Party’s Resolution, effectively and efficiently serving three strategic breakthroughs.

Fifth, the issue of training is a pillar of VNU. The Prime Minister especially noted the need to pay attention to the issue of students, teachers, and schools, identifying learners as the center, the school as the foundation, and the teacher as the driving force. Focus on training human resources in basic science subjects – this is a traditional field of the school; training human resources for VNU and other universities. Strengthen linkages and joint ventures with localities, businesses, organizations… to train human resources not only at national but also international level, focusing on foreign language and informatics training in the context of integration extensive. Innovating enrollment, focusing on output control. Acquire advanced training technologies.

Sixth, research work should focus on summarizing practice, serving major national programs, and practical problems posed in the country’s socio-economic development process. The Prime Minister suggested a number of research issues such as national territorial sovereignty; building a socialist democracy; policy advice on innovation, the 4th industrial revolution; building an advanced culture imbued with national identity; regional cultural characteristics; policies and solutions for epidemic prevention, economic recovery and development; resource depletion, population aging, climate change, circular economy, green economy, renewable energy; digital conversion; Post-harvest technology, branding of agricultural products…

Seventh, on university autonomy, position and role of VNU, the Prime Minister requested to summarize the practice of implementing the VNU model from 1993 to present, closely following the Party’s guidelines and policies, based on regulations provisions of the law and the actual situation to make specific proposals to the competent authorities. The common spirit is to increase authority, increase decentralization, increase autonomy, be flexible, increase investment to take public investment to lead investment.

The important task noted by the Prime Minister is to focus on completing the construction project of VNU in Hoa Lac with high determination, great efforts, drastic and effective actions with new thinking and ways of doing things. The Prime Minister emphasized the requirement to deploy the project in the direction of the national university urban area, the construction may diverge, but the planning must have a long-term vision. The Prime Minister suggested a “5 in 1” model in this university urban area: Talent training center; modern technology transfer research center; innovation center at national and international level; smart and modern university urban; center for public-private partnership testing and research training.