The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has sent documents to ministries, branches, and localities on orientations for arranging and reorganizing public higher education and vocational education institutions.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the rearrangement of educational institutions, in addition to being consistent with the goals and policies of the Party and the Government, must also ensure that after overall arrangement and reorganization, educational institutions operate training and research effectively, with higher quality, multi-disciplinary, multi-field, strong resources and large enrollment scale.
In particular, the arrangement and reorganization is not based on the level of financial autonomy to carry out arrangement and reorganization of educational institutions, but based on geographical location, space, socio-economic situation, human resource needs of the locality, of the whole country; based on training occupations, actual operation of educational institutions; with assessment of brand factors, domestic and international influence of the unit.
5 criteria to determine schools subject to rearrangement and reorganization
In the guidance, the Ministry sets out 5 criteria to determine schools subject to rearrangement and reorganization as follows:
Level of meeting conditions and meeting standards: Educational institutions that do not meet the conditions for establishment according to current legal regulations or training majors that do not meet the conditions for opening majors and maintaining training majors.
In addition, study arranging and reorganizing schools that do not meet the standards of higher education institutions.
Training sectors and fields: Training and research institutions in many fields, serving the development of many socio-economic sectors, but the proportion of training scale and research achievements in one field is very small (except for the defense and security, health and arts sectors). Towards reducing the number of single-discipline training institutions.
Service to state management functions: The training field does not serve human resource training to serve state management functions, specialized professional activities, which are unique, highly complex, and have in-depth expertise of ministries, branches, and localities directly managing the grassroots level.
Essential: The training field of the educational institution does not play an essential (irremplaceable) role in supporting the performance of state management functions, specialized professional activities, which are unique, highly complex, and have in-depth expertise of ministries, branches, and localities directly managing the educational institution or the training field cannot recruit students, and society has no need.
The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security shall self-review and decide on plans and roadmaps for arranging and reorganizing directly affiliated educational institutions in accordance with the requirements of the unit, ensuring streamlining, effective and efficient operation.
The forms of arrangement include restructuring; continuing to maintain but must have development plans; transferring to ministries, branches, and localities accordingly; merging with other schools; dissolution.
For the group of schools that do not meet the standards of higher education institutions but are continued to be maintained, ministries, branches, and directly managed localities must have plans and investment roadmaps to ensure that they meet the standards by 2030. After 2030, the ministry will resolutely proceed to arrange and reorganize these schools if they do not meet the standards.
The Ministry of Education and Training requests relevant agencies and units to develop plans for arrangement and reorganization and report to the ministry before January 31, and complete dossiers before June 30.
