Attending were Mr. Le Tien Chau, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister.
Can Tho University has nearly 60 years of construction and development, has affirmed its position as a key higher education institution of the Mekong Delta region with a large training scale (nearly 50,000 people), a high-quality teaching staff (1,100 lecturers) and a diverse system of occupations (214 training programs).
Can Tho University not only trains hundreds of thousands of bachelors, masters, and doctors, but is also a reputable scientific research and technology transfer center, especially in areas associated with sustainable development of the region.
Meanwhile, Southern College of Law is gradually affirming its position as a reputable training and fostering institution for legal and judicial officials in the Southern region.
The school has trained more than 3,000 intermediate students, 326 college students in legal majors; organized hundreds of professional training classes for over 12,200 students who are judicial - civil status officials, grassroots mediators and local officials, along with linking enrollment, organizing training for judicial and judicial support positions.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Tien Chau informed that the merger of the Southern Law College into Can Tho University is not simply a reorganization of the organizational structure, but an important step to create new development space, focus resources, improve the quality of training, scientific research and the efficiency of state investment; and at the same time better promote the potential and strengths of the two educational institutions.
In that spirit, the Deputy Prime Minister requested Can Tho University to focus on implementing well the orientations: continue to innovate university governance, promote autonomy associated with responsibility; restructure industries and training programs according to the development needs of the region and the country; make scientific research, innovation and technology transfer the main driving force for development...
Deputy Prime Minister Le Tien Chau also requested universities in the Mekong Delta region to form a regional higher education linkage ecosystem through strengthening coordination, resource sharing, program interconnection, training linkage, research coordination, sharing laboratories, digital learning materials, databases and expert teams.
In which, Can Tho University needs to promote its core role, connect; other schools promote their own strengths, complement each other, and jointly serve the common development strategy of the region.
Previously, on May 6, the Prime Minister signed and issued Decision No. 805/QD-TTg on merging the Southern Law College into Can Tho University.
