It is necessary to evaluate the quality of domestic universities objectively, to see that the issuance of Resolution 71 is timely and urgent. Vietnam has 264 universities, nearly double after 20 years, but not many are in the " pot" of prestigious schools in the region and Asia.
To be honest, the presence of many schools among the universities today is only to provide degrees to those in need, not to provide high-quality human resources for society. Many university degrees of training institutions have been turned away by agencies, organizations, and the business community to say that.
So, what is the use of many universities?
Resolution 71 requires the implementation of "arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions, merging and dissolving non-standard institutions". Not only in the academic world and higher education experts, but the public is interested in the policy of restructuring the Vietnamese higher education system.
The merger is not a mechanical streamlining, but an improvement of the quality of higher education. The goal is that in the next 5 years, at least 8 higher education institutions will be in the top 200 universities in Asia and one higher education institution will be in the top 100 universities in the world according to prestigious international rankings.
Setting those rankings is nothing other than to achieve the goal of training high-quality human resources, including elite intellectuals. In the competition of the digital age, it is impossible not to have the world's leading scientists, otherwise they will fall behind and be outdated.
Not merging universities in a mechanical way, not streamlining them with an administrative order, but gathering a team of scientists, effectively exploiting facilities, standardizing and improving training programs. University institutions that are not reputable, cannot train high-quality human resources, and dissolved are appropriate.
Universities that are not strong or merge to optimize resources for investment in scientific research, have inventions that are not only valuable nationwide but also in an international academic environment.
Hopefully, after implementing Resolution 71, Vietnam will have a high-quality university system, training a generation of intellectuals with practical skills, making a meaningful contribution to building Vietnam into a developed country with high income by 2045.
