The Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution 18-NQ/TW (Central Steering Committee) has just issued a document on the arrangement of state-owned enterprise units and focal points within agencies and organizations in the political system.
In this document, the Central Steering Committee has oriented research, proposals, and arrangement of public service units and state-owned enterprises.
The document clearly stated that agencies, units, organizations and localities closely follow the Party's guidelines and policies; proactively and actively study the practical situation, characteristics and characteristics of each sector, field, agency, unit, organization and locality, forecast development trends, propose plans to reorganize public service units, schools, medical facilities, state-owned enterprises, streamline internal organizations within agencies, units and organizations in the political system to ensure effective, efficient and efficient operations; decentralize and delegate power thoroughly and effectively.
The content of the orientation on school arrangement is clearly stated, at the Central level:
Build a number of advanced schools and training centers specializing in artificial intelligence.
Focus on developing the system of vocational training institutions; arrange and reorganize existing vocational training institutions to ensure streamlining, efficiency, and compliance with standards. Strongly decentralize the management of vocational training institutions to local authorities.
Arrange and restructure higher education institutions; merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions; eliminate intermediate levels, ensure streamlined, unified and effective governance; research and merger of research institutes with higher education institutions, transfer some universities to local management.
In the locality: Basically keep existing high schools, junior high schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and public kindergartens, propose to arrange and adjust if necessary in a convenient direction to serve the needs of people and students; promote socialization in places with sufficient conditions.
Arrange in the direction of streamlining, reducing focal points, improving the quality of activities: Merge vocational education centers and continuing education centers into vocational secondary schools equivalent to high schools under the Department of Education and Training to provide public services in inter-ward and commune areas.
Maximum of each province and city has no more than 3 vocational schools to train skilled workers to serve socio-economic development, attracting investment in the locality (excluding schools that self-insure regular expenses or more).
In Resolution 71-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in education and training development, the Politburo clearly stated the urgent need to build a strategic framework for higher education development. Implement the arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions; merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions; eliminate intermediate levels, ensure streamlined, unified and effective governance; study the merger of research institutes with higher education institutions; strengthen state management of higher education institutions, research the transfer of some universities to local management to improve management efficiency and better meet local human resource training requirements.
Recently, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Directive No. 26/CT-TTg dated September 15, 2025 of the Prime Minister requesting ministries, branches and localities to strengthen conditions to ensure the quality of effective implementation of tasks for the 2025-2026 school year.
The Directive also clearly states the urgent need to build a strategic framework for the development of higher education. Implement the arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions; merge and dissolve higher education and vocational education institutions that do not meet standards.
