On October 12, General Secretary and President To Lam visited and attended the opening ceremony of the 2024-2025 school year of the Vietnam Agricultural Academy and inaugurated the "Project to enhance training and science and technology capacity" using ODA capital from the World Bank.
According to VNA, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary and President To Lam acknowledged and commended the great achievements that the agriculture and rural development sector has achieved in recent times.
The General Secretary and President stated that our Party has repeatedly affirmed that education and training are the top national policies, and that science and technology are key to the country's development and prosperity.
Therefore, universities must be an important entity in the national innovation system, meeting the requirements of the knowledge economy, circular economy and digital transformation.
The Academy must strive to not only be the country's leading training and research center, but also a highly prestigious university in the region and the world, a center of innovation, and a trusted address for national startups.
The Academy needs to develop a comprehensive development plan with a suitable roadmap to become a university modeled after advanced research universities in the world.
Ministries and branches are responsible for guiding and supporting the Academy in developing and implementing this Project well.
Universities, including the Agricultural Academy, must actively improve training quality, and training programs must ensure compatibility, integration, and internationalization according to advanced standards as soon as possible.
Continue to innovate training content and methods in line with the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution and national digital transformation.
The General Secretary and President pointed out that higher education institutions, including the Vietnam Agricultural Academy, must continue to implement university autonomy more substantially and at a new level, according to the criteria and practices of higher education in developed countries.
The General Secretary and President requested the Ministry of Education and Training and relevant ministries and branches to continue researching and promulgating policies for universities to fully and synchronously implement university autonomy, in order to soon have a university education system that can "stand shoulder to shoulder with the world powers".
“University autonomy does not mean that the State does not invest, but rather invests according to the "output results" that educational institutions commit to the State; especially prioritizing orders and assigning tasks to professions that are difficult to socialize, less attractive to learners, but the country really needs and is our strength such as agriculture - forestry - fishery", the General Secretary and President noted.
The General Secretary and President requested that the Academy's research must aim to contribute to the building of "ecological agriculture, modern countryside, and civilized farmers".
At the same time, develop a smart agriculture that adapts to climate change, has green growth, high added value, on par with advanced countries in the world.
Ministries and sectors support and guide the Academy to soon pilot and expand the technology-originating enterprise model (Spin-off), bridging research in universities with businesses and practice, quickly commercializing the research results of scientists.
