Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-Hanoi) held a conference on November 13 to gather feedback on the draft documents to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress, demonstrating its intellectual community's sense of responsibility, intellect, and dedication to the formulation of the country’s vision, objectives, and strategic decisions for development in the new period.
Stressing the significance of the coming congress, President of the VNU-Hanoi Hoang Minh Son said that the draft documents place a strong emphasis on the role of education – training, science – technology, innovation, and human development as key drivers to enhance competitiveness and promote sustainable development. These are also the areas which the university must pioneer and has distinct advantages to make strong and practical contributions to.
Notably, the draft Political Report identifies education and training as a strategic breakthrough and a foundation for raising public knowledge, training human resources, nurturing talents, and developing high-quality manpower, particularly highly skilled professionals for science – technology, innovation, digital transformation, and green transformation, Son stated.
This underscores the need to continue fundamentally and comprehensively reforming education and training to make breakthroughs in the field, build an open, modern, and integrated education system, promote university autonomy, reform governance models, and closely link higher education with the labour market demand and the development needs of localities and the country as a whole, he added.
At the conference, scientists and experts discussed several key contents of the draft documents, particularly issues related to development vision, new growth drivers, the development of education – training, science – technology, as well as high-quality human resources, and the role of the Vietnamese culture and people in the country’s sustainable development.
Tran Quoc Binh, Vice Rector of the University of Science under the VNU-Hanoi, said that to develop high-quality human resources that meet the country’s development needs in the new era, strategies are especially important for building a modern national education system on par with regional and global standards. In addition, it is necessary to comprehensively improve mechanisms and policies for training, utilisation, remuneration, recognition, and forming a creative working environment for experts, especially top-tier ones with significant contributions to the country.
Chu Duc Trinh, Rector of the University of Technology under the VNU-Hanoi, stated that Vietnam will have limited room for national development if it does not rely on science and technology – a lesson learned by many countries around the world.
To confidently advance to the new era, he proposed the country further participate in higher value-added stages of the industrial chain and build an industrial system that becomes the centre of the development ecosystem, he added.
Regarding institutional issues, researchers from the VNU-Hanoi's Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science emphasised that the Party and the State should study and select a model in which the State creates and guides development to leverage institutional advantages and build the most effective governance and administrative system.
The two core factors ensuring the success of this state model are achieving successful digital transformation, which provides a cornerstone for a modern national governance system; and training and developing a new generation of leadership and management personnel whose core competency is innovation capacity and development leadership./.
