Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc Hanoi(VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged central agencies and localitiesto use their resources to develop three leading State-run universities inHanoi, Da Nang and HCM City into university-city complexes to herald the Industry4.0 era.
Phuc chaired ameeting in Hanoi on November 2 with leaders of the Vietnam National University(VNU) in Hanoi, VNU in HCM City (VNU-HCM), and University of Da Nang, discussingways to fast-track their university-city complex projects which have beenmostly hindered by delay in land clearance and limited funding.
He orderedministries, state agencies, local governments and the universities to allocatemore resources to turn the three universities into centres for human resourcestraining, first and foremost for the country’s key economic hubs, in order tomeet the needs of the fourth Industrial Revolution.
“These universitiesmust be those with innovative and creative thinking, helping improve thequality of universities in Vietnam during the current educational restructuring,”he stressed.
He urged theuniversities take a more active role in seeking for funding, suggesting theyshould take into account private resources and public private partnership (PPP)instead of relying only the State budget.
Concluding themeeting, the PM requested five related cities and provinces to provide directsupport to the projects, particularly in resettlement affairs. Compensation forland clearance must be directly taken from the state budget, he said. The localgovernments should also support the universities better as they would providehuman resources for their hi-tech parks.
He assigned theMinistry of Planning and Investment in coordination with the Ministry ofFinance to formulate detailed plans for the projects’ resettlement andcompensation work. He also decided to offer the three universities ODA loans tohelp them develop educational infrastructures.-VNA
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