Ha Noi (VNA)- The Ministry of Education is due to submit to the government a project on tertiary education development later December, emphasising the need to train 20,000 more Ph.D. degree holders for the teaching staff.
The move is part of the ministry's renewal ambition to catch up with the world in a wake of the country's World Trade Organisation membership which forces the tertiary educational sector to fully open by 2009.
The potential doctoral training programmes aims to add more human strength to help raise the training quality for both public and private schools.
The Ministry has also been drafting policies aimed at encouraging scientists working for scientific research institutes both at home and abroad to give lectures for undergraduates.
A freshly-issued resolution on basic and comprehensive renewal of tertiary education for 2006-10 by the government has offered many solutions. It emphasised the renewal of the training structure and personnel planning regarding both the teaching and managerial staffs in an effort to mobilise all available resources for education.
The resolution has also called on the sector to reform its managerial mechanism in a way to increase autonomy and self-responsibility for individual academic institutions, encourage healthy competition and boost international cooperation for stronger foreign investment.
These solutions are necessary to scale up vocational training and higher education to meet the target of annual 10-12 percent growth rates up to 2010, when every 10,000 people will have 200 students.
Another target is dealing with vocational training in the wake of the national WTO membership, which demands skilled labour to make up 40 percent of the total workforce.
The sector has therefore had to upgrade its training programmes to regional and international standards and broaden training access for people.
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem has informed educationists at a recent workshop that Viet Nam has committed to follow the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) in all 12 services, including education and training.
Under its commitments, Viet Nam will open almost fully its educational sector, ranging from natural sciences and technology to business administration, economics, accounting, international law and languages. The integration roadmap pushes Viet Nam to allow wholly-foreign invested projects in the tertiary education sector by 2009, the Deputy PM said.--Enditem |