Capital Law to convert Ha Noi into major center for high-quality education
VGP - The newly-approved Capital Law is expected to assist Ha Noi in improving education and gradually make the city a center for high-quality education and training in the country.
A corner of VinUni, a private and nonprofit university located in Ha Noi
Bui Tat Thang, former Director of the Institute of Development Strategy, said that Ha Noi has been working on three major projects that are closely interconnected: Developing the capital plan, adjusting the general plan for the construction of the capital, formulating the amended Capital Law (completed, approved by the National Assembly on June 28, 2024).
He added that the Vietnamese Government's recent resolution on the direction and tasks of the capital to 2030, with a vision to 2045, has identified a number of important orientations for Ha Noi's development: building a city-within-a-city in Ha Noi North (Dong Anh, Me Linh, Soc Son districts) and in Ha Noi West (Hoa Lac, Xuan Mai districts); developing a smart city along the Nhat Tan Bridge-Noi Bai Airport highway; and creating underground urban space, green space, and public space.
"Based on these orientations, Ha Noi would focus resources on new urban developments and modernize the urban profile."
Potentials for high-quality education
Ha Noi owns abundant conditions to become a city of education and training, capitalizing on its high-quality human resources, the position of a center for gathering talents of the whole country, being home to a large number of leading experts and scientists, with a network of centers, research institutes and the largest universities in Viet Nam.
About 80 percent of the country's universities and research institutes; 82 percent of the national key laboratories; 65 percent of the professors, associate professors, doctors, and PhDs are based in Ha Noi.
"Ha Noi enjoys excellent preferential policies, allowing a legal corridor that strongly supports comprehensive development," Thang said.
However, in the face of new demands, such as keeping pace with the capitals of other countries around the world, Ha Noi will focus more on a number of areas to truly promote its unique strengths and its leading role in national development.
"These include modern industries and fields that apply high technology, such as finance, banking, design, law, science and technology, education, and healthcare," Thang emphasized.
Challenges lie ahead
Bui Tat Thang said that despite these achievements, Ha Noi's education and training system still faces two major challenges namely the general education infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth, resulting in a shortage of schools and classes and secondly, universities are concentrated in the downtown area, leading to infrastructure overload
Therefore, in order to develop the educational space, Ha Noi needs to solve two obstacles at the same time. The first is to build more than 80 new high schools and high-quality middle schools. The second is to try not to expand the land area for existing hospitals, industrial clusters, higher education institutions, and vocational training facilities in downtown Ha Noi.
According to the Ha Noi People's Committee, the second campus of 25 universities is expected to be built in the Hoa Lac, Xuan Mai and Son Tay areas under this plan.
The Capital Law will have a significant impact on the development of the city's universities and colleges, creating a basis for diversifying their forms of education, expanding cooperation with many countries, and attracting high-quality human resources to the capital.
"Universities and colleges in the capital must take the initiative to seize opportunities, make use of the specific and outstanding mechanisms of the Capital Law to make a breakthrough, and contribute to the development of education, economy and high-quality human resources for the capital," Thang said./.
