Professor Le Quan: There needs to be a policy to help poor children study well and ensure their right to go to university.

(NLDO) - Delegate Le Quan suggested that there should be good policies so that poor children who study well or good students can access scholarships to ensure the right to go to university.

Speaking at the National Assembly forum on the morning of July 25, Mr. Le Quan, National Assembly delegate from Ca Mau province (Director of Hanoi National University), said that by implementing autonomy, university education institutions make a very important contribution to reducing the number of staff receiving salaries from the state budget.

Professor Le Quan, National Assembly delegate in Ca Mau province - Photo: Quochoi.vn

The Government 's policies and thinking have also changed and many policies have changed when autonomy is no longer understood to be associated with cutting regular expenditure from the budget. However, implementation is still very confusing, the transition from regular expenditure to ordered expenditure is extremely difficult and lacks a legal corridor.

According to delegate Le Quan, areas such as national security or education can be ordered because these are targets for the public sector, while the private sector is mostly businesses that cannot directly sign orders, except for some large businesses that need deep technical human resources and high professional skills.

Excerpt from speech of National Assembly Delegate Le Quan

In the past, there were many universities and vocational training institutions that switched to autonomy but did not receive regular expenditures, which was shocking. It is necessary to understand that prioritizing the development of universities and vocational training requires the state budget to increase every year, not decrease. Delegate Le Quan recommended to the Government that in the coming time, it is necessary to switch from regular expenditures for autonomous institutions to investment expenditures, which may not be salaries but can absolutely be investment expenditures to help us improve quality and attract learners.

Regarding the issue of autonomy, policies, viewpoints and tuition fees, Mr. Le Quan said that the current tuition fees from the budget only ensure a low level, the current tuition fees of schools are also low. Currently, there are often regulations on tuition ceilings (ie the highest tuition fees), this ceiling is very low compared to the expectations and requirements of educational institutions.

Therefore, according to delegate Le Quan, there needs to be a really good policy so that poor students who study well or good students can access scholarships to ensure the right to go to university; ensure that tuition fees are also a technical barrier to avoid students rushing into university and becoming university students; tuition fees must be considered as a source of investment for students, international practice is that tuition fees are always equal to nearly two years of salary after graduation.

In addition, it is necessary to change the mindset about state management. Autonomy means managing output quality and having a set of indicators to evaluate the effectiveness and quality of each training facility, each profession, employment issues, and whether the quality of jobs meets the requirements of society.

"Autonomy means that each facility must be accountable for how it contributes to society. Autonomy is still understood in the mindset of counting square meters, counting teachers to set enrollment quotas, the chairman of the school board must be an employee... all of which are limitations," said delegate Le Quan.

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