Private institutions to benefit from law revision

A revision to Vietnam’s Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, reports Viet Nam News.

Chu Hong Thanh, former director of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Legal Department, said the role of private universities had been undervalued socially and legally. The current legal framework has yet to facilitate the development and has only highlighted the supervision of private universities, Thanh said at a workshop on legal policies for tertiary education held last week in Ho Chi Minh City.

In recent years, many private universities have achieved breakthroughs and gained a good reputation. However, private universities need favourable legal policies to enable them to reform and develop in a more comprehensive way, he said.
Full report on the Viet Nam News site