The celebration of the 30th
Anniversary of the Government’s promulgation of the Decree on VNU’s
establishment and its 117 years of tradition is a significant milestone in
VNU’s history. This is also a valuable opportunity to extend VNU’s gratitude to
the Party and State leaders as well as its national and international partners;
and especially, to honour generations of faculty and students for their
contributions to VNU’s development, thereby upholding the traditions, promoting
the core values; fostering belief, strengthening the spirit of solidarity and
consensus in implementing VNU’s development strategy in the new period. This is
also a special occasion for VNU to review, evaluate the achievements and the
learned lessons as well as to plan major strategies, directions to bring VNU to
a higher position in the new context of the country and the world.
VNU was honoured to receive congratulations and flower baskets from
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Vo Van Thuong, Prime Minister
Pham Minh Chinh, and Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue.
Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of Vietnam Fatherland
Front Do Van Chien
delivered a speech at the ceremony
Mr. Do Van Chien, Secretary of
the Party Central Committee, Chairman of Vietnam Fatherland Front, extended his
warmest congratulations to generations of VNU’s leaders, lecturers, scientists,
students for their tireless efforts over the years.
Over the past 30 years,
generations of staff, faculty, and students of VNU have relentlessly strived
and overcome numerous challenges; achieved significant accomplishments in
training, research, technology transfer and country development service; gained
significant national reputation and steadily increased its international
standing.
“The achievements of the
30-year implementation of a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral university model
have highlighted VNU’s glorious 117-year tradition, making a significant
contribution to the country’s development and protection; deserving the
recognition of the Party and the State with the Gold Star Order and many other
noble rewards”, said Mr. Do Van Chien.
He urged VNU to
thoroughly understand the Resolution of the 8th Session of the Party Central
Committee. He also encouraged the prompt submission of proposals with solutions
regarding mechanisms and resources to the Government for consideration and
approval in order to fully realize the potential of VNU, especially for
building VNU Town in Hoa Lac into a symbol of intelligence, a source of
inspiration for learning, research, innovation, and cooperative development
among Vietnamese higher education institutions.
The journey of perseverance in innovating the multidisciplinary
university model
Decree No. 97/CP promulgated in 1993 defined VNU as a major
multidisciplinary training and research centre conducting training and research
attached to practice, and assigned with the task of providing high-quality
experts and human resources in science and technology as well as academic
support to other higher education institutions. VNU, as a central-level public
service unit using a seal bearing the national Emblem, operates under the
Decree of the Government and Operation regulations issued by the Prime
Minister, with VNU Board of Presidents appointed by the Prime Minister; has
high autonomy in training and research, finance and personnel; and has been
prioritized with an area of more than 1,200 hectares for building VNU Town in
Hoa Lac.
VNU President Le Quan reviewed the achievements and lessons of VNU
Addressing the celebration ceremony, VNU President Le Quan said that VNU
was proud to inherit the glorious 117-year-long history and traditions of the
University of Indochina (1906), Vietnam National University (1945, and the
University of Hanoi (1956), including vision thinking, high quality training,
academic excellence, active international integration; talent nurturing and training;
pioneering and innovation spirit with high readiness to serve the nation.
Gradually completing the multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral
organizational structure
To date, VNU has almost completed its
multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral organizational structure with 37
units. VNU’s training and research units operate with an open mechanism under
VNU’s management and coordination, and share its scientists and scholars,
technical facilities and technological infrastructure.
Currently, VNU is offering over 500 training programs with about 60,000
learners including nearly 1,000 international students. From 1993 to present,
there have been about 280,000 VNU graduates including 230,000 bachelors, 43,000
masters, nearly 3,000 doctors, among others.
VNU is also a unit that has its own policy for successful student
recruitment for basic sciences; Gifted students of VNU’s high schools have won
240 international Olympiad medals including 77 golds, 87 silvers, and 76
bronzes.
VNU presented flowers to show gratitude to generations of leaders
Heading for the future
Sharing the national
aspiration, continuing the 117 years of glorious traditions, VNU is advancing
with highly-specific strategies and goals along with two major new factors
affecting all activities of VNU in the current context, namely university
autonomy and infrastructure development.
The construction of a smart,
modern, sustainable VNU town in Hoa Lac with regional standards is to
accommodate 25,000 students by 2025, and a hundred-thousand population by 2030,
including 80,000 students and around 10,000 faculty and staff members, turning
the town into an innovative centre associated with businesses. VNU is also
determined to become the core centre of Hoa Lac City within Hanoi Capital.
As for faculty development,
apart from maintaining the tradition of talent incubation and nurturing, VNU
will focus on talent attraction with a flexible and effective mechanism,
creating an enabling environment for eminent scholars to fully utilize their professional
capacity, expertise and potentials to generate quality, valuable products with
instrumental contributions to the country’s socio-economic development.
Concerning training, quality
continues to be a core value and principle of action for VNU. VNU attaches
great importance to discovering and fostering talent, considering training in
basic sciences/experts/scientists/university lecturers as a fundamental task;
promotes training in engineering technology, creativity, and arts; promotes
application and practice training; focuses on international standard training,
comprehensive student development with high expertise, integrative competence,
cultural awareness, adherence to national traditions, and good physical health.
Regarding research and
innovation, VNU continues to exploit its strengths in cooperation with 12
Northwest provinces along with coastal provinces for fostering socio-economic
development of the coastal areas; promote the linkage between investors and
businesses in key economic zones. In this process, the merging of Ha Tinh
University to VNU will facilitate research and transfer related to marine
economy and promote cooperation with the neighboring friends of Laos PDR and
Cambodia.
On this occasion, VNU
was awarded the First class Labour Order as the State’s recognition of its
outstanding contributions to the nation’s construction and protection.
Within the framework of the celebration, VNU leaders awarded Medals
"For the development of VNU" to 162 individuals within VNU and beyond
to recognize and appreciate their outstanding achievements, contributions to
the building and development of VNU over the past 30 years.
VNU’s leaders awarded the Medal for the development of VNU