Decision 2377/QD-TTg in 2014 approving the pilot project to renovate the operation mechanism of Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics in the period 2014 - 2017 issued by the Prime Minister

DECISION

APPROVING THE SCHEME ON PILOT INNOVATION OF OPERATIONAL MECHANISM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY DURING 2014 - 2017  

THE PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the Law on the Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;

Pursuant to the Law on Education dated June 14, 2005 and the Law on amendments to the Law on Education dated November 25, 2009;

Pursuant to the Law on Higher Education dated June 18, 2012;

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 49/2010/ND-CP dated May 14, 2010; the Government’s Decree No. 74/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 amending certain articles of the Government’s Decree No. 49/2010/ND-CP dated May 14, 2010 on reduction and exemption of tuition fees, support for learning cost, collection and use of tuition applicable to educational institutions belonging to the national education system from the 2010 – 2011 academic year to the 2014 – 2015 academic year;

Pursuant to the Government’s Resolution No. 77/NQ-CP dated October 24, 2014 on pilot renovation of the operational mechanism of public tertiary education institutions during 2014-2017;

Considering the request of the President of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City,

DECIDES:

Article 1. To approve the Scheme on the pilot innovation of the operational mechanism of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City during 2014 – 2017 (referred to as the Scheme) with the following principal contents:

I. Objectives

1. General objectives

The University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (referred to as “UEH”) shall actively, reasonably and effectively utilize its resources to innovate and improve its operational quality in terms of training, scientific research, organizational apparatus and personnel, and reduction of funding from state budget; and provide opportunity to approach UEH’s training programs for poor students and social policy beneficiaries.

2. Specific objectives

a) Improve training quality, ensuring that learners are trained to meet standards of graduate quality as committed by UEH; are provided with the opportunity of approaching scientific and technological applications; and are provided with skill training and improvement of professional ethics.  

b) Develop training programs by referring training programs provided by the world’s modern tertiary education institutions for meeting social needs.

c) Develop training scale in a reasonable way in conformity with UEH’s sources; attach special importance to high-quality training programs and ordered programs.

d) Step up the scientific research, including fundamental research and applied research. Improve revenues from the scientific research and technological transfer.

dd) Strengthen the international cooperation for supporting and stepping up UEH's training activities and scientific research.

e) Evolve UEH’s organizational structure and personnel under the model of the world’s modern tertiary education institution; revise procedures and apply information technology to the quality management system for improving UEH’s managerial capacity; create environment and conditions for developing UEH’s potentials and strengths in the best way.

g) Fulfill the social responsibility of the national’s key public tertiary education institution with scholarship and study encouragement policies and student credit policies; facilitate poor students, social policy beneficiaries and student with difficult circumstance in getting opportunity to study at this university.

II. Innovation contents

1. Performance of scientific research and training duties

a) Establish and perform training programs, ensuring qualifications and skills of graduates; ensure that its lecturers, managers, textbooks, learning materials and facilities shall satisfy requirements as regulated.

b) Actively open bachelor's programs, master's programs and doctoral programs in conformity with the UEH’s lecturers, managers and facilities to meet the needs of the society.

c) Carry out the educational quality accreditation in accordance with regulations on quality accreditation of tertiary education institutions for the purpose of ensuring training quality.

d) Make plans on enrolment in accordance with requirements and schedules of the Ministry of Education and Training and in conformity with the social needs.

dd) Print, issue and manage diplomas and certificates in all training levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels).

e) Exercise the autonomy in scientific research; determine scientific research duties and appoint entities to perform scientific research duties.

g) Exercise the autonomy in organizing educational association programs (with issuance of diplomas), research and development with foreign partners.

2. Organizational apparatus

a) Define functions and tasks of UEH's affiliated units through its operational and operation regulations; decide and assume responsibility for the establishment, merger, division, separation and dissolution of UEH’s affiliated units for ensuring the apparatus’s operational effectiveness.

b) Carry out the recruitment on the basis of project on job positions approved by the university council; ensure the openness, transparency, impartiality, objectiveness and compliance with the law; and ensure the competitiveness while taking into account the preference for priority objects as regulated.

3. Finance

a) Tuition

- UEH shall collect tuition on the stable basis in accordance with the plan stated in the following scheme:

Unit: Million dongs/student/year

- UEH must calculate and publicly announce specific tuition rates for groups of training disciplines before the enrollment, ensuring that the average tuition rate (of general programs) shall not exceed UEH’s maximum tuition rate as prescribed in this Decision.

- As for students who enrolled before the effective date of this Decision, UEH shall increase the tuition rate as of the effective date of this Decision provided that the increase rate shall not exceed 30% per each academic year.

b) Non-business revenues

UEH shall perform training support activities and services to improve training quality and serve learners.  Revenues from these activities are publicly announced on the basis of taking revenues to offset expenses without accumulations.

c) Salaries and incomes

Apart from rank and grade-based salaries as prescribed by the State, UEH shall decide on additional incomes for its employees by using the positive difference between revenues and expenses under its internal spending regulations on the grounds of impartiality and transparency.  

d) Use of revenues

- Exercise the autonomy in making plans and decisions on using UEH’s lawful revenues to invest in facilities as regulated by the government.  

- After covering recurrent expenses, UEH’s remaining positive difference between revenues and expenses may be used to set aside to the following funds: the fund for the development of non-business activities, the award fund, the welfare fund, the fund for income stabilization and student assistance funds.

- Collected tuition and non-business revenues shall be deposited at commercial banks.

4. Policies on scholarships and tuition

a) UEH shall support for the entire difference between its tuition rate and the reduced or exempted amount of tuition as regulated by State for students who are social policy beneficiaries and poor students.

b) Other than students who are eligible for tuition reduction and exemption under State’s policies, UEH establishes and implements policies on scholarship and study encouragement for students with excellent achievements and policy beneficiaries.

5. Investment and purchase

a) Actively balance sources of revenues and mobilize other lawful sources for promoting the overall development of UEH’s facilities under the model of the world’s modern tertiary education institution.

b) Continue the execution of UEH’s investment projects under the Decision on approving investment projects with funds from state budget and UEH’s accumulations by the Minister of Education and Training (Decision No. 3971/QD-BGDDT dated September 26, 2014).

6. Regulations on supervision

a) The university council shall make decision on operational strategies and orientations of UEH; supervise the implementation of resolutions made by the university council, the execution of democracy regulations on its activities and the implementation of this Decision.

b) UEH shall publicly announce its internal spending regulations. UEH’s internal spending regulations shall be annually amended and supplemented by means of taking opinions in the whole university, and approved at the meeting of delegates of its officials and public employees.

c) UEH shall publicly announce regulations on supervision of lecturers, officials, public employees and learners on the operation of UEH’s leading apparatus.

7. UEH shall exercise other rights and obligations as regulated in the Government’s Resolution No. 77/NQ-CP dated October 24, 2014 on the pilot renovation of the operational mechanism of public tertiary education institutions during 2014-2017 and other relevant documents.

Article 2. Implementation

1. Relevant ministries, regulatory bodies and local governments shall, within the ambit of their functions and tasks regulated in the Government’s Resolution No. 77/NQ-CP dated October 24, 2014 on the pilot renovation of the operational mechanism of public tertiary education institutions during 2014-2017 and other relevant legislative documents, perform the supervision and give assistance to UEH during the implementation of this Decision.

2. Relevant state authorities shall continue to provide guidance and assistance to UEH on the performance and completion of UEH’s investment projects.

Article 3. This decision takes effect as of January 01, 2015.

Article 4. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Heads of Government’s agencies, Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities, heads of relevant organizations and relevant individuals shall implement this Decision./.

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