The National Assembly will supervise education and administrative reforms from next year, local newswire Vietnamnet reported Thursday.

While it’s necessary to increase the quality of higher education as part of efforts to improve human resources training, many shortcomings are still found in the establishment of schools, the National Assembly Standing Committee said.

According the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), Vietnam now has 376 universities and colleges, including 40 universities established or upgraded from colleges in 2006 and 2007 alone.

Meanwhile, the administrative reform program which started in 2001 and set to end by 2010, has evidenced many failings, the committee said. The program is one that the National Assembly is well equipped to supervise, it added.

At present, 5,500 administrative procedures are in effect at the central government, city/provincial, district and commune levels. They generate 82,786 forms and are ruled by 7,641 documents, according to figures compiled during stage one of Project No.30, which aims to simplify administrative procedures between 2007 and 2010.

Source: Thanh Nien