Da Nang is now in need of about 8,000 billion VND to restart its 286.5m² University Village project which has been suspended for 2 decades.  Such an estimated amount will be spent on compensation, site clearance and basic construction work for the project.

A view of the meeting

The figure was officially released at Tuesday’s meeting which was organised by the University of Da Nang (UDN) to identify its key tasks for the ongoing 2017 – 2018 academic year.

The large-scale project was officially approved by the Vietnamese Prime Minister on 9 December 1997.  It is scheduled to encompass 110ha in Da Nang’s Ngu Hanh Son District and 190ha in Quang Nam Province’s Dien Ban District. The UDN is the project’s developer. 

On his working visit to the UDN on February, the Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Education and Training, the authorities of Da Nang and Quang Nam Province and other relevant government agencies to clearly lay out all difficulties to revive the project after such a long delay. 

According to the UDN’s Deputy Director, Mr Ngo Van Duong, the UDN’s leaders have already reported to the Ministries of Education and Training, and Planning and Investment, about the project’s estimated costs, and the UDN is waiting for detailed instructions from the national government.

Furthermore, the UDN is seeking help from a suitable consultancy company to make suitable adjustments to the project’s master plan in line with the UDN’s development strategies by 2025, with a vision towards 2035.

Apart from the revival of the University Village project, the UDN is currently preparing for necessary documentation for the establishment of its new member schools in the years ahead. 

In detail, the existing faculties of IT in the universities of Education, Economics, and the Junior College of IT will be merged into the University of IT and Communications.

Meanwhile, the University of Technical Education will be founded based on a merger between the current faculties of Technical Education at the University of Technology and at the Junior College of Technology.

The Viet Nam- UK University will be established based on a merger between the Viet Nam-UK Institute for Research and Executive Education, which based at the UDN at 42 Le Duan, and the hi-tech spearhead faculties at the UDN’s existing member schools, plus help from the UK government.

With regard to other key tasks, importance will be attached to promoting the application of ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) in the UDN, and enhancing its publication initiatives in ISI and SCOPUS journals.

The UDN now has a total of 2,315 staff members, 1,409 of whom are lecturers.  Eight of UDN's lecturers are professors, 83 are associate professors, 395 are doctors of philology.