ACADEMY OF FINANCE
The Academy of Finance (AOF), formerly known as Central Banking School of Finance and Accounting, was established in 1963 and renamed to Hanoi University of Finance and Accounting in 1976. In 2001, the name “Academy of Finance was officially used pursuant to Decision No. 120/2001/QD-TTg on the basis of merging three institutions: Hanoi University of Finance and Accounting, Institute of Financial Research and Centre of Financial Cadre Training. In 2003, Institute of Market and Price Research and School of National Treasury Training were integrated into AOF.
- Mission, Responsibility and Function
- Mission: To provide the economy with excellence and expertise in Finance and Accounting.
- Responsibility: Academic training and scientific research, a prestiged professional trainer of business for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
- Function:
- Under-graduated and graduated degrees
- Various types of academic training: full-timed, part-timed, top-up, etc.
- Scientific research and managerial capacity building
- Institution, Training and Academic Strength
- Institutional structure:
- 13 administrative divisions
- 14 academic faculties
- 02 research institutes
- Number of lecturers and staffs (approx. 800 in total) including:
- 400 academic lecturers
- 300 managerial staffs
- 100 researchers
- Annual admission: 23,000
- Annual admission increase ratio: 10%
- Key faculties:
- Corporate Finance
- Accounting and Auditing
- Public Finance
- Banking - Insurance
- Tax - Custom
- INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
- For years, AOF’s strategic partnership were bounded in Russia, Laos, Cambodia and China.
- In 2008, the AOF’s Director Board set up a brandnew partnership with an UK university remarking a new era of dynamic international cooperative activities.
- At present, AOF has various cooperative relationships with international partners such as: the US, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Australia and NZ, etc….
Well-known programmes:
- Master Programme of International Trade and Finance (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
- Master Degree in Corporate Finance and Management Control (Toulon-Var University, France)
- MSc Programme of Finance & Investment (University of Greenwich, UK)
- MBA programme (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
- Bachelor of Commerce (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
- International Professional Accountant Programme (ACCA, UK)
- PROGRAMME PRIORITY
- Partnership of academic training (under-graduated and graduated)
- Student exchange programme
- Lecturer and staff capacity building
- Joint-programme in scientific research
Associate Prof., Dr. Nguyen Trong Co – President of the AOF
Mr. Dinh Tien Dung - Minister of Finance – attended the AOF’s 50th Anniversary Meetings and Ho Chi Minh Medal Conferring Ceremony
HO CHI MINH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICS
HISTORY – TRADITION
Established in september 1949 under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics has experienced 70 years of construction and development.
The Academy has made great contributed to the personnel training and theoretical research of the Party, served the revolution for national liberation, construction socialism and protected the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Academy's construction and development have been associated with the revolutionary cause of the Party and the people.
NAMES OF THE ACADEMY THROUGH PERIODS
- NGUYEN AI QUOC CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL (1945-1954)
- CENTRAL NGUYEN AI QUOC PARTY SCHOOL (1954-1975)
- HIGH-LEVEL NGUYEN AI QUOC PARTY SCHOOL (1975-1986)
- NGUYEN AI QUOC ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (1986-1993)
- HO CHI MINH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICS (1993-2007)
- HO CHI MINH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (2007-2013)
- HO CHI MINH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICS (FROM 2014)
FUNCTIONS TASKS
- The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is the subordinate commission of the Party Central Executive Committee and the Government; and works under the direct and regular leadership and instruction of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Party Central Executive Committee.
- The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is the national centre for training mid-level and high-ranking leaders, managers and political theory researchers of the political system.
- The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is the national centre for studying Marxism, Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought; scientific and practical foundation of the guidelines of the Party, the policies and law of the State; political science, leadership and management science and other social sciences and humanities.
TASKS, AUTHORITY
- Training cadres of the Party, State and political and social organizations.
- Conducting scientific research.
- Giving advice, recommendation and providing theoretical and practical foundation for the Party and the State in outlining guidelines for national construction and development, and renovating the organization and operation of the political system.
- Coordinating and cooperating with relevant organizations in building, guiding and managing the implementation of training programs and contents; teaching and learning methods; scientific research; training management regulations; training lecturers for Political schools in provinces and central cities.
- Coordinating and cooperating with relevant organizations in guiding the research, compilation, and verification of the Party history of localities and central ministries, agencies and organizations; documents on the life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Party and the State.
- Implementing international cooperation in cadre training and scientific research.
- Performing some tasks assigned by the Politburo and Secretariat of the Party Central Executive Committee and the Government.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
The Academy’s scientific research activities have actively contributed to the protection and development of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s Thought as well as the guidelines and policies of the Party and the law of the State.
From the scientific research results, the academy has contributed critical opinions and consultancy, and provided scientific and practical grounds for the outlining of guidelines and policies for national development. These results have positively contributed to the academy’s personnel training and the political theory education in the country.
The quality of scientific research has been improved with many valuable scientific works that have great influence in the social life. Annually, the academy has more than 200 articles from works made public under the forms of publishing books and running on newspapers, magazines, bulletins and other means of communication.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TASKS
- Implementing all-level scientific research projects.
- Carrying out projects and programmes to survey and summarize realities.
- Organizing scientific workshops and discussions.
- International cooperation in scientific research.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH GOALS
- Studying scientific and practical bases to give advice to the Party and the State in outlining guidelines for national construction and development, and renovating the organization and operation of the political system.
- Serving the building, development and improvement of the quality of the academy’s training programmes.
MAJOR RESEARCH ORIENTATIONS
- Studying the Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s Thought, scientific and practical bases for outlining the guidelines of the Party and the policies and law of the State; doing researches on political science, leadership and management sciences and some social sciences; summarizing the reality and developing theory on socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam.
- Studying and compiling the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the history of the world revolutionary movement.
- Studying, building and supplementing programmes and contents; organizing the compilation and correction of learning curricula and documents for the academy’s training programmes.
SOME OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS
The academy is responsible for some key large-scale scientific projects entrusted by the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee and the Prime Minister, including:
- “Continuing to renovate the contents of training programmes for leaders, managers, political theory and public administration cadres at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration”.
- “Carrying out research and summarization to clarify some theoretical issues on the renewal process towards socialism in Vietnam”.
- “Overview of policies for Khmer Theravada Buddhism in the Southwest Region by 2020 with a vision toward 2030”.
- “Ensuring human rights and conducting struggling measures in the field in Vietnam in the period of promoting international integration”.
Some scientific works hosted or involved by the academy have been valued as excellent ones and made monographic, research and reference books that have great influence in the political system and the society:
- History of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Volume 1 (1930-1954)
- Chronicles of the Party History
- Complete Works of Ho Chi Minh
- Book on Biography of the Party Leaders
Some scientific works of the academy that won big awards:
- The project “Some theoretical issues on Party building for a ruling Party leading the cause of socialism building” won Ho Chi Minh Award in 2010.
- The collection “History of the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia cooperation” won the Vietnam Publishers Association’s special award.
- The academy has actively implemented international cooperation activities on scientific research, coordinated with foreign delegations in organizing scientific workshops and discussions, and sent some delegations to do research and surveys abroad.
- The academy has cooperated with foreign partners in building and implementing international cooperation projects, making important contributions to improving the quality of its training and scientific research. Among those are the project “Translating classic works of Marx, Engels and Lenin from Vietnamese into Lao language” with the Lao National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, and the project “Improving the capacity of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration in training leaders and civil servants” with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).