Academy of Public Administration and Governance starts the 2025-2026 academic year

In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the education sector and the start of the new academic year, the Academy of Public Administration and Governance (APAG) held the opening ceremony of the 2025–2026 academic year on September 5, 2025, in Ha Noi.

Attending the ceremony were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luong Thanh Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the APAG Party Committee, Vice President of APAG; Dr. Hoang Ngoc Hai, Member of the APAG Standing Committee, Vice President of APAG; Dr. Nguyen Dang Que, Vice President of APAG (present in person at the APAG headquarters, 77 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street); Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Suu, Member of the APAG Standing Committee, Vice President of APAG; Dr. Bui Phuong Dinh, Member of the APAG Standing Committee, Vice President of APAG (present at the APAG campus, 371 Nguyen Hoang Ton Street); members of the APAG Party Committee, mass organizations, all lecturers, staff, and employees of the faculties, departments, and affiliated units of APAG; representatives of students admitted in 2022, 2023, and 2024; representatives of graduate students currently studying at the Ha Noi headquarters; and all students from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

In his remarks, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luong Thanh Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the APAG Party Committee and Vice President of APAG, emphasized the special context of the 2025-2026 academic year’s opening: the entire country is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and the National Day of September 2; for the first time, teachers and students across the country simultaneously saluted the flag and sang the national anthem at the opening ceremonies, and listened to the particularly important speech of Party General Secretary To Lam. 

For APAG, the 2025-2026 academic year will mark an important transition, affirming APAG’s position as a higher education institution moving toward international standards. This is a new stage of development, requiring the APAG  faculty and students to dare to take the lead, to take responsibility, and to constantly innovate and be creative.

To realize its mission and meet the requirements of innovation in the new context, APAG has identified five key tasks for the 2025-2026 academic year:

First, improving the quality of lecturers and staff. Teachers are the “lighthouse,” guiding the way, inspiring, and instilling aspiration and responsibility in every student.

Second, continuing to enhance the quality of training, ensuring the provision of knowledge while also fostering creativity and problem-solving capacity so that learners can be confident and ready to innovate for the development of the nation and themselves.

Third, expanding international cooperation to share and spread the values of the nation, and to be confident and proactive in integration.

Fourth, developing APAG into a center for research and policy consultation. Through this, knowledge from classrooms will be translated into practice in national governance, contributing to solving issues of the country’s development as well as challenges faced by each public official and lecturer of APAG.

Fifth, investing in technological infrastructure and modern facilities; building a smart learning environment that encourages creativity and sharing so that APAG truly becomes an “academic space station” - a place that fuels energy and aspiration for everyone’s journey of knowledge.

APAG believes that lecturers and staff members will continue to uphold their passion and dedication, helping students and learners to discover knowledge, be creative, and master their future. On behalf of APAG leadership, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luong Thanh Cuong extended his best wishes for good health and great success in the new academic year to all officials, lecturers, learners, and students.

At the ceremony, Dr. Doan Van Tinh, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Human Resource Management, on behalf of the APAG staff and lecturers, expressed determination to enhance competence, actively innovate teaching content and methods, link training activities with research, apply technology in teaching, and committed to always accompanying learners, serving the Fatherland, and working together to fulfill the APAG’s mission, realize its vision, and write new chapters in the era of the nation’s rise.

Student Chu Ha Trang presents flowers of gratitude to the APAG leadership and lecturers.

On behalf of all students at APAG, fourth-year student Chu Ha Trang (majoring in Communication and Culture) expressed her pride in studying and conducting research under APAG’s roof - a place that equips learners with knowledge, wisdom, and courage, preparing them to dedicate themselves to the Fatherland. She also expressed her deepest gratitude to the APAG’s leadership, lecturers, and staff - the devoted “ferrymen” who have tirelessly sown the seeds of knowledge and nurtured the dreams of many generations of students to soar high.