Hanoi(VNS/VNA) - A plan to stratify the higher education network and develop universities with unique strengths was revealed by the Ministry of Education and Training on August 10. It is one of several steps being taken to actualise goals set in the Political Bureau’s Resolution 71 on creating breakthroughs in education and training, as well as in the Government's the Higher Education Development Strategy and the master plan for building a higher education institution network. Some higher education institutions will be given the opportunity to focus on boosting their unique strengths. The education ministry will develop a set of criteria to screen and select these institutions to develop into elite or excellent universities across different disciplinary groups, according to Quan. The stratification of the higher education network has also been studied by the ministry’s Department of Higher Education, said department director Nguyen Tien Thao.