Ministry of Education and Training announced draft regulations on university standards

The Ministry of Education and Training has just announced a draft circular regulating standards for higher education institutions, which sets out 6 standards, 26 criteria and how to determine standard indicators.

A university will not be qualified if the rate of student dissatisfaction is above 30%.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, university standards are used as a basis for planning and arranging the university network and investing in the development of the university education system in accordance with the provisions of law.

At the same time, review, appraise and monitor the conditions for allowing training activities and suspending training activities for training facilities and branches of higher education institutions according to regulations.

Standards for higher education institutions are also used to determine the conditions for ensuring quality and measures to improve the quality of education of training institutions; to implement the responsibility of accountability, publicity and transparency of information of training institutions towards learners, society and state management agencies according to regulations.

In addition, university standards are also used to review, check, and monitor conditions and criteria for opening majors, maintaining training majors, determining enrollment targets, and organizing enrollment for training institutions.

According to the draft, the Ministry of Education and Training issued with this circular the standards for higher education institutions including 6 standards and 26 criteria.

The 6 criteria for evaluating higher education institutions include: Organization and administration; Lecturers; Teaching and learning conditions; Finance; Admissions and training; Research and innovation.

Some notable criteria are that key leadership positions (chairman of the school council/university council and principal/director) are filled in a timely manner, and the total vacancy period for all positions must not exceed 12 months.

Or the rate of students satisfied with lecturers about teaching quality and effectiveness must reach over 70%.

The percentage of graduates satisfied with their overall learning process and experience at the school must be above 70%.

In addition, training institutions must demonstrate their research and innovation capacity, demonstrated through their science and technology revenue and scientific publication capacity.

The criterion is that the proportion of revenue from scientific and technological activities over total revenue, calculated on average over the last 3 years, must reach at least 5%; for training institutions with doctoral training, it must reach at least 10%.

The average number of scientific publications per full-time lecturer must reach at least 0.3 articles/year. For training institutions with doctoral training (not specialized schools), only articles listed in the Web of Science (WoS) or Scopus are counted.

Every year, training institutions will conduct assessments according to standards and criteria and prepare a report on the implementation of standards for the previous year (reporting year), and submit it to the Ministry of Education and Training before April 30. The time for collecting statistical data is December 31 of the reporting year.

Based on management requirements, the Ministry of Education and Training organizes independent assessments or appraisals of standard implementation reports for a number of training institutions, requiring training institutions to explain incomplete or inaccurate content. Training institutions are responsible for editing and sending back the edited report to the Ministry.

Before June 30 every year, training institutions shall publish reports on the implementation of standards on their websites and include the results of the assessment of standards and criteria in their annual reports, and at the same time update information on the higher education management information system of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Substandard training facilities or training facilities with substandard branches must develop a remedial plan certified by the direct management agency and report to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The application of measures to handle substandard training facilities and substandard branches shall comply with the provisions of relevant laws.

The principal and director of the training institution are responsible for the completeness, accuracy and consistency of information, statistics, completion deadline and quality of the standard implementation assessment report.

The Ministry of Education and Training is asking for comments on this draft circular until July 23, 2023.

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