Being an important object in the national digital transformation process until 2025 under Decision No.749/QD-TTG, tertiary education is taking full advantage of this opportunity to upgrade its administration performance, training quality, and scientific research activities in order to better serve all demands in the socio-economic growth of the country.
The Prime Minister has just issued Decision No.436 about an implementation plan for developing a National Educational Level Framework in Vietnam for tertiary education in the period from 2020 – 2025.
Many current high-quality programs in universities nationwide are loosely controlled, creating negative impressions among the public. It is high time the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) introduced strictly regulations and standards so that these programs can live up to their name.
The policy to organize high-quality programs in universities nationwide was introduced in 2006 to increase competitiveness among domestic educational institutes. However, after a few years, these programs begin to display their weaknesses, making the public concern that money, not training quality, is the ultimate goal of these courses.
In the digital era when advances in science and technologies are significantly affecting trading and manufacturing, changes in the job structure and working methods have urged renovations in vocational training so that it is able to answer the labor market’s demands in the near future.
The Revised Law on Tertiary Education (aka Law No.34), came into effect on July 1, 2019. However, until now, there is no guiding decree to materialize the law. Being confused by many vague terms in the law, several universities are now in a serious dilemma.
