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Five education quality accreditation centers in Vietnam have accredited 55 percent of training establishment since 2016, the date of their establishment. However, experts see problems in the way accreditation is implemented.
The national standards for tertiary training quality set by the Ministry of Education and Training includes minimum requirements, but schools have actually committed to higher quality standards for their training programs.
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam universities’ training quality and scientific research capacity both are still very weak.
VietNamNet Bridge - Educators agree that Vietnam’s universities need to be accredited, but they have not reached a consensus on how it should be done.
Dr Tran Xuan Nhi, former Deputy Minister of Education and Training, commented that as three out of four accreditation centers belong to universities, the accreditation results may be unreliable.
VietNamNet Bridge - The government four years ago set a goal to have at least one Vietnamese university listed among the world’s top 200 by 2020.
VietNamNet Bridge - The most reputable economics schools ranked below average on a list of 49 schools surveyed by a group of six specialists from Vietnamese and foreign institutions.
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese universities in the past have not been listed in prestigious international rankings, and this year is no exception.
VietNamNet Bridge - Accreditation organizations say that accrediting 35 percent of universities and 10 percent of junior colleges by the end of 2017 is a huge task.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided that 35 percent of total universities and 10 percent of pedagogical junior colleges in Vietnam must be accredited by the end of 2017.
VietNamNet Bridge - The Examinations and Education Quality Assurance Department has announced the draft regulation on higher-education establishment accreditation, under which universities would be ranked based on 111 criteria.
VietNamNet Bridge - The low quality of university education is blamed on curricula which focuses on theoretical knowledge and does not provide enough practicum hours.
VietNamNet Bridge - More than 470 universities in Vietnam will be ranked once every two years under a plan outlined in a new government decree which takes effect on October 25.