The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) still has not released the national examination and enrolment regulations for 2015. Meanwhile, many universities have released their own enrolment plans.

Many schools have made public their enrolment plans with information about requirements on students’ learning records and the number of students for every major.

Nguyen Trai University has announced that the first enrolment campaign will take place from January 1, 2015 to February 15. Students are required to show their learning records in the 10th, 11th grades and the first semester of the 12th grade.

Meanwhile, Thanh Do University in Hanoi began taking registrations for study on January 15 and planned to finish on February 10. It is expected that 1,800 students would begin their study in March.

Dong Do University in Hanoi said on its official website that it would receive students on January 1-31, while Thanh Dong University in Hai Duong would take students on January 2 – March 15 and Phan Thiet University in Binh Thuan province on January 16 – February 5.

According to MOET, over 60 universities (4, 5, 6 year training) and junior colleges (3-year training) have had their enrolment plans approved. Of these, 10 schools have been allowed to enroll students in early 2015, though high school students will only finish the academic year in June 2015.

Under the University Education Law, training establishments determine their enrolment mechanisms themselves, which must go in accordance with national enrolment regulations set up by MOET.

However, since MOET has not released the new regulations, schools said they plan to enroll students in 2015 with principles applied in previous years.

What will happen if the schools’ enrolment plans do not fit national regulations to be released by MOET?  

If the schools have to amend their plans in accordance with the national regulations, it will be students who will suffer, because they do not have much time to make a choice.

Ngo Xuan Ha, President of the Thanh Do University, said schools will meet big difficulties if they have to amend their enrolment plans because of MOET’s tardiness, because it will take a lot of time to build plans.

However, an analyst noted that neither of the two scenarios expected to take place in the future would be beneficial. If MOET sets up a different regulation, it will make students suffer because of changing regulations. However, if it keeps national regulations unchanged, there will be no “renovation” at all.

A source from MOET said the new national enrolment regulations will not come out until early February 2015.

Thanh Mai