To:

- Universities, institutes;
- Junior colleges, colleges

Upon implementing the Directive No. 7823/CT-BGDDT of the Minister of Education and Training dated October 27, 2009 on the key higher education mission in the academic year 2009-2010 and the Decision No. 179/QD-BGDDT of the Minister of Education and Training dated January 11, 2010 on approval of the action program for implementation of the Resolution No. 05-NQ/BCSD of the Communist Party Staff Committee dated January 6, 2010 on higher education management reforms for the period 2010-2012, colleges and universities need to construct and announce the graduation standards for training disciplines of these colleges and universities. This is considered the key mission in this academic year, one of the measures that contributes to improving the training quality of each training institution and the entire training area, and the commitment of higher education institutions on the training quality that meets social demands, or on the student’s competence after graduation.   

In order to ensure consistency of contents, methods for constructing and announcing the graduation standards for training disciplines, the Ministry of Education and Training shall guide higher education institutions through construction and announcement of the graduation standards for university and college-level training disciplines as follows:

1. Definition of the graduation standard for a training discipline

The graduation standards refer to regulations on professional knowledge contents; practical skills, capability of absorbing technologies and solving problems; work duties that students may undertake after graduation and other particular requirements relevant to each training level and discipline.

2. Objectives of construction and announcement of graduation standards

a) Inform society of training competence and conditions for assurance of the training quality of each higher education institution to serve the following purposes: keep students, parents and recruiters informed of this to perform their supervisory functions; fulfill higher education institution’s commitments to society on the training quality in order for administrators, lecturers and students to make every effort to improve their teaching and learning ability; reform training administration, teaching method, examination or assessment method, and learning method; clearly define obligations and enhance responsibilities of staff of administrators or lecturers in teaching, teaching assistance and managerial activities in order to help students improve their learning and self-study practice with a view to satisfying graduation standards.   

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c) Provide opportunities for increasing cooperation and connection between higher education institutions and enterprises in training and using workforce to meet social demands and requirements of recruiters.

3. Elements of graduation standards

Depending on objectives and professional requirements of each training discipline, higher education institutions shall construct and announce the graduation standards on the basis of studying and consulting overseas experience; training reality and particular conditions of specific higher educational institutions in order to ensure that graduation standards are of scientific, practical and can be implemented in reality.   Graduation standards for training disciplines at each level are composed of the following elements:

a) Training discipline name: in Vietnamese or English;

b) Training level: associate or bachelor degree;

c) Knowledge requirements: professional intellect, career competency, etc.

d) Skill requirements:

- Hard skills: professional, professional practical, situational, problem solving skills, etc.  

- Soft skills: communication, teamwork, language and computer skills, etc.

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- Moral standards, career consciousness and citizen responsibilities;

- Professional responsibilities, ethics, behaviors and attitudes;

- Knowledge updating ability and working creativity.

e) Work position of graduated students;

g) Opportunities for further learning and knowledge improvement;

h) International programs, materials or standards that the higher education institution consults.

4. Processes for construction and announcement of graduation standards

Step 1. The rector of a higher education institution establishes the Steering Committee for construction and announcement of graduation standards of his institution. The Committee is composed of the rector, deputy rector in charge of training affairs, head of the finance planning division, head of the training division, head of the science division, heads of faculties, heads of subject groups, experts of subject groups or representatives of faculties in respect of several interdisciplinary training areas, representatives of recruiters (employers).

(As for universities, construction and announcement of graduation standards for training disciplines shall be conducted by member institutions).

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Step 3. Faculties conduct construction of draft graduation standards, hold survey polls to collect opinions from administrators, scientists, lecturers, recruiters and alumni, etc., and complete graduation standards for specific training disciplines.

Step 4, Faculties send draft graduation standards to collect feedbacks from recruiters, enterprises and alumni, etc.

Step 5. The Science and Training Council of a faculty supplements and completes draft graduation standards for training disciplines on the basis of collecting and analyzing feedbacks from enterprises, recruiters and alumni, etc., and reports to the Science and Training Council of the higher education institution.

Step 6. The Science and Training Council of a higher education institution holds workshops and survey polls on draft graduation standards of all of training disciplines.

Step 7. Draft graduation standards for specific training disciplines are posted on the websites of institutions in order for administrators, scientists, lecturers, students, recruiters, alumni, institutions/faculties that have the same area of study, etc. inside or outside of these institutions to give their opinions.

Step 9. All contributing opinions are processed, and official graduation standards for training disciplines are completed and signed to be launched by the rector on the website of each institution, and printed in the employee handbooks and handouts; made known to society by means of media, and submitted in writing to the Ministry of Education and Training for reporting purposes (through the Higher Education Department, Department of Examination and Education Quality Assessment).  

Step 9. Graduation standards must be re-checked, revised and amended on a periodic basis and meet increasing demands of society and recruiters in a timely manner.

Every year, higher education institutions re-check and modify graduation standards which meet practical demands and are consistent with technological and scientific development requirements as well as meet social demands and requirements of recruiters over periods of time.

5. Conditions for assurance of graduation standards

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Construction and announcement of graduation standards are considered compulsory, commitments of higher education institutions on the training quality to enable social oversight. Therefore, based on instructions provided by the Ministry of Education and Training, universities, institutes, colleges or junior colleges must take action to construct and announce graduation standards for their specific training disciplines and levels immediately in the second semester of the academic year 2009 - 2010.

PP. THE MINISTER
THE DEPUTY MINISTER




Pham Vu Luan

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