The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has just held a discussion on the draft Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulations on university and college admissions in the field of Preschool Education. Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son chaired the discussion.
The draft is being widely consulted by the Ministry of Education and Training. The adjustments and additions in the draft are intended to overcome shortcomings in the enrollment process in recent times and ensure fairness for all candidates.
"The Ministry of Education and Training is always open-minded"
In his opening speech, Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son said that the seminar was organized so that teachers - those who directly manage, train, and have many years of experience in enrollment work - can better understand the proposed revised contents and discuss, agree, and propose optimal contents to better perform their existing tasks.
The Deputy Minister shared that the Ministry of Education and Training is always open-minded and listens for the betterment of the whole system. Over the years, every time a circular is revised, big or small, it has sought broad opinions from experts, teachers who directly train, and experienced managers to discuss and come up with the best solutions.
The Deputy Minister said that the enrollment work still needs to change and limit shortcomings because it has a direct and major impact on schools and candidates, especially in the current context of autonomy.
Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son delivered the opening speech at the seminar.
One of the amendments and supplements in the draft Regulation is that the early admission quota is determined by the training institution but does not exceed 20% of the quota for each training major or group of majors. The Deputy Minister said that the recognition and adjustment of early admission is very necessary to ensure fairness for all candidates.
Furthermore, the assessment scores and admission scores of the methods and subject combinations used for admission must be converted to a common, unified scale for each training program, industry, and group of industries. Emphasizing that this is only the measuring stick, the Deputy Minister said that it is necessary to convert to this common measuring stick. Of course, converting is not easy, but it still needs to be discussed.
Affirming that university and college admissions have a great impact on the learning process in general education, the Deputy Minister said that having stricter regulations that if using transcripts for admission, it is necessary to have the learning results of the entire 12th grade is also aimed at ensuring fairness for candidates. If only considering 5 semesters at high school level and ignoring the second semester of 12th grade, many students will be subjective and not focus on studying well in all subjects. This will be very difficult for them when entering university later.
“In addition, we need to measure the candidates’ capacity and learning ability to be appropriate and meet the requirements of each industry/training program. We need to determine the viewpoint of how to simplify the enrollment process, making it most convenient for schools but not violating the general principles of education, which are fairness, equality, and quality,” the Deputy Minister requested.
According to the Deputy Minister, this draft is not final but has new points to overcome some shortcomings. Spending too much time and resources on early admission will have a negative impact on general education. Now, even though there are difficulties, we still have to do it, take the difficulties upon ourselves, and find ways to make it most convenient for schools and candidates.
Early admission should be clearly defined.
Ms. Vuong Huong Giang, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, said that the Department agrees with the regulations on early admission quotas of universities and the regulations on early admission benchmark scores (after equivalent conversion) not being lower than the benchmark scores of the general planned admission round.
Ms. Huong Giang said that the regulation of early admission quotas and admission standard scores ensures fairness among candidates in the admission rounds and reduces the above-mentioned problems.
The Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training also agreed with the regulation that the examination of transcripts must use the results of the entire 12th grade of the candidates, because this ensures the assessment of the candidates' knowledge throughout high school and avoids the phenomenon of lopsided learning, or skipping some subjects in the second semester of 12th grade, because they only study subjects for the graduation exam.
Ms. Vuong Huong Giang, Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training
Dr. Le Truong Tung, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT University, said that the issue that needs to be discussed now is to review the current admission system and consider amendments to make it feasible and appropriate. Accordingly, for early admission, schools need to clearly stipulate that early admission announcements can only be made after the high school graduation exam to ensure that the learning process is not disrupted and that the high school exam results are not affected.
Also on the issue of early admission, according to Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Dao Tung, Director of the Academy of Finance, when all schools conduct early admission, it will make high schools work hard, the volume of confirmation is high, students do not care about the second semester of grade 12. Some schools only consider the learning results of students in grades 10, 11 and the first semester of grade 12, so there are stories of students not focusing on studying after Tet in the second semester.
"Therefore, we support the new point in the draft regulation that if admission is based on high school transcripts, there must be 6 semesters, so that candidates can focus on studying seriously until the end of the school year. At the same time, there needs to be a monitoring mechanism for units to strictly implement the regulations; strengthen sanctions on inspection and post-inspection work so that admission work becomes systematic and effective," Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Dao Tung shared.
The Director of the Academy of Finance suggested that we should boldly eliminate the early admission form, because the 20% for early admission does not have much meaning. At the same time, we should push the first round of admission earlier so that schools can continue to enroll students with real wishes in the second round.
Associate Professor, Dr. Le Thanh Bac, Vice President of Danang University, said that the changes of the Ministry of Education and Training to better suit the new situation are necessary and need to be done immediately, because the quality of training is valuable, this is a demonstration of the responsibility of the schools to society.
At the conference, delegates also recommended that schools that organize competency assessment exams should soon put the exam scores on the common system to facilitate all schools in the admission process; the amendment of regulations also needs to look at technical and infrastructure factors to avoid difficulties for the system.
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