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The Minister of Education and Training (GDDT) has just issued Circular No. 10/2026/TT-BGDDT on Regulations on diplomas and certificates of the national education system, effective from April 15, 2026. Download Abolish the regulation that the Ministry of Education and Training prints blank diplomas and certificates. The regulation on diplomas and certificates (VBCC) of the national education system has 23 articles, with shorter and more comprehensive provisions, but clearly defines the person, job, responsibilities and many new notable points. Replaces all previous regulations on civil documents. The regulation stipulates in detail new contents on the management of public documents mentioned in the Law on Education, amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law. Education, Law on Higher Education (amended) and Law on Vocational Education (amended). Accordingly, the new contents include: Replace the issuance of a secondary school diploma with confirmation of completion of the secondary school program in the school transcript; assigned the principal to issue high school diplomas; Supplementing a vocational high school diploma; Supplementing forms of digital diplomas and digital certificates; At the same time, expand the scope of regulation to include vocational education standards. The Circular also replaces all previous regulations on public documents that were issued scattered in many documents of the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, creating favorable conditions for educational institutions, managers and learners in research and implementation. Supplementing regulations on digital public documents, shortening the time limit for granting high school diplomas The regulations also institutionalize the policy of comprehensive digital transformation in education and training, especially in the management of public documents. Specifically, the Regulations supplement the concept of digital public documents; regulate issuance, storage, and handling; issue copies, edit, revoke, and cancel digital documents; regulations on building, updating, and exploiting the VBCC database and list of information fields required to be updated. The Ministry of Education and Training builds a common national public document database to serve the issuance of digital public documents, store issued data and publicize information about public official documents. Updating and disclosing information also applies to documents issued before the Circular takes effect. Information extracted from the database has the same legal value as information in the original ledger; Information searched from the database or on the VNeID application is used instead of copies from the original book and has VBCC verification value. The regulations also require full updates of data when issuing, re-issuing, editing, revoking, and canceling documents, ensuring the principle of correct, sufficient, clean, living, unified, shared, and common. The entire Regulation is built in the direction of promoting the application of technology and deploying digital documents in synchronization with paper documents. The time limit for issuing high school diplomas (paper) is shortened from 75 days to 30 days; The time limit for issuing VBCC number is 05 days from the date of the decision to recognize graduation. Related procedures are regulated in the direction of reducing paperwork, increasing data exploitation and sharing from relevant databases; Prioritize resolution in the electronic environment; Do not require people to re-provide information that is already available on state agency data systems. Abolish the regulation that the Ministry of Education and Training prints draft documents. The regulation institutionalizes the policy in Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW of the Politburo on strengthening the autonomy and self-responsibility of educational institutions associated with effective inspection and supervision. Specifically, the Regulations clearly define the authority and responsibilities of each relevant organization and individual. In particular, the Ministry of Education and Training focuses on promulgating regulations and implementing state management according to law, without acting on behalf of localities and establishments. Remove the regulation that the Ministry of Education and Training prints drafts of public documents, decentralize it to the Department of Education and Training or a competent authority to issue public documents (for paper documents). There are no regulations on university diploma, vocational education and certificate templates (only the main content written on diplomas and certificates are regulated), except for high school diploma templates to ensure national uniformity. At the same time, there are no regulations on original book templates, original book appendices, copy issuance books... but only regulate the main content, in order to increase the autonomy of the agency competent to issue CCBCs. Supplement regulations on assigning deputy levels to sign documents. Regulations supplement and adjust regulations on the basis of synthesizing difficulties and inadequacies in practice, ensuring reasonableness, feasibility and prioritizing the interests of learners. Supplementing regulations on assigning deputy officials to sign VBCC documents; assign the right to sign copies of documents to reduce the burden on the leader; regulate special cases when issuing copies from the original book, re-issuing, editing content, revoking, and canceling public documents in situations such as no longer having the original book, no longer having the authority, or when the competent authority merges, splits, or dissolves. For outstanding issues related to secondary school diplomas, assign the Department of Education and Training to handle; The Commune-level Peoples Committee is responsible for handing over the original diploma book and related documents to the Department of
