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The Ministry of Education and Training (GDDT) is collecting peoples opinions on the draft Circular promulgating the Regulations on admission and postgraduate training. Download Linking postgraduate training with scientific research Draft Circular to complete a unified legal framework for enrollment and organization of training at masters and doctoral levels, built on the basis of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Education 2025; Law on Higher Education (amended) in 2025. According to the draft, the Circular will replace Circular No. 23/2021/TT-BGDDT promulgating Regulations on admission and training for masters degrees and Circular No. 18/2021/TT-BGDDT promulgating Regulations on admission and training for doctoral degrees. Increasing autonomy, improving accountability One of the notable points of the draft is the strong shift from process management. training program to managing training quality, output standards and accountability of training institutions. The draft is built in the direction of stipulating minimum requirements, principles and standards so that training institutions can proactively develop specific regulations suitable to practical conditions and requirements of each training program. Accordingly, training institutions can proactively decide on the form and method of organizing training, full-course learning plan and standard training time of each program; At the same time, it must ensure openness, transparency, objectivity and fairness in admission and training organization. The draft also strengthens the role and responsibility of training institutions and specialized units in academic management, learning and research processes of students and graduate students. Training institutions are allowed to apply information technology in admission, registration, management and storage of learner records when ensuring reliability, authenticity and fairness in evaluating participants. recruitment. Increase interoperability and flexibility in training. The draft adds many regulations to increase interoperability between training levels in higher education. The draft stipulates that learning results and higher education certificates used to recognize and convert credits are valid for a period of 60 months from the date of completion of the course or the time of issuance of the certificate. Learners must complete the training program in a minimum time equal to two-thirds and maximum not exceeding 2.5 times the standard training time of the program. In case the maximum training period has not been completed but the program has not been completed, the learner must review the entry conditions according to the regulations of the training facility and can only reserve the modules and certificates that are still valid for recognition. For integrated training programs, learners who have accumulated a sufficient number of credits of any level will be considered for recognition and awarded a degree at the corresponding level according to the regulations of the training program. Associate postgraduate training with scientific research Draft proposed program regulations Doctoral level training is only organized in the form of formal training to enhance the academic and research environment and ensure the quality of graduate student training. The draft continues to strictly regulate academic capacity, scientific research capacity and responsibilities of lecturers and instructors; At the same time, adding regulations on full-time instructors and foreign instructors. The draft also specifies the requirements for scientific publication for graduate students in a more transparent and clear direction; At the same time, adding regulations on independent review of doctoral dissertations. A notable new point is that for the first time, the draft provides a mechanism to exempt independent review for doctoral students with excellent research results meeting high international standards, with the requirement to have at least 03 WoS/Scopus articles directly related to the dissertation, including at least 2 articles in group Q1. In addition, the draft adds regulations on organizing online dissertation defense in case of need. necessary when meeting the requirements of quality, objectivity, openness and transparency. 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