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The Ministry of Education and Training is drafting a Circular regulating education quality assurance and recognition of national standards for preschool educational establishments, general education establishments and continuing education establishments. Download Develop a unified framework of educational quality assurance requirements applicable to many types of educational institutions Draft Circular to specify the provisions in Article 110 of the Law on Education; Ensuring the quality of education in educational institutions is carried out through self-assessment of educational institutions (regulated as a regular activity to serve school administration and to implement quality improvement); associated with recognition of national standards by competent authorities; does not establish an education quality accreditation mechanism as before. Some new points of the draft Circular: First, build a unified framework of educational quality assurance requirements applicable to many types of educational establishments, including preschool education establishments, general education establishments, continuing education centers and vocational education centers - continuing education; This framework is designed on the basis of standardizing current regulations, contributing to ensuring consistency in management, while creating conditions for educational institutions to proactively self-assess and improve quality in accordance with actual conditions; At the same time, it stipulates specific instructions on meeting the requirements of each criterion according to the characteristics of each type of educational institution, ensuring both consistency in principles and flexibility in application. Second, the system of standards and criteria of the Ministry of Standards on ensuring educational quality is reviewed and redesigned in an integrated direction, including 06 standards and 25 criteria, fully reflecting factors from ensuring conditions, implementation process to educational results. education; This adjustment is not intended to reduce quality requirements but to increase alignment, clarity and measurement ability, thereby directly supporting the schools internal quality management activities. Third, educational quality assurance activities in educational institutions are carried out according to a continuous improvement cycle, including self-assessment, building and implementing improvement plans, monitoring, reviewing and adjusting; This is a regular management activity of the school, associated with the continuous operation process, not a temporary activity to serve external assessment. Fourth, the criteria are described according to response levels to support educational institutions in determining the appropriate level of development and improvement orientation; These levels are not the basis for ranking or classifying educational institutions, but are only intended to reflect the level of perfection in the quality assurance process of each school over time. Fifth, recognition of national standards is carried out on the basis of synthesizing many grounds, in which the self-assessment results of the educational institution are the most important basis but not the only basis; Recognition must also be compared with the standards and conditions prescribed by the State for schools meeting national standards, including requirements on facilities, staff, scale and educational environment; Achieving a high level of quality assurance is a favorable condition but does not replace fully meeting the conditions to be recognized as meeting national standards. Sixth, innovating the approach to evidence in the direction of using data, available management records and electronic data, limiting the construction of separate formal records, thereby contributing to reducing administrative pressure on educational institutions and improving the transparency and substance of quality information. Seventh, clarifying responsibilities responsibilities of subjects in the education quality assurance system; Accordingly, educational institutions are responsible for organizing self-assessment and implementing quality improvement; The Department of Education and Training provides guidance, inspection and appraisal; State management agencies promulgate policies and organize supervision; Clear delineation of responsibilities contributes to ensuring uniformity and effectiveness in implementation. The Draft Circular shows the orientation to move from a phased assessment approach to continuous quality management in schools, linking educational quality with accountability and ensuring investment conditions; At the same time, increase the use of data in quality management, contributing to promoting digital transformation in education and improving the quality of education in a real and sustainable way. The Ministry of Education and Training is soliciting comments on this draft on the Ministrys e-portal./. 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