When will enrollment stabilize?

While these confusions have not had time to be adjusted, many people working in university admissions predict that there will be changes in the following years, as they have always been. And in the recent university education conference, there are two important contents that the Ministry of Education and Training is considering to include in the regulations for the 2026 admissions period: whether to abandon or continue to use the admission method based on academic records and whether to control the wishes of candidates registering for admission?

In just the past 10 years, university admissions and high school final exams have undergone many changes.

In 2015, we had the national high school exam held with two main purposes: to get the results to consider recognizing high school graduation and to serve as a basis for university and college admission. This year, for university admission, candidates were allowed to register 4 wishes for the same school and had the right to change their wishes at the last minute. In 2016, the adjustment allowed candidates to register 4 wishes but at 2 different schools. In 2017, candidates were allowed to register an unlimited number of wishes...

By 2020, when the 2019 Education Law took effect, the national high school exam became the high school graduation exam with changes related to exam questions, exam organization, graduation assessment... All of which affected university admissions at different levels from technical adjustments to policy innovation..., and happened almost every year. The emergence of separate exams, capacity assessments, admission methods other than high school graduation exam scores, such as transcript scores... have greatly changed the admissions picture.

In particular, in 2025, the high school graduation exam will have adjustments to adapt to the first batch of students taking the graduation exam of the 2018 General Education Program. So we have a university entrance exam with many changes with new, difficult to understand, and difficult to access things for both candidates and schools. Starting from very specialized concepts such as "percentile", "score conversion" to a series of confusing standard score conversion formulas that many people joke that you need an engineering degree to understand.

This year's changes in university admissions were initially aimed at fairness, but due to the complexity and confusion, they have led to incidents in admissions as well as caused unnecessary confusion and anxiety for candidates and parents.

If you have the opportunity to learn about university admissions in other countries, many people will agree that their regulations, procedures, and conditions are mostly simple, easy to understand, and stable. This not only helps schools have a long-term, stable development strategy, but also helps candidates set up a suitable study roadmap and plan.

Admission is just one of many steps in the training process. When schools are given autonomy, they should also be allowed to decide how to admit students, as long as they comply with regulations and take responsibility for themselves. A shirt that only has one size does not fit everyone. Likewise, one standard cannot be applied to all types of schools. The important thing is that the Ministry

Education and Training is managed by the state and has sanctions so that even if schools want to violate, they cannot do so.

Change is for the better but there needs to be a long-term vision, at least 5-10 years, not every year there should be adjustments causing insecurity and instability in an enrollment period that creates a high-quality labor source for society.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/bao-gio-on-dinh-tuyen-sinh-185250919223910118.htm