Tuition mechanism will be established in conjunction with training quality.

According to Mr. Nguyen Tien Thao, Director of the Department of Higher Education (GDĐH) - Ministry of Education and Training, the drafting committee plans to submit to the Government the content of 6 policy groups as a basis for amending the law, including: improving the effectiveness of state management, creating an advanced university governance system; modernizing training programs and methods, applying advanced technology and promoting lifelong learning; positioning higher education institutions as centers for research and innovation associated with training high-quality human resources; increasing resource mobilization and improving the efficiency of investment in modernizing higher education; developing a team of excellent lecturers and scientists and a creative and honest academic environment; changing the approach to quality management in quality assurance activities.

TUITION FEES ARE CALCULATED CORRECTLY AND FULLLY WITHIN THE SPECIFIED FRAMEWORK

The issue of tuition fees (HP) was included in group 4 (enhancing resource mobilization and improving the efficiency of investment in modernizing higher education) by the drafting committee of the revised law. Mr. Nguyen Tien Thao said: "The financial policy for higher education will be comprehensively reformed towards efficiency, transparency and ensuring fairness in access. The law is expected to establish a mechanism for HP linked to training quality, while expanding the policy to support learners through preferential credit, regardless of public or private type. In addition to the state budget, higher education institutions, both public and private, will be facilitated to diversify their revenue sources through public-private partnerships (PPP), research activities, service provision and socialized funding. In particular, the public budget allocation mechanism will shift strongly from regular allocation to investment based on output results, linked to objective assessment criteria and strict monitoring mechanisms, in order to promote healthy competition and improve the efficiency of resource use throughout the system".

It is expected that the revised Law on Higher Education will establish a tuition fee mechanism linked to training quality, and expand support policies for learners through preferential credit, regardless of public or private schools.

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From the above perspective, the drafters of the revised law of the Ministry of Education and Training plan to include in the law the unified principles on the mechanism of scholarships, preferential credit and assign the Government and the Prime Minister to specify the details. The specific plan is as follows: universities calculate correctly and fully the scholarships to ensure quality according to the framework prescribed by the Government, the State implements the scholarship exemption and reduction regime for policy subjects; ensure that all learners in difficult circumstances have access to preferential credit to cover their study costs, no one loses the opportunity due to financial factors; the State grants scholarships with counterpart from higher education institutions to attract learners, especially good ones, to study in fields and training levels that need to be prioritized in the whole country or in each region, not linked to specific human resource usage addresses.

Along with that is the policy on scholarships and HP. The State gives priority to exempting HP and granting scholarships to students in teacher training majors and key majors to carry out strategic tasks of socio-economic development.

GLOBALIZATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE LABOR MARKET

Policy group 2, modernizing training programs and methods, applying advanced technology and promoting lifelong learning, also proposed many notable contents. The viewpoint of the Ministry of Education and Training is to innovate training programs, improve training quality, first of all, aiming at the goal of globalization in higher education and the labor market.

Higher education activities are flexibly organized in the direction of credit accumulation, meeting the diverse learning needs and lifelong learning of learners. The law will stipulate the training forms including formal and continuing. In which, the formal form is full-time concentrated training at registered locations, according to a standard study plan to complete the training program. The regular form is training according to time and flexible study plans, suitable to the conditions, needs and capacity of learners to complete the training program.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son speaks at the seminar

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Universities develop training programs that are consistent with the Vietnamese National Qualifications Framework and meet the training program standards of the industry, group of industries or fields and corresponding levels. Universities also have the autonomy to determine enrollment targets, methods and organize enrollment in accordance with training capacity on the basis of meeting higher education institution standards, training program standards and human resource needs.

The Ministry of Education and Training still issues admission regulations, which stipulate admission methods; implement admission quotas, thresholds to ensure admission quality for teacher training programs, law and health sciences; and require ensuring objectivity, transparency, fairness and quality in admission organization.

In particular, the law will regulate the recognition and transfer of learning outcomes when learners meet the output standards of a number of corresponding subjects in the training program. The learners' accumulated learning outcomes will be considered for recognition and transfer between levels, forms and training methods, creating conditions for connectivity and lifelong learning.

According to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son, the construction of the revised law is based on the following principles: fully institutionalizing the Party and State's policies on university education development; being consistent with the Constitution, inheriting and overcoming legal problems in practice; enhancing autonomy associated with accountability; innovating governance, improving quality, serving the community; encouraging socialization, international integration, digital transformation; approaching international trends, developing open education, lifelong learning.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/se-thiet-lap-co-che-hoc-phi-gan-voi-chat-luong-dao-tao-185250514224257505.htm