Integrating AI into higher education quality assessment

At the workshop "Trends in education quality assessment in the period 2026-2030 with the help of artificial intelligence" held on October 16, education experts said that there is a need for a roadmap to integrate artificial intelligence into university education quality assessment.

Prof. Dr. Huynh Van Chuong - Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training shared at the workshop. Photo: DN

Prof. Dr. Bang Tien Long - former Deputy Minister of Education and Training (MOET) - said that integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into higher education quality assessment is an inevitable factor of digital transformation. According to him, the application of AI in assessment brings many benefits such as: Data automation (processing large volumes of reports, detecting abnormalities); continuous monitoring (real-time monitoring, early warning); transparency (objective assessment, combining blockchain to prevent counterfeiting). Thus, the assessment model can be converted from periodic to continuous. But that comes with difficulties, security risks, algorithmic bias and high operational skill requirements.

From there, Prof. Dr. Bang Tien Long said that to integrate AI into the quality assessment system, Vietnam needs a comprehensive strategic roadmap, built on the foundational pillars: Legal and ethical corridor; national digital infrastructure and data; high-quality human resources. Along with that, it is necessary to update the current quality assessment standards to reflect the impact of AI, add new criteria for Vietnam and propose to AUN-QA.

The integration of AI is not intended to replace the AUN-QA standards set, which have been successfully applied by many Vietnamese universities and are internationally recognized, but to enrich and improve the effectiveness of this set of standards.

Prof. Dr. Huynh Van Chuong, Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training, said that the new regulations on quality assurance and accreditation of higher education have eliminated cumbersome requirements, focusing on conditions such as output standards, staff, internal quality assurance, and requirements to demonstrate practical impact, showing that accreditation is a real improvement process. At the same time, referencing AUN-QA standards and foreign accreditation organizations; the database must be unified; enhancing the autonomy of higher education institutions in quality assurance and accreditation activities to link with academic records, rankings, recognition of degrees, credits, international cooperation, etc.

In the period 2026-2030, Prof. Dr. Huynh Van Chuong emphasized restructuring the organization towards professionalism; each organization needs to have a medium-term and long-term strategy to develop organizational capacity, technology and human resources. Along with that, establish an internal quality management system, publicize processes, results and recommendations for improvement; gradually approach international standards, join the network and sign an agreement to exchange inspectors.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/giao-duc/tich-hop-ai-vao-kiem-dinh-chat-luong-giao-duc-dai-hoc-20251016174823466.htm