Colleges enrolling with university system from 2025

College enrolls at the same time as university

This information was given at the Conference on deploying vocationaleducation and continuing education enrollment in 2025 in Hanoi.

Accordingly, colleges will continue to enroll students according to current regulations, stipulated in Circular 05 of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (formerly known as Circular 05). However, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) allows schools to participate in the university enrollment support system on a voluntary basis.

Implementing college admissions on the national common admission system at the same time as university admissions not only creates convenience for candidates and schools, but also improves the quality, safety and efficiency of admissions.

Schools registering to participate in the common admission system must commit to complying with a coordination regulation to ensure unity, synchronization and connectivity.

Similar to the university block, each college will be given an account to access the system, standardize the data declared on the system, organize the processing of wishes, and announce the admission results according to the data that has been filtered from the system.

Students of Hanoi College of Technology (Photo: School Fanpage).

According to regulations, by June 30 at the latest, colleges must complete updating candidate information on the common system.

Before July 15, schools with direct admission must complete entering information about directly admitted candidates into the system.

At 5:00 p.m. on August 22, the system completed the final virtual filtering and returned the results to the school to announce the admission results.

Mr. Pham Vu Quoc Binh - Deputy Director of the Department of Vocational Education and Continuing Education - commented that college admissions from 2025 will have many changes, related to new policies and guidelines.

Many regulations are no longer suitable for vocational training.

Ms. Phan Thi Le Thu, Vice Principal of Far East College, expressed: Being able to participate in the common admission system of the Ministry of Education and Training has been the expectation of colleges for many years.

This significantly removes the obstacles for schools in enrollment. However, difficulties in enrollment and training still need to be thoroughly resolved in the context of the "skew" in vocational education and education-training policies after the merger.

Mr. Pham Xuan Khanh - Principal of Hanoi College of Technology - said that the 9+ training system (a parallel training model between vocational training and general education for junior high school graduates and students in the middle of high school) is the "bread and butter" of vocational schools.

However, according to current regulations, students must study a long period of general education, leaving very little time for vocational training. To ensure the time for both, students are under a lot of pressure. As a result, many students drop out of vocational training, and the school's vocational training goals cannot be achieved.

Mr. Khanh also mentioned the need for new regulations that are more suitable for training in a digital environment. He gave an example, in Germany, an online class allows training of 1,000 people at the same time.

However, vocational training in the digital environment in Vietnam still applies regulations on the maximum number of students per class, limiting the scale and effectiveness of training.

Another difficult problem raised by the Vice Principal of Far East College is the situation where students studying in the 9+ system are not compensated by the locality for tuition fees according to regulations.

There are courses that students complete for 3 years, graduate from school and then receive tuition compensation. This leads to parents misunderstanding the school, thinking that the school's admissions advice is inaccurate.

During the training process, vocational schools encountered difficulties in the business part. This is the training content right at the enterprise, directly instructed by experts, engineers, and technical staff.

However, according to current regulations, if a person doing training work at a business does not have a sufficient certificate of pedagogy, that course will not be recognized.

Ms. Phan Thi Le Thu proposed that the Ministry of Education and Training soon issue specific instructions, creating a flexible legal corridor to recognize learning outcomes of courses taught by businesses.

The Ministry can consider a mechanism to exempt or replace the requirements on degree records for business experts when participating in teaching in the form of co-teaching, practical guidance, and internship.

Ms. Thu also recommended the need to unify a single common legal framework for the entire Vietnamese education system, called the national qualifications framework, to serve as a unified foundation for all levels of qualifications, including university and vocational education, helping to ensure connectivity and flexible conversion between training levels.

From the perspective of state management, Mr. Le Hoai Nam - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City - proposed that there should be a preferential mechanism on land use for non-public vocational education. Currently, both universities and general education have this policy, but vocational training does not have it yet.

Mr. Nam said that vocational schools do not receive preferential land funds, so their facilities are limited, becoming a barrier when reaching parents and students.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/truong-cao-dang-tuyen-sinh-cung-he-thong-dai-hoc-tu-nam-2025-20250516141220982.htm