Specialist II can be recognized as equivalent to a doctorate.
People with a residency degree or a level I specialist degree will be considered lecturers with a master's degree, according to the draft of the new circular.
The Ministry of Education and Training has just announced a draft to amend and supplement a number of articles of Circular No. 06/2018 promulgating regulations on determining enrollment quotas for intermediate and college levels of teacher training majors; university, master's and doctoral levels.
In which, full-time and guest lecturers converted in determining enrollment targets are converted according to the following coefficient:
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The new point of the draft circular is the regulation that for the health sector, lecturers with a level 2 specialist degree in the majors they are training in are considered lecturers with a doctoral degree.
Lecturers with a residency degree, a level I specialist degree in the majors they are training in are considered lecturers with a master's degree.
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General practitioner graduation ceremony. Photo:Manh Tung |
For the arts sector, the draft circular maintains the regulation that lecturers who are people's artists with a university degree in the same field as the training major are counted as lecturers with a doctoral degree; excellent artists with a university degree in the same field as the training major are counted as lecturers with a master's degree.
Also according to the above draft, the number of full-time university students per converted lecturer by major is determined not to exceed the following norms:
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The draft circular also amends and supplements a number of regulations on determining regular university enrollment targets.
The decentralization of qualifications in the health sector has always been controversial. Previously, at the National Assembly session at the end of 2018, when discussing the revised Law on Higher Education, delegate Le Thi Yen (Committee on Social Affairs) said that the regulations on qualifications and training forms of higher education including undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees (Clause 1, Article 6) were not suitable for the medical profession.
"The medical training program is more complicated, the duration is longer, post-graduate is advanced specialization, specialist I, II, or residency with a total duration of up to 9 years. These people cannot have the same level and degree as bachelor, master, doctor, while the advanced degree level is not yet regulated in the draft law," said Ms. Yen.
