Overcoming the shortcomings of early university admission

Do not affect the candidates' learning psychology

Highly agreeing with the draft Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulations on university admission and admission to Preschool College; experts said that the new points of the draft Circular will remove obstacles.

Over the years, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training has always been the unit with the highest number of candidates registering for admission and confirmation of admission to universities and colleges in the country with an increasing admission rate.

Ms. Vuong Huong Giang - Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training cited that in 2022, the number of candidates who confirmed admission to schools was 52,529/92,464 candidates registered for admission, accounting for 56.81%.

In 2023, the number of candidates who confirmed their admission was 69,540/98,208 candidates registered for admission, accounting for 70.81%. In 2024, up to now, the number of candidates in Hanoi registered for admission to schools is 107,127 candidates.

Ms. Vuong Huong Giang highly agrees with the regulations on early admission quotas of universities and the regulations on early admission benchmark scores (after equivalent conversion) not being lower than the admission benchmark scores of the general planned admission round.

The Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that in recent years, when implementing support for candidates to participate in early admission, the Department has found some shortcomings such as: with the desire to be admitted to universities and colleges with early admission quotas, candidates have made many applications to many training institutions, leading to high schools spending a lot of time and effort to copy and print transcripts and confirm documents for candidates while this is the peak time of the High School Graduation Exam.

Furthermore, after having the admission results, candidates do not have the mentality to continue studying, because they only need to graduate from high school, affecting the quality of the exam and the review mentality of other candidates.

Therefore, Ms. Huong Giang believes that the regulation of early admission quotas and admission standard scores ensures fairness among candidates in the admission rounds and reduces the above-mentioned problems.

The Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training also agreed with the regulation that the examination of transcripts must use the results of the entire 12th grade of the candidates. This ensures the assessment of the knowledge of the candidates throughout high school and avoids the phenomenon of lopsided learning, or skipping some subjects in the second semester of the 12th grade, because they only study subjects for the graduation exam.

Improve the quality of admissions

Dr. Le Truong Tung - Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT University affirmed that what the Ministry of Education and Training has implemented and revised the admission regulations in recent years is for the purpose of improving quality, not only the quality of admission, but also the quality of general education.

Thereby, ensuring fairness for candidates, contributing to handling virtual candidates, helping schools enroll students according to plan, simplifying as much as possible for candidates, for schools, accepting difficulties in the system... Dr. Le Truong Tung appreciates and acknowledges the efforts of the Ministry of Education and Training to serve this common goal.

Supporting the changes in the draft amendments and supplements to the Circular on university admission regulations and admissions for Preschool Colleges that are currently soliciting opinions, Dr. Le Truong Tung said that the issue that needs to be discussed now is to review the current admission system and consider how to make the amendments feasible and appropriate.

Accordingly, for early admission, schools need to clearly stipulate that early admission announcements can only be made after the high school graduation exam to ensure that the learning process is not disrupted and that the high school exam results are not affected.

Considering that the enrollment work affects too many related subjects, Ms. Nguyen Thu Thuy - Head of the Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education and Training) discussed that the draft received many consensus opinions, which is a good thing.

This is also the time when the Ministry of Education and Training wants universities to speak up more, so that together with the Ministry, Departments of Education and Training, and general education institutions, they can unify this draft circular before officially issuing it in the near future.