It is not compulsory for students to take intensive foreign language courses at university.

Universities need to better organize intensive foreign language teaching to gradually improve output quality, but students should not be required to take these classes.

That is one of the contents in the official dispatch of the Ministry of Education and Training sent to universities, academies and colleges to guide the teaching of enhanced foreign languages.

Foreign language class of Hanoi University students.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the Project on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages ​​in the National Education System for the 2008-2020 period stipulates that graduates must achieve foreign language proficiency level 3 for non-language colleges and universities, level 4 for language colleges and level 5 for language universities according to the 6-level Foreign Language Proficiency Framework for Vietnam.

Currently, the foreign language proficiency of students upon admission is very different and most of them do not meet the standards. Given this reality, schools need to implement enhanced foreign language teaching to support the main training program to ensure the foreign language proficiency of students upon graduation.

Specifically, the Ministry guides schools to gradually develop advanced foreign language output standards for each admission course and each training program, but must aim to soon achieve the Project's goals, and the roadmap to achieving foreign language output standards must ensure feasibility and suitability with actual conditions.

The school publicly announces the output standards for foreign languages, the roadmap to achieve the standards as well as the types of foreign language certificates accepted for exemption from studying and taking foreign language exams on the school's official website before each course and semester so that students can plan their studies and achieve the standards according to regulations.

While high school students have not yet learned foreign languages ​​according to the new program (10-year curriculum, issued according to the Project's regulations), the school encourages students to participate in intensive foreign language learning but it is not compulsory.

The arrangement of intensive foreign language classes must be based on the results of students' entrance exams to classify them according to their actual abilities.

The learning content, curriculum, documents and implementation forms should be diverse, suitable to the actual conditions of the school and the capacity of the students to create an environment and conditions for learning and to best develop the students' abilities.

The duration of intensive foreign language training is decided by the school based on the actual conditions of the school, the requirements on foreign language output standards of each industry and training field, and ensuring current regulations on the minimum amount of knowledge for each training level.

The budget for teaching foreign languages ​​is proactively built by schools and tuition fees are collected in accordance with the Government's regulations, according to the principle of agreement with learners, ensuring cost recovery. The collection of tuition fees for teaching foreign languages ​​is not calculated for the content of the training program according to mandatory regulations.

According to Vietnam+