Admissions 2019: Additional regulations on preferential treatment

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According to the draft amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the 2019 Admission Regulations, for military personnel; officers, non-commissioned officers, and conscripts in the People's Public Security who are sent to take the exam, if they have been stationed for 18 months or more in any area, they will enjoy priority according to that area or according to their permanent residence before joining the army, depending on which area has higher priority;

If stationed for 18 months or more in areas with different priority levels, priority will be given to the area with the longer period of stationing; if less than 18 months, priority will be given to the area according to the permanent residence before enlistment.
In addition, regarding priority for other policy subjects, the draft amendments and supplements: Students with permanent residence (during high school or college) for more than 18 months in communes in region III and communes with particularly difficult villages in ethnic and mountainous areas according to regulations of the Minister, Chairman of the Ethnic Committee and the Prime Minister;

Particularly disadvantaged communes in coastal and island areas; particularly disadvantaged communes, border communes, and safe zone communes eligible for investment under Program 135; particularly disadvantaged villages and communes in areas as prescribed by the Prime Minister if studying high school (or intermediate) at a location in a district, town, or city of a province with at least one of the above-mentioned communes.

For schools with preliminary selection procedures, the Ministry of Education and Training requires schools that organize specialized competency assessment exams or have aptitude tests combined with the use of national high school exam results: determine and publicly announce on the school's website and other mass media the time and application documents for preliminary selection; procedures and conditions for meeting preliminary selection requirements; exam organization methods, sample exam questions for schools that organize specialized competency assessment exams and admission methods and implement the prescribed admission process.

Also in the draft, the Ministry of Education and Training also requires schools to provide full information on quality assurance conditions: facilities (classrooms, practice/laboratory rooms and key equipment, learning materials), teaching staff, training scale, rate of full-time students having jobs within 12 months of graduation in the last 2 years compared to the year of enrollment by major.