University and College Admissions 2016: Can independent candidates register for admission?

On the afternoon of October 20, at the press conference at the beginning of the school year, the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training said that in 2016, the university and college admissions method will be maintained as this year, but the autonomy of the schools will be increased. They can enroll students in batches with different exam scores or they can let some attractive universities join hands to enroll students themselves.

Free schools?

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga said: “Learning from the shortcomings in the recent admissions, some regulations will have to be adjusted to make the admissions process smoother and safer. The Ministry’s direction is to increase the autonomy of schools, and the Ministry will propose solutions to help schools be less “virtual” but also ensure the best interests of candidates.”

Regarding the direction of increasing autonomy for schools, Mr. Ga said that most likely after the high school exam results are available, the Ministry will transfer data to schools and at the same time remove the regulation that exam clusters issue certificates of results to candidates. The issuance of 4 certificates of results as recently was to limit "fake" but if this move is removed, it means that candidates can register for admission to as many schools as they want.

It is expected that in 2016, schools will have increased autonomy in the admission process - Photo: Dao Ngoc Thach

According to Mr. Ga, the Ministry recently used a common data management software so that if a candidate is admitted to one school, he or she will not be considered for admission to another school, but now the Ministry will allow candidates to freely register and schools will freely consider admission. However, Mr. Ga said that these moves will cause the number of fake candidates to increase very high, not only will it be difficult for schools to recruit, but it is also not certain that the candidates will benefit. "Therefore, the Ministry will call on schools to discuss and propose solutions to reduce fake candidates when schools and candidates will be "released" by the Ministry like that," Mr. Ga emphasized.

Large schools can join forces to recruit students.

Mr. Ga said that it is possible to divide the admission rounds into different rounds, each round will only consider each level of the candidate's exam score, or the Ministry will encourage the top schools to join together to do the admission work in their group. "Recently, only about 30 universities attracted a large number of candidates with high scores, the withdrawal and submission of candidates' applications also mainly took place in this group of schools. Now if we let these schools join together, they can jointly issue regulations such as candidates who have registered for one of these schools cannot register for the remaining schools in the group, or candidates can give the order of their first, second, third preferences... with the schools in this group of schools", he suggested. "The Ministry's goal is to, on the one hand, give autonomy, increase the rights of candidates, and on the other hand, control the safety of both candidates and schools", Mr. Ga said.

Regarding the problem of many universities and colleges facing difficulties in recruiting students and what solutions are available for the future of these schools, Deputy Minister Bui Van Ga said this is also an important basis for discussing the restructuring of the university and college system to improve the efficiency of resource use. "The direction being considered is to turn the schools into branches of other universities and colleges or to organize for those schools to cooperate in training with large schools," said Mr. Ga.

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It is impossible to ban extra classes by administrative measures.

At the press conference, many reporters asked: Although there are clear regulations prohibiting widespread tutoring, why does this phenomenon still occur year after year? Mr. Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, said: The Ministry has sufficient documents regulating tutoring. However, thoroughly solving the problem of tutoring cannot be done by administrative solutions but must be done by many supportive solutions. According to Mr. Hien, if we direct the innovation of assessment and evaluation well, and the teaching process focuses on each student, then the need for tutoring will gradually disappear. If assessment and evaluation do not set too high a demand on learners, then learners will not need to learn advanced knowledge anymore. "We still persist in teaching 2 sessions/day without tutoring," Mr. Hien concluded. History education content is mandatory at high school level

The Ministry of Education and Training yesterday announced a report on receiving and explaining comments on the draft general education program. In response to some suggestions that history should be included as a compulsory subject at high school level, the Ministry of Education and Training explained: According to the draft program, at high school level, citizenship and the Fatherland is one of four compulsory subjects, integrating three sub-subjects: ethics - citizenship, history and national defense - security.

Thus, the content of history education, national defense and security is compulsory for all high school students. In addition, at this level, students can choose to study History in social sciences (a subject for students who are inclined towards natural sciences and technology) or this subject and some extended, in-depth study topics on history for students who are inclined towards social sciences and arts. At the same time, this content is also integrated into other subjects.

According to Online Youth