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THE
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
18/2000/QD-BGDDT
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Hanoi,
June 08, 2000
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DECISION
ISSUING THE POST-GRADUATE TRAINING REGULATION
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 15/CP
of March 2, 1993 on the tasks, powers and State management responsibilities of
the ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 29/CP of March 30, 1994 on the tasks,
powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training;
Pursuant to December 2, 1998 Education Law No. 11/1998/QH10;
At the proposal of the Director of the Postgraduate Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To issue
together with this Decision the Postgraduate Training Regulation.
Article 2.- This
Decisions takes effect 15 days after its signing and replaces Decision No.
647/GDDT of February 14, 1996 of the Minister of Education and Training issuing
the Regulation on postgraduate training and fostering. The previous regulations
of the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Intermediate Vocational Training, the
Ministry of Tertiary Education, Intermediate Professional and Vocational
Training and the Ministry of Education and Training on postgraduate training
and fostering, which are contrary to the provisions of the Postgraduate
Training Regulation are all hereby annulled. The director of the Postgraduate
Department of the Ministry of Education and Training shall have to guide in
detail the implementation of this Regulation.
Article 3.- The director
of the Office, the heads of the relevant units, of the Ministry of Education
and Training, the heads of the postgraduate training establishments and those
who participate in the postgraduate training shall have to implement this
Decision.
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MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Nguyen Minh Hien
POSTGRADUATE
TRAINING REGULATION
(Issued together with Decision No. 18/2000/QD-BGDDT of June 8, 2000 of the
Minister of Education and Training)
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of
regulation
The Postgraduate Training Regulation provides
for training activities in postgraduate education, the postgraduate training institutions,
the training programs and the management of postgraduate training; the tasks,
rights and responsibilities of organizations and individuals participating in
postgraduate training in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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1. Postgraduate training is conducted for
university graduates, aiming to equip them with postgraduate knowledge and
raise their practicing skills in order to build a contingent of science workers
with political and moral qualities, the sense of serving the people, and with
high professional qualifications, meeting the country’s requirements of
socio-economic, scientific and technological development.
2. Postgraduate training includes master’s
training, doctoral training and postgraduate fostering.
Masters must have the firm professional
knowledge; the practicing capability and high adaptability to the scientific,
technical and economic developments as well as the ability to identify and
solve problems related to the specialties they are trained in.
Doctors must have high theoretical and
practicing qualifications; the capability to conduct research creatively and
independently; the ability to provide instruction for scientific research as
well as professional activities, to identify and solve scientific and
technological problems.
Postgraduate fostering constitutes a form of
training to supplement, update and raise participants’ knowledge to keep pace
with the scientific and technological developments in the country and the world.
Article 3.- Training
forms and duration
1. Master’s and doctoral training is conducted
in two forms of full-time and part-time training.
a/ Full-time training is a form of training
where students must fully devote their time to study and research as provided
for by the training institutions’ curricula.
b/ Part-time training is a form of training
where students may spend part of their time on doing other work; but the total
amount of time reserved for their study and research at training institutions must
be equivalent to that of the full-time training.
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2. The time for master’s training shall be two
years for full-time training and three years for part-time training.
The time for full-time doctoral training shall
be four years for holders of a university degree; between two and three years
for holders of a master’s degree. The time for part-time doctoral training
shall be five years for holders of a university degree; from three to four
years for holders of a master’s degree.
Article 4.- Postgraduate
training institutions
1. Postgraduate training institutions are
universities and scientific research institutes that are assigned by the Prime
Minister the postgraduate training tasks; with universities providing master’s
and doctoral training while scientific research institutes providing doctoral
training and coordinating with universities in providing master’s training.
2. Conditions for being assigned the
postgraduate training tasks:
a/ Having a strong contingent of science workers
who hold the degree of doctor or doctor of science or the title of associate
professor or professor; the capacity to formulate the training programs and
organize the implementation thereof, the capacity to organize supervision and
arrange supervisors for Master’s dissertations or doctoral theses.
b/ Having necessary material and technical bases
for the study and scientific research of postgraduate trainees and students.
c/ Having experiences in the work of scientific
research, training and fostering the contingent of science workers,
technicians, as demonstrated in the completion of scientific research projects
at doctoral thesis’s level, the fulfillment of research tasks in the projects
under the State-level or ministerial-level programs, as well as in good
organization of scientific activities and postgraduate fostering classes.
3. Postgraduate training institutions which fail
to maintain the conditions stated in Clause 2 of this Article or fail to
fulfill or refuse to perform their assigned tasks shall be suspended from
performing the postgraduate training tasks.
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MASTER’S TRAINING
Section 1. MASTER’S TRAINING
PROGRAMS
Article 5.- Requirements
for master’s training programs
1. The master’s training programs must assure to
supplement and raise postgraduate trainees’ knowledge already studied in
universities; modernize their specialty knowledge; enhance their
interdisciplinary knowledge; enable them to fulfill their professional work and
scientific research in the specialized branches of their study.
2. Each master’s training program must include a
volume of between 80 and 100 credits, with a credit being equal to around 15
theoretical lecture periods, 30 to 40 empirical, experimental or seminar
periods, 45 to 60 periods for essay or dissertation writing. To absorb one
theoretical, empirical or experimental credit students must spend at least 30
preparatory periods.
3. A Master’s training program include three
units:
a/ Unit 1- Background knowledge: including
philosophy and foreign language courses, which are intended to equip the
students with methodological knowledge and means so that they can proceed with the
study of subjects in the unit on base and specialized knowledge, and
investigation into the dissertation topics.
b/ Unit 2 - Base and specialized knowledge:
including study subjects to supplement and improve base and interdisciplinary
knowledge, broaden and update specialized knowledge, including specialized
informatics and the scientific research methodology of a particular branch,
helping students to have a firm theoretical understanding and practicing
capability, the capability for practical activities to solve professional
problems. This unit consists of two groups of study subjects :
- Group of compulsory study subjects: including
those with essential contents of a particular branch and specialty, some of
which are generally prescribed by the Ministry of Education and Training for
each branch at the proposal of the Council of the Branch or Subject.
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c/ Unit 3 – Master’s dissertations: Master’s
dissertation topics are specific scientific, technical or managerial issues
either assigned by training institutions or proposed by the students, agreed
upon by their supervisors and approved by the Department’s Scientific and
Training Council and the training institutions.
Article 6.- Structure of
a master’s training program
The structure of a master’s training program is
formulated the basis of the training characteristics, requirements and
objectives of a branch or specialized branch of study.
Following are two types of structure of the
master’s training program:
Type 1: applicable to training programs intended
mainly to equip students with knowledge and practicing skills. This structure
is composed of:
Unit 1 accounting for 20% of the volume of the
training program;
Unit 2 accounting for 65-70% of the volume of
the training program;
Unit 3 accounting for 10-15% of the volume of
the training program.
Type 2: Applicable to training programs for
those engaged in scientific research work. This structure is composed of:
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Unit 2 accounting for 50-55% of the volume of
the training program;
Unit 3 accounting for 25-30% of the volume of
the training program.
Article 7.- The
framework program
The framework program is formulated on the basis
of the program requirements and structure stated in Articles 5 and 6 of this
Regulation. The framework program of each specialized branch of study must
clearly state the training objectives and requirements of the specialized
branch of study; the training program structure, the total number of credits;
the structure, principal contents and credit distribution of different subjects
on base and specialized knowledge; time distribution for theoretical training,
practice and ways of assessment of each course.
The framework program of each specialized branch
of study is developed by each training institution or group of training
institutions. The framework program of each specialized branch of study must be
adopted by the Scientific and Training Council of the training institution and
approved by the Ministry of Education and Training when assigning the
specialized training tasks to the training institution.
Apart from the study subjects prescribed by the
Ministry of Education and Training, other subjects may be adjusted and/or added
when necessary by the training institution provided that such adjustments
and/or additions are passed by its Scientific and Training Council, reported to
the Ministry of Education and Training and filed at the training institution as
the legal basis for organization of training.
Section 2. ORGANIZATION OF
MASTER’S TRAINING
Article 8.- Organization
of tuition
1. Organization of the tuition of different
subjects in a master’s training program rests with the training institution,
which includes the determination of the requirements and contents of study
subjects, the elaboration of tuition plans on the basis of the framework
program already approved.
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2. At the beginning of a study course, the
training institution must notify students of the study plan and curricula for
the whole course, the plan on the test, examination and assessment of each
subject of the specialized branches of study, the timetable for defense of
graduation dissertations, rules on study and recognition of graduation, duties
and interests of students.
3. Teaching of the subjects in the master’s
training program must be effected through the combination of in-class tuition,
self-study and self-inquiry, with importance being attached to promoting the
students’ practice skills and capability to identify and solve professional
problems.
4. In order to implement the tuition plan, a
detailed syllabus must be prepared for every study subject and approved by the
study subject section. Such a detailed syllabus must clearly identify:
a/ The objectives, contents and teaching methods
for each part, chapter and section.
b/ The time for class tuition and practice
sessions.
c/ The reading list.
d/ The requirements for assignments, essays,
regular tests and final examinations.
e/ Mark proportions of regular tests,
assignments, essays and final examination.
f/ Full names, academic degrees, titles
(associate-professor or professor) of the subject’s lecturers.
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6. The training institution shall have to work
out tuition plans for all subjects of each specialized study branch for every
training course and manage the implementation thereof.
7. The head of the training institution shall
have to organize the inspection and supervision of the implementation of the
tuition plans and timetables, compilation of detailed syllabuses and subject
assessment by lecturers.
Article 9.- Subject
assessment
1. General provisions
The assessment of study subjects shall be
effected through assignments, regular tests, essay writing and final
examinations. Each subject must be assessed at least twice through assignments
or essays or tests and final examinations. Tests and final examinations may
take oral or written form.
2. Organization of subject assessment
a/ Subject lecturers organize regular tests,
assignments and essays as required by the subject’s detailed syllabus.
The study subject section and the subject
lecturers organize the subjects’ final examinations. The study subject
section’s head shall have to organize the preparation of final examinations’
questions or use the bank of examination questions. Examination questions must
conform to the subject’s content.
Annually, the training institution must research
into and analyze the examination results of various subjects in the training
program so as to ensure the scientific preparation of examination questions and
the accurate and fair examination and assessment.
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c/ The subject-assessing marks (including the
regular test, assignment, essay, and final examination marks) shall be given
according to a scale of 0 to 10, if a fractional mark is given, only the
decimal fraction 0.5 is accepted. The subject mark is the aggregate of the
subject-assessing marks already multiplied with their corresponding marking proportions
prescribed in the subject’s detailed syllabus, rounded up to one decimal
fraction. The subject shall be considered satisfactory if its mark is from 5.0
upward.
d/ The subject-assessing marks must be
publicized right after the marking is finished. The subject-assessing marks and
the subject marks must be inscribed in the subject mark sheet for each training
course according to the uniform form set by the institution, bearing the
signatures of markers and head of the study subject section.
e/ Each subject’s assessing marks and overall
mark of each student must be inscribed in the general mark registry of the
training course.
g/ The head of the training institution shall
provide for the preservation of examination scripts, the marking procedures and
archiving of marked examination script. Marked examination scripts must be kept
at least for three years after the end of the training course. The other
dossiers and documents of regular tests and final examinations must be archived
at the institutions for a long time.
3. Conditions for sitting the final examinations
Students shall be allowed to sit the final
examinations if they meet the following conditions:
a/ Attending at least 80% of the theoretical
lecture periods prescribed in the subject’s detailed syllabus.
b/ Participating in all practice sessions and
academic activities.
c/ Getting all assignment, regular test and
essay marks as prescribed for the subject.
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Students who miss one of the regular tests or
final examinations for plausible reasons shall be permitted to take the
make-ups (in this case they shall be considered as taking the first
examination). The timetable of make-ups must be determined in the teaching
timetable. Re-examination shall not be organized for students with regular test
marks below 5.
Apart from the regular rests and final
examinations stated in the teaching timetable and announced right at the start
of the training course, no other examinations shall be organized.
Students who are not qualified to sit the final
examination for a particular subject shall have to repeat such subject in the
next course.
4. Students who fail any subject with
unsatisfactory mark(s) may take the second final examination therefor. The
reexamination schedule must be fixed and announced in the teaching schedule at
the start of the training course and organized at least four weeks after the
first examination. For this time, the subject mark shall be recalculated
according to the second examination mark and must be clearly inscribed as such.
A student whose subject mark remains
unsatisfactory even with the re-examination result must repeat the subject in the
next course. The number of subjects in a study course re-taken by a student in
the next course must not exceed three and he/she must self-finance the study of
such units. A student who has to repeat four subjects or has repeated from one
to three subjects but the mark of one of these subjects remains under 5, shall
be suspended from study.
5. All mark-related complaints shall be settled
according to the regulations of the training institutions within one month
after the announcement of the examination results.
6. Handling of breaches in the subject-assessing
process
The handling of breaches during regular tests
and final examinations shall comply with the regulations on qualifying
postgraduate examinations. Students who fraudulently copy others’ assignments
or essays shall get mark zero (0) for such assignments or essays.
Article 10.- Master’s
dissertations and supervisors
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2. Supervisors of Master’s dissertations must
meet all the criteria stated in Article 32 of this Regulation. Holders of the
title of associate professor or professor, or the degree of doctor of science
may supervise 5 students at most at a time. Holders of the degree of doctor may
supervise 3 students at most at a time.
3. Students shall be allowed to defend their
Master’s dissertations if they fully meet the following conditions:
a/ Having passed the subjects in the program
prescribed for the specialized branch of study.
b/ Obtaining their supervisor’s approval to
defend their dissertations.
c/ Not being course to a warning or a more
severe form of discipline.
Article 11.- The
Master’s Dissertation-Marking Board
1. The Master’s Dissertation-Marking Board shall
be set up by decision of the head of the training institution. Such a board has
five members who are holders of the degree of doctor or doctor of science or
the title of associate professor or professor, compatible to the students’
specialized field of study, two of whom are from outside the training
institution. The Board’s composition includes a chairman, a secretary, two
critics and a member.
The critics must be knowledgeable about the
dissertation’s topic and must not be co-authors with the defenders of the
publicized works related to the dissertation’s topic. The Board’s members must
be responsible before law for the truthfulness of their comments on and
assessments of the dissertation.
The Board’s members must not be parents,
spouses, children or siblings of the dissertation’s author.
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2. The dissertation defense shall not be
conducted in one of the following circumstances:
a/ The Board’s chairman is absent.
b/ The Board’s secretary is absent.
c/ The critic who has an opinion disapproving
the dissertation is absent.
d/ Two or more members of the Board are absent.
Dissertations must be publicly defended. For
dissertations related to national secrets, their defense shall be conducted
according to separate guidance.
3. The training institution shall work out the
regulations on the way of assessing and marking dissertations and guide the
Board’s members to follow. The assessment of a dissertation must ensure the
accurate evaluation of the student’s level of knowledge, ability to apply
knowledge to solving questions raised by the dissertation topic. The marks
given by the Board’s members are on a scale of from 0 to 10, if a fractional
mark is given, only the decimal fraction of 0.5 is accepted. The mark of a
dissertation is the mean of the marks given by the Board’s members present at
the defense ceremony, calculated up to one decimal fraction and not rounded up.
A dissertation is deemed unsatisfactory if it
gets a mark below 5. In this case, the student is allowed to rewrite it for the
second-time defense. The time for a training course’s second-time defenses must
be within from four to six months after the last day of the period of
first-time defenses. Students themselves shall bear all costs of rewriting and
re-defense of their dissertations. Third-time defense shall not be organized.
Article 12.- Changes in
the training process
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2. Students may ask for permission to change
their specialized study field in the same branch once, which share the same
subjects for entrance examinations as well as the same compulsory subjects of
the base knowledge unit. Any change of the specialized branch of study shall be
permitted only where there are plausible reasons and before the start of the
unit on specialized knowledge.
3. In special cases due to a force majeure
event, students may ask for permission to defer their study not more than once
and continue their study in the next course; or to defend their dissertations
in the re-defense period or with the next course.
4. The heads of training institutions shall
consider and decide whether or not to permit students to shift to new training
institutions, change their specialized study field, defer their study; to send
back to their localities or employing agencies students who fail to complete
the training program or who are suspended from study under Clause 4, Article 9
of this Regulation and report such to the Ministry of Education and Training.
Article 13.- Awarding
master’s degrees and mark
sheets
After the completion of the training course at
the prescribed time, the heads of training institutions shall organize the
consideration and recognition of graduation for students who have got the pass
marks for all study subjects and dissertations as required by the training
programs. Before awarding degrees, the heads of the training institutions shall
report to the Ministry of Education and Training the list of students who have
been recognized as having graduated from training courses according to the form
set in the Ministry of Education and Training’s
Guidelines on the organization and management of postgraduate training.
Graduates shall be awarded the master’s degrees together with the
whole-course mark sheets by the heads of the training institutions. A
whole-course mark sheet must clearly inscribe the names of the study subjects,
the number of credits of each subject, the subject mark, the total number of
credits of all subjects, the overall mark of all subjects, the title and mark
of the dissertation, and the list of the members of the Dissertation-Marking
Board.
Chapter III
DOCTORAL TRAINING
Section 1. DOCTORAL TRAINING
PROGRAMS
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1. The doctoral training programs must assure to
help postgraduate students to improve and consolidate their basic knowledge,
acquire a deep specialized knowledge, have the capabilities for independent
scientific research and creative professional activities.
2. A doctoral training program consists of three
units:
a/ Unit 1- The study subjects of the master’s training program prescribed at
Points a and b, Clause 3, Article 5 of this Regulation.
Postgraduate students with a master’s degree for the same specialty
shall not have to study this unit. Those who have a master’s degree in the course close to
that in which they are trained for a doctorate must take necessary additional
subjects to acquire the knowledge like those with the master’s degree in the same specialty.
b/ Unit 2 - Doctoral majors
The doctoral majors aim to equip postgraduate
students with the scientific research capabilities, update and raise the
knowledge relevant to the topics of their theses, helping them to properly
treat the thesis topics.
Annually, the heads of the training institutions
shall have to approve the list of majors for each specialized branch of
training. The number of majors for each specialized branch must be large enough
for their options. Supervisors shall help doctoral students to select majors
which are suitable and practical for inquiry into their theses’ topics. Each doctoral student
must complete at least three majors with a total volume of between 5 and 10
credits (credits are prescribed in Clause 2, Article 5 of this Regulation).
c/ Unit 3- Doctoral theses
The doctoral thesis must be a scientific work
containing new valuable contributions in a particular scientific domain,
demonstrating the student’s
independent and creative scientific research capabilities. Such new
contributions may include:
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- Creative applications and scientific
developments based on existing achievements, aiming to meet the practical
socio-economic and scientific-technological requirements.
Section 2. ORGANIZATION OF
DOCTORAL TRAINING
Article 15.- Management
of doctoral students
1. In the study process, doctoral students are
considered members of the study subject section or research bureau (hereinafter
collectively called the study subject section) of the training institutions.
2. The study subject section has the tasks of:
a/ Proposing supervisors for doctoral students
and define doctoral students’
research topics.
b/ Determining the plans on training doctoral
students, creating conditions, monitoring and supervising the implementation
thereof.
c/ Managing doctoral students during the study
and research process.
d/ Organizing regular academic activities so
that students can report on their research results and doctoral majors.
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Article 16.-
Supervisors of doctoral students
1. Before enrolling doctoral students, the
training institutions must announce the list of potential supervisors as well as
possible research areas so as to create conditions for candidates to choose
appropriate supervisors. Supervisors of doctoral students must meet the
criteria set in Article 32 of this Regulation and submit to the direction of
the study subject section.
2. Doctors of science, professors and associate
professors who are experienced in doctoral fostering and training and
scientific research may supervise doctoral students independently if so
approved by the training institutions.
3. If a doctoral student is assigned two
supervisors:
a/ One of them acts as the principal supervisor
assuming the prime responsibility and directing the supervisors’ collective to fulfill the
prescribed tasks.
b/ The other acts as the secondary supervisor
responsible for participating in the supervisors’
collective’s activities
guiding the doctoral students according to the principal supervisor’s assignment.
4. Doctors of science and professors may
supervise or participate in supervising 5 students at most at a time. Doctors
and associate professors may supervise or participate in supervising 3 students
at most at a time. Each supervisor may supervise not more than 2 students of
the same course.
5. After the Ministry of Education and Training
issues decisions to recognize doctoral students, the heads of the training
institutions issue decisions on the lists of supervisors and report them to the
Ministry of Education and Training.
Article 17.-
Organization of the study of subjects under the master’s
training program
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Article 18.- Carrying
out doctoral majors
Doctoral majors shall be carried out by doctoral
students through self-study and self-research with the help of their
supervisors. The assessment and marking of doctoral majors shall be done
through the students’
presentation of their majors before a major-marking sub-committee at an
academic symposium. The major-marking sub-committee shall consist of three
members who have the degree of doctor or doctor of science or the title of
professor or associate professor, and a profound knowledge of the students’ majors. The heads of training
institutions shall issue decisions on setting up the major-marking
sub-committees.
Article 19.- Carrying
out doctoral theses
Doctoral students shall have to report on their
research outlines, study plan and research plan for carrying out their thesis
when they are dispatched to join the subject section’s
activities. In the course of carrying out their thesis, students must
participate in all scientific symposiums of the subject section, make
scientific reports, write scientific articles, and participate in scientific
activities relevant to their research tasks inside and outside the training
institutions. Doctoral students must spare some time for taking part in the
teaching work at universities or guide scientific research at research
institutes according to the assignment of the study subject section.
Article 20.- Thesis
content and form
1. A doctoral thesis must show that its author
has achieved the objectives and met the requirements regarding knowledge and
scientific research methods, made new contributions to the specialty as
prescribed at Point c, Clause 14 of this Regulation. The thesis must be written
in a cohesive and concise fashion in this order: foreword, chapters,
conclusions, list of references and annexes (if any).
2. The sources of materials or other people’s findings used in the thesis
must be cited. The use of co-authors’
proposals or results must be also clearly stated. If a thesis uses another
person’s materials
(quotations, tables, diagrams, formulas, as well as other materials) without
referring to the author and material source, it shall not be approved for
defense.
3. If the thesis is a scientific work or part of
the scientific work done by a collective with its author being the main
contributor, such must be reported and all documents showing the consent of all
members of the collective must be produced to the training institution.
4. Regarding their presentation, theses must be
written in a coherent, explicit and clean fashion in strict accordance with the
guidance of the Ministry of Education and training.
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Erasure and correction in theses are strictly
forbidden.
Theses must be bound in hard-cover.
Article 21.- Changes in
the training process
1. Any change in the thesis’s topic shall be accepted only
with plausible reasons and in the first semester of the training program.
2. The addition or change of supervisor shall be
made only when it is really necessary and at least one year before the end of
the doctoral student’s
study duration.
3. When having plausible reasons, students may
ask for permission to shift to other training institutions provided that they
have at least one year to complete the prescribed study time and their requests
are approved by the training institutions where they are studying and the new
institutions agree to admit them. The new training institutions shall decide
whether or not to accept the study results the students already obtained and
determine which additional subjects or majors they need to take.
4. Doctoral students shall be deemed to have
completed their training program on time if within the prescribed duration,
they have successfully defended their theses before the State-level
Thesis-Marking Council.
If a student is unable to complete his/her
training program on the prescribed time, at least three months before the
deadline, he/she must make a written request for an extension of the study
time. The extension shall be granted only when there are plausible reasons and
with conditions that, within the extended time, the student shall complete
his/her study and research tasks. Any extended time must not exceed 12 months.
5. At the end of the training duration or after
having successfully defended their theses, doctoral students shall be sent back
to their employing agencies or localities. Those who have not yet finished
their theses may, within two years after the end of the training duration,
return to the training institutions, asking for permission to defend their
theses if it is so proposed by their agencies or localities, agreed by their
supervisors and approved by the training institutions. For this case, the
doctoral students shall bear all thesis defense costs.
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Section 3. ORGANIZATION OF
ASSESSMENT OF DOCTORAL THESES
Article 22.- Assessment
of doctoral theses
Assessment of a doctoral thesis shall be carried
out in two steps:
1. Thesis assessment in the study subject
section
2. Thesis assessment at the State level.
Article 23.- Assessment
in the study subject section
1. After a doctoral student has finished his/her
thesis and training program prescribed in Article 14 of this Regulation,
announced the principal contents of his/her thesis in at least two articles
published in different science journals, the study subject section shall
organize the assessment of the student’s
thesis.
2. The head of the training institution shall
issue a decision on setting up the Thesis-Assessing Board. Such a board shall
consist of from 5 to 7 members who hold the degree of doctor or doctor of
science or the title of professor or associate professor, of whom two shall act
as introducers of the thesis. Most of the Board’s
members are staff of the study subject section and the training institution;
scientists from outside the training institution may be invited to join the
Board.
3. The Board’s
members must peruse and comment on the draft thesis. Assessing the thesis in
the study subject section is an academic activity of the study subject section,
with the participation of many scientists of the same specialty or those close
to that of the thesis’s
topic, as well as interested people, aiming to assess the achieved results,
point to flaws in the content and form of the thesis so that the doctoral
student makes supplements and/or revisions. If the thesis is satisfactory and
passed by the study subject section, the training institution shall prepare
necessary dossiers and formalities for proposing the student’s thesis defense at the State
level.
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Article 24.- The
State-level Thesis-Marking Board
Within no more than three months after the
thesis is passed by the study subject section, the training institution shall
have to transfer the dossier proposing the student’s
thesis defense at the State level to the Ministry of Education and Training.
The Minister of Education and Training shall make a decision on setting up the
State-level Thesis-Marking Board.
Before setting up the State-level Thesis-Marking
Board, the Ministry of Education and Training shall invite two independent
critics of the thesis. Independent critics are scientists who have good ethic
qualities, firm professional qualifications in the field of the doctoral student’s thesis topic, high scientific
prestige and the ability to defend their own scientific ideas. Opinions of
independent critics shall be of advisory value for the Minister of Education
and Training in considering whether or not to permit the student to defend
his/her thesis.
The State-level Thesis-Marking Board shall
consist of 7 members who are scientists with the degree of doctor (for three
years or more) or the degree of doctor of science, or the title of professor or
associate professor, good ethical qualities, profound knowledge of the thesis�s
research topic. The Board shall be composed of a chairman, a secretary, three
critics and other members. The number of members from the training institution
must not exceed three.
Members of the Thesis-Marking Board must not be
parents, spouses, children or siblings of the defending doctoral students.
Critics must be from different agencies and must
not be co-authors with the doctoral student in the publicized works related to
the topic of the thesis.
Article 25.- Conditions
for organization of the State-level thesis defense
1. The training institution must directly
organize the student’s
thesis defense. Students must not participate in the process of preparing for
and organizing their defense, not contact any Board members before their
official written comments are sent to the training institution.
2. The training institution shall organize the
doctoral student’s thesis
defense if the following conditions are met:
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b/ The thesis and its abstract have been sent to
the scientists, scientific organizations and displayed for comments at the
reading hall of the training institution’s
library at least 30 days before the thesis defense day.
c/ There are at least 10 brief written comments
on the thesis made by the scientists holding the degree of doctor or doctor of
science or the title of professor or associate professor within and without the
training institution.
d/ The time, venue and topic of the thesis to be
defended must be announced on the central or local dailies at least 10 days
before the thesis defense day.
3. The Board shall not meet to mark the thesis
if one of the following circumstances occurs:
a/ Its chairman is absent.
b/ Its secretary is absent.
c/ The critic who has an opinion disapproving
the thesis is absent.
d/ Two or more of its members are absent.
e/ The doctoral student is course to a warning
or a more severe discipline.
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Article 26.- Organization
of the State-level thesis defense
1. Theses must be publicly defended. Those
theses involving State secrets shall be defended under a separate guidance. The
thesis defense must be an academic discussion between the thesis author and the
Board’s members and other
participants, ensure academic principles and ethics. All the Board’s members shall have to get to
know thoroughly the thesis before the defense takes place.
2. The thesis shall be assessed by secret vote.
The Board’s members may
only vote approval or disapproval. An abstention vote shall be considered as
disapproval. If approving the thesis, on the basis of its new contributions,
theoretical, empirical or practical, the voter may grade the thesis as
distinction or not.
The thesis shall be considered satisfactory and
approved by the Board if at least three quarters of the number of its present
members vote for it. If 100% of the Board’s
present members cast approval votes and grade the thesis as distinction, the
doctoral student shall be considered and commended by the training institution
and the Ministry of Education and Training.
3. The Board must make a resolution on the
thesis, clearly stating its basic scientific conclusions; scientific bases and
reliability of the theoretical perceptions and conclusions presented in the
thesis; its new points, the theoretical and practical significance together
with the proposals on how to use its research findings; constraints and
shortcomings in its form and content; the extent of satisfaction of the
requirements for a doctoral thesis; the Board’s
recommendations to the Ministry of Education and Training on the recognition
and awarding of the doctoral degree to the doctoral student. The Board’s resolution shall be voted by
show of hands.
4. If the thesis is disapproved by the
Thesis-Marking Board, the doctoral student shall be allowed to revise it and
propose for the second defense which should be organized at least 12 months and
at most 24 months after the date of the first defense. The composition of the
Board shall remain the same. If a member is away, the Ministry of Education and
Training shall add a substitute member. The doctoral student shall bear all
costs of the second defense. The third defense shall not be organized.
Article 27.- Evaluation
and awarding of doctoral degrees.
Within two weeks after the defense of the thesis
before the State-level Thesis-Marking Board the training institution shall have
to transfer to the Ministry of Education and Training the full dossier of the
thesis defense ceremony.
The Ministry of Education and Training shall
evaluate the thesis defense results. In case of necessity, the Ministry of
Education and Training shall set up a Board to evaluate the thesis’s quality, the training process
and, the working process of the State-level Thesis-Marking Board.
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Chapter IV
POSTGRADUATE FOSTERING
Article 29.- Objectives
of postgraduate fostering
Postgraduate fostering is a mode of informal
training aim to provide new knowledge, supplement, update and modernize already
learnt knowledge, satisfy the imperative demands arising in the work or
profession of people holding university or higher degree. Postgraduate
fostering is encouraged to be regularly held at postgraduate training
institutions.
Article 30.-
Postgraduate fostering program
The postgraduate fostering program shall be formulated
to meet the practical requirements of scientific-technological and
socio-economic activities. The contents of the postgraduate forstering program
should be regularly renewed and supplemented in order to achieve the set
objectives. Annually, the postgraduate training institutions shall work out
plans on the program formulation and fostering organization and widely announce
their postgraduate fostering programs.
Article 31.- Tasks and
interests of participants in postgraduate fostering
Participants in postgraduate fostering shall
bear all or some expenses for their study, depending on the funding capability
of their employing ministries, localities or agencies.
Upon completion of the fostering programs,
participants shall be granted postgraduate fostering certificates by the heads
of the training institutions. The postgraduate fostering certificates shall be
valid for the assessment of participants’
progresses in their work and profession.
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LECTURERS
Article 32.- Criteria
of postgraduate lecturers
1. Postgraduate lecturers are those who work as
lecturers or tutors (guiding practices, assignments and discussions) of the
subjects covered by the postgraduate fostering programs, the master’s training programs, and as
supervisors of students to carry out master’s
dissertations or doctoral theses.
2. Postgraduate lecturers must meet the
following criteria:
a/ Having a clear personal record, good
political, ethical and personal qualities;
b/ Holding the master’s
or higher degree, for lecturers of postgraduate fostering programs and tutors
of the master’s training
programs; holding the degree of doctor or doctor of science or the title of
professor or associate professor, for lecturers of theoretical subjects covered
by the master’s training
programs, supervisors of master’s
degree dissertations or doctoral theses.
3. For several branches where there are few
people of doctor degree, the training institutions may select principal
lecturers with master’s
degree to give the theoretical lectures on subjects under the master’s training programs, but must
report such to the Ministry of Education and Training.
4. In addition to the general criteria,
supervisors of dissertations or theses must meet also the following criteria:
- Supervisors of master’s
degree dissertations must be those who have the capability to independently
conduct and organize scientific research and have their scientific works
already publicized.
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5. It is encouraged to invite foreign scientists
who fully meet the criteria in Clauses 2 and 4 of this Article to participate
in the postgraduate training in Vietnam.
Article 33.- Tasks of
postgraduate training lecturers
1. To seriously and fully implement the training
plans and programs, observe the regulations of training institutions and the
Ministry of Education and Training.
2. To regularly improve their teaching methods,
raise the training quality, provide advice and help to trainees, postgraduate
students in their study and research.
3. Supervisors of trainees and postgraduate
students shall have the tasks:
a/ To determine plans and programs for realizing
the research topics.
b/ To guide doctoral students to carry out
doctoral majors and check their performance.
c/ To organize, guide, monitor, check and urge
trainees and postgraduate students to do scientific research and complete their
dissertations or theses.
d/ To make periodical comments and reports to
the study subject section on the study, research and progresses of their
students in each year.
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4. Other tasks as prescribed by law.
Article 34.- Rights of
postgraduate lecturers
1. To be entitled to receive training and
fostering to raise their professional qualifications.
2. To be entitled to postgraduate training
remuneration according to the Government’s
regulations.
3. Other rights as prescribed by law.
Chapter VI
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Article 35.-
Postgraduate students
1. Postgraduate students are those who are
following postgraduate fostering programs, master’s
training programs (called trainees) and doctoral training programs (called
doctoral students).
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a/ They have a clear personal record, are not
being examined for penal liability;
b/ They are fully qualified for and passed
postgraduate entrance examinations organized by postgraduate training
institutions or admitted as graduating students.
The conditions for taking and passing
examinations, and graduating students are prescribed in the Regulation on
Postgraduate Enrolment.
3. Students who are following master’s or doctoral training programs
in a specialized branch or at a certain training institution shall not be
allowed to concurrently study, or take the entrance examination in another
specialized branch or at another postgraduate training institution.
4. Foreigners who pursue postgraduate education
in Vietnam shall observe the Ministry of Education and Training’s Regulation on foreign students
in Vietnam.
Article 36.- Tasks of
postgraduate students
Postgraduate students shall have the following
tasks:
1. To fulfill their study and scientific
research plans as scheduled in the programs and plans of the training
institutions. To report in full and on time their study and research results to
the training institutions.
2. To pay tuition fees according to the
Government’s regulations.
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4. To preserve and protect the training
institutions’ properties.
5. Other tasks as prescribed by law.
Article 37.- Rights of
postgraduate students
Postgraduate students have the following rights:
1. To be respected, equally treated and provided
with all information on their study by training institutions.
2. To participate in activities of mass and
social organizations in the training institution.
3. To have access to libraries, scientific
materials, laboratories, facilities and other material bases of the training
institutions and their coordinating establishments in service of their study
and scientific research.
4. To receive their salaries and salary-based
allowances in full, for students who are State officials and employees, which
are paid by their agencies.
5. To devote time to their study and research according
to the training program prescribed in Article 3 of this Regulation.
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Chapter VII
MANAGEMENT OF
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Article 38.-
Responsibilities of postgraduate training institutions
The training institutions have the following
responsibilities:
1. To work out annual enrollment plans and
quotas for different specialties, which must be approved by their managing
ministries and reported to the Ministry of Education and Training.
2. To develop and manage the training programs,
textbooks and teaching plans for the specialties allowed for training; draw up
dossiers proposing the Ministry of Education and Training to assign them new
specialties for training.
3. To organize annual enrollments according to
the assigned quotas and the Ministry of Education and Training’s regulations.
4. To issue decisions on recognizing successful
examinees; report and propose to the Ministry of Education and Training to
issue decisions on recognizing postgraduate students; to issue decisions on
approving the list of supervisors and postgraduate students’ research topics.
5. To organize training according to the
approved programs.
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7. To organize the assessment of theses in the
study subject sections and the State-level thesis defense for doctoral students
according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s
regulations.
8. To create conditions, supply necessary
equipment, supplies and means for the doctoral students in their study and
research like for the science workers of the training institutions.
9. To manage the training process, the study and
research of trainees and doctoral students, the examination and awarding of
certificates and mark sheets.
10. To award the master’s
degrees and manage the awarding of the master’s
degrees according to their competence.
11. To hold postgraduate fostering classes and
grant certificates thereof.
12. To manage their funding; mobilize additional
funding sources, use and manage other resources for postgraduate training
according to the Government’s
regulations.
13. To organize and manage scientific research
activities on postgraduate training.
14. To enter into international cooperation in
postgraduate training according to the Government’s
regulations.
15. To organize supervision and inspection of
the observance of the regulations on postgraduate training.
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Article 39.- Financial
sources for postgraduate training
1. The financial sources for postgraduate
training include the funding allocated by the State, tuition fees paid by
trainees and postgraduate students, contributions of those who are other than
State officials and employees sent to study according to prescribed quotas,
other financial sources.
2. State officials and employees who are sent
for postgraduate training according to prescribed quotas, who are still in the
prescribed study time, even in extended time, shall receive financial support
from the State.
Other subjects shall have to pay for training
expenses. The level of their payment shall be equivalent to the State’s funding for master’s or doctoral training.
3. Graduating students who proceed directly from
university students shall enjoy the training funding and provided with
stipends.
4. For doctoral theses carried out at the
request of the agencies which send the doctoral students, such agencies shall
have to provide support with necessary funding, supplies, equipment and means
for the doctoral students in their study and research.
5. Postgraduate students who have enjoyed the
State�s training funding but refuse the
postings after their graduation shall have to indemnify the training funding
according to the Government’s
regulations.
6. State officials and employees who are
dispatched by their employing agencies for master’s
or doctoral training for the second or more time shall have to bear all
training costs.
7. Remuneration for foreign postgraduate
lecturers shall be the same as for Vietnamese lecturers, taken from the
financial source for postgraduate training. Other expenses shall be covered by
the inviting training institutions.
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COMMENDATION AND
HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS
Article 40.- Commendation
1. Lecturers who make achievements in providing
high-quality postgraduate training shall be commended by the training
institutions or the Ministry of Education and Training. The results of the
doctoral students’ training
shall be regarded as one of the valuable scientific contributions in the
consideration and recognition of the title of associate professor or professor
and academic commendation according to the law provisions.
2. Postgraduate students who have recorded
outstanding achievements in their study or scientific research shall be
commended by the training institutions or the Ministry of Education and
Training. Those who make exceptionally outstanding achievements in scientific
research shall be proposed to the State for commendation.
Article 41.- Handling
of violations
Individuals or organizations that commit one of
the following acts shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their
violation, be disciplined, administratively sanctioned or examined for penal
liability, and if causing any damage, they shall have to pay compensation
according to law provisions:
1. Illegally setting up postgraduate training
institutions.
2. Breaching the regulations on organization and
activities of training institutions.
3. Changing on their own will the prescribed
training programs or contents; distorting training contents.
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5. Illegally publishing and distributing
teaching materials.
6. Forging dossiers, breaching the regulations
on enrollment, examination and awarding of certificates, mark sheets or diplomas.
7. Fraudulently copying dissertations, theses
and scientific works of other persons.
8. Infringing upon the dignity and bodies of
teachers.
9. Disrupting security and order in the training
institutions or education management agencies.
10. Using the postgraduate training funding for
the wrong purposes, causing loss thereof; taking advantage of postgraduate
training activities to collect money in contravention of regulations.
11. Causing material damage to training
institutions or training management.
12. Other acts of violating the postgraduate
training regulations.
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MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Nguyen Minh Hien