Chương VII Luật giáo dục đại học 2012: Bảo đảm chất lượng và kiểm định chất lượng giáo dục đại học

Chapter VII

HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ASSESSMENT

Article 49. Targets, principles, and subjects of higher education quality assessment

1. The targets of higher education quality assessment:

a) Assuring and improving the higher education quality;

b) Verifying the fulfillment of the higher education duties in each period of the higher education institutions or the training programs;

c) Forming the bases for higher education institutions to provide explanation for competent State management agencies and for the society about the actual training quality;

d) Forming the basis for students to choose higher education institutions, training programs and for the recruitment of employers.

2. The principles of higher education quality assessment:

a) Independent, objective and lawful;

b) Truthful, public and express;

c) Equitable, compulsory and periodic

3. The subjects of higher education quality assessment:

a) Higher education institutions;

b) The training programs of higher education

Article 50. Duties and authority of higher education institutions in higher education quality assurance

1. Establishing the organizations specialized in higher education quality assurance.

2. Formulating and implementing plans for higher education quality assurance;

3. Actively assessing, innovating and improving the training quality; periodically registering for the assessment of the training program and the higher education institution.

4. Sustaining and developing the conditions for training quality assurance, including:

a) The teaching staff, management staff and employees;

b) The training programs, textbooks and teaching materials;

c) The classrooms, offices, library, information technology system, laboratories, workshops, dorms and other amenities;

d) The financial resources.

5. Publicly announcing the conditions for assuring the training quality, scientific research and training results, the quality assessment and assurance results on the websites of the Ministry of Education and Training, the higher education institution and means of mass media.

Article 51. Duties and authority of higher education institutions in higher education quality assessment

1. Subject to the education quality assessment at the request from State management agencies in charge of education.

2. Implement the regulations on information and report on higher education quality assessment.

3. Being entitled to choose an education quality assessment organization among the education quality assessment organizations accredited by the Ministry of Education and Training to carry out the assessment of the higher education institution quality and the training program quality.

4. Being entitled to complain and denounce to competent agencies about the decisions, conclusions and illegal acts of organizations and individuals that carry out higher education quality assessment.

Article 52. Education quality assessment organizations

1. Education quality assessment organizations are responsible for to assess and recognize the qualification of higher education institutions and the training programs.

Education quality assessment organizations are legal entities and bear responsibilities before the law for the higher education quality assessment.

2. Education quality assessment organizations are established after the establishment projects are made in accordance with the education quality assessment organization network planning; The education quality assessment is granted when the facilities, equipment, finance and the assessment staff satisfy the requirements for higher education quality assessment.

3. The Minister of Education and Training shall promulgate the national standards of higher education institutions; specify the standards of higher education quality assessment, the standards of training programs of higher education, the minimum requirements for implementing the training program; the process and period of higher education quality assessment; the principles of operation, the conditions and standards of organizations and individuals engaging in education quality assessment; the issuance and withdrawal of education quality assessment certificate; the decision on the establishment or the decision on approving the establishment of education quality assessment organizations; granting the education quality assessment.

Article 53. Using the higher education quality assessment results.

The higher education quality assessment results shall be used as the basis for determining the higher education quality, the reputation and prestige of higher education institutions, the entitlement autonomy and independent responsibilities; the investment support and duty allocation; as the basis for the State and the society to supervise the operation of higher education institutions.