Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Scope and regulated entities
This document deals with the higher education accreditation including the education quality assessment standards, the process and frequency of higher education accreditation.
This document is applicable to universities, academies and higher education institutions (hereinafter referred to as educational institutions) in the national education system, including the foreign-invested educational institutions that run within the Vietnam’s territory; education accrediting organization established by, or obtaining permission for the establishment from the Minister of Education and Training; relevant organizations and individuals.
Definitions
In this document, terms are construed as follows:
Education quality of higher educational institutions refers to the achievement of targets set by an education institution, the fulfillment of the requirements concerning such targets in the Law on Higher Education, the satisfaction of the demand for human resource trained for the local and national socio-economic development.
Assessment of educational quality of higher educational institutions refers to the collection and processing of information and the delivery of the judgments based on the quality assessment standards for all activities of an educational institution, including: the quality assurance in terms of its strategy, system, performance and operational results.
Higher education accreditation refers to the assessment process and recognition of the extent of the conformity of an educational institution to the education quality assessment standards promulgated by the Minister of Education and Training.
Internal assessment refers to a process during which an educational institution examines and assesses itself based on the education quality assessment standards provided by the Ministry of Education and Training in order to make a report on its actual situation of education quality, the efficiency of its training, scientific researches, personnel, facilities, and other relevant issues for the purpose of adjusting the resources and the course of implementation in order to meet the education quality standards.
External assessment refers to the survey and assessment carried out by an education accrediting organization based on the education quality assessment standards provided by the Ministry of Education and Training in order to determine the extent of the conformity of the educational institution with the education quality standards.
Set of standards for assessment of the quality of educational institutions refer to the degree of eligibility requirements and conditions at which an educational institution is required to meet to be recognized as an accredited educational institution. Each standard corresponds to a field of activities of the institution and is composed of several criteria.
Criterion for education quality assessment refers to the degree of requirement and condition that must be satisfied in a particular aspect of each standard.
Expected learning outcome refers to the minimum requirements concerning knowledge, skills, a sense of self-discipline and responsibility a student expects to achieve upon completion of the educational program, the educational institution has promised to students and society and made known to the public together with necessary conditions for fulfillment of these requirements.
Programme designed for a specific level of a major includes objectives and requirements relating to knowledge, expected learning outcome; program contents, methodologies and activities; facilities and amenities, institutional structure, functions, duties and academic activities of an educational institution entrusted with offer of prescribed major.
Curriculum for a level-specific programme includes general and specific objectives and expected learning outcomes for each major and course; educational contents, assessment methodologies and time length of each major and course.
Benchmarking refers to the process of contrasting and comparing an education institution or programme with a set of educational quality assessment standards or with another designated higher education institution or programme.
Related party of an educational institution refers to the student, lecturer, employee, leader and manager, employer, partners, student's family, investor, supervisory authority, State regulatory authority in charge of education, other relevant organizations and individuals.
Educational philosophy refers to a collection of core perspectives that describe the educational purpose, the content and methods of teaching, the role of teachers and learners in educational activities.
Purpose of application of standards for assessment of the quality of educational institutions
Educational institutions shall use the standards for assessment of the quality of educational institutions to evaluate their entire activities in order to continuously improve the quality of education and to address realistic conditions of education quality and the performance of units to the concerned parties.
Education accrediting organizations shall use the standards for assessment of the quality of educational institutions to assess and grant or deny granting recognition of conformity with education quality standards for educational institutions.
Other organizations and individuals shall rely on such standards to give their opinions, assess and participate in public consultations on educational institutions in which they are interested.
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