Universities will soon announce admission methods from 2025
The Ministry of Education and Training has just sent a document to universities, academies, universities and pedagogical colleges across the country about the tasks of the new school year 2024-2025.
Among them, one of the emphasized tasks is to promptly announce admission methods from 2025 onwards, thoroughly overcoming the problem of lack of fairness and reliability in admission methods and criteria; ensuring compliance with the 2018 General Education Program, and at the same time having a positive impact on teaching and learning activities in general education...
From 2025, the high school graduation exam will be reformed to only have 4 subjects, including 2 compulsory subjects (Math, Literature) and 2 optional subjects. The number of exam subjects is reduced, it is expected that the admission combinations in university admission will also change, and new combinations will appear. What parents and students are concerned about right now is how will university admission be organized from 2025?
It is necessary to announce the enrollment plan right from the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, so that students and teachers can have early learning plans. But building an admission plan in the direction of "thoroughly overcoming the problem of lack of fairness and reliability in admission methods and criteria", "has a positive impact on teaching and learning activities in general education." information" as directed by the Ministry of Education and Training... is a difficult problem for schools and there are many debates.
How to ensure fairness and increase autonomy?
Remember in 2019, when the revised Higher Education Law took effect, the Ministry of Education and Training and experts praised the law for opening up many opportunities for schools, increasing autonomy and self-responsibility. . Schools have complete autonomy, including autonomy in enrollment. In addition to using the results of the high school graduation exam for admission, many schools use early admission methods such as transcript scores, foreign language certificates, SAT tests, capacity assessments, thinking assessments...
But up to this point, leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training and some experts are concerned about early admission with many methods, causing the standard score according to the graduation exam score method to be pushed up. Early admission has a negative impact on general education at the final stage of this level of education, when students admitted early will tend to stop studying...
It must be acknowledged that using a variety of early admission methods has the positive side of helping candidates increase their chances of being admitted and training institutions to be more proactive in recruiting students, in accordance with the prescribed spirit of university autonomy. in law. But it also creates a trend of candidates rushing to study for foreign language certificates, or taking private exams. Along with that, many universities have moved to reduce admission criteria based on graduation exam scores and increase targets for early admission methods, causing the standard score according to the graduation exam score method to be high, limiting Opportunity for candidates to be admitted based on graduation exam scores. Notably, this phenomenon does not appear in just one school but in many schools.
However, it is impossible to go to the extreme of abandoning the early admission method as some have suggested, because the early admission method is still popular in many countries, and universities have a high degree of autonomy in recruiting students. helps schools select candidates suitable to the characteristics of their training profession. Candidates also have more options to suit each child's abilities and strengths. However, the question is how to ensure fairness between admission methods?
Before announcing enrollment methods from 2025, schools need to develop and perform data analysis to evaluate the correlation between input enrollment and student learning outcomes in each enrollment method and method. make these assessments public. In addition, admission results should be announced early along with the admission based on high school graduation exam scores, so that schools have time to transfer different types of assessments (transcript scores, foreign language certificates, SAT...) to same scale. Announcing benchmark scores at the same time can also prevent students from neglecting their studies of cultural subjects at the end of high school.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training, schools are using more than 20 early admission methods. The Ministry has repeatedly encouraged schools to use graduation scores for admission because it believes that this result is reliable, less expensive, and ensures fairness. But when autonomy is given to schools, the use of diverse enrollment methods is an inevitable trend.
