Ministry of Education plans to tighten transcript admission, limit enrollment methods in 2026
The Ministry of Education and Training has announced the Draft University Enrollment Regulations for 2026 to collect opinions, with the aim of ensuring fairness, transparency, improving input quality and reducing social pressure. A noteworthy new point is that each training institution is only allowed to use a maximum of 5 enrollment methods (excluding direct admission), towards stability and sustainability in enrollment work.
The draft tightens high school transcript admission when requiring the use of the 6-semester average score of at least 3 subjects, compulsory for Math or Literature, with a minimum weight of 1/3 of the total score. At the same time, candidates for high school transcript admission must achieve at least 16 points (scale 30) in the corresponding high school graduation exam subject combination; some majors also require a threshold of 20 points or more. All admission combinations must have Math or Literature and be suitable for the input requirements of the major.
The draft also stipulates a maximum bonus point of 3 points (scale 30) for achievements of excellent students, talents, foreign language certificates; candidates are allowed to register for a maximum of 10 aspirations and arranged in priority order. In addition, adding subjects for admission who are vocational secondary school students and regulations separately for teacher training majors, only considering aspirations from 1 to 3. See more...
Creating breakthroughs in teacher remuneration from new salary and allowance policies
University suspends and removes lecturer names on doctoral steles for using fake degrees
Hanoi National University of Education 2 suspended teaching and removed the name from the doctoral honor stele for a department head of the English Department after this person admitted to using an illegal doctoral degree. The school also reviewed all related diplomas and coordinated with functional agencies to verify and handle according to regulations.
The above information was announced by the school's leaders and Principal Nguyen Quang Huy at the honoring ceremony for 12 new doctors in 2025. The Principal emphasized that the use of fake degrees not only violates the law but also seriously infringes upon scientific integrity - the core ethical foundation of researchers, so the school resolutely removed the name of this lecturer from the doctoral steles.
The incident originated from a forum reflection on scientific integrity, accompanied by images of doctoral steles in the "Doctoral Garden" of the school with two locations whose names were erased. See more...
Verifying the incident of a teacher arbitrarily correcting more than 100 student scores
To Hien Thanh High School (Thanh Hoa) has established an inspection team to verify reflections about Ms. Doan Thi Hang - a Literature teacher arbitrarily correcting 126 scores of students in classes 11C4, 11C9 and 12B3 when entering scores into the VnEdu system in the mid-term and final semester exams of the first semester of the 2025-2026 school year.
According to reports, many scores have been revised in the direction of increasing from 1-3 points compared to the actual results announced, even in some cases from 5-6 points up to 8 points; besides, there are also students who have their scores lowered. The teacher explained the reason is that the computer and network transmission lines are intermittent when entering data, but the school confirmed that errors occurred and is clarifying related responsibilities. See more...
