Circular 06/2025/TT-BGDDT amend Regulation on enrollment in bachelor degree programs in Circular 08/2022/TT-BGDDT

CIRCULAR

Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on enrollment in bachelor and associate degree programs in Early Childhood Education promulgated together with the Minister of Education and Training’s Circular No. 08/2022/TT-BGDDT dated June 06, 2022

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Pursuant to the Law on Education dated June 14, 2019;

Pursuant to the Law on Higher Education dated June 18, 2012; Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Higher Education dated November 19, 2018;

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 99/2019/ND-CP dated December 30, 2019, detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Higher Education;

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 37/2025/ND-CP dated February 26, 2025 defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training;

At the proposal of the Director of the Tertiary Education Department;

The Minister of Education and Training issues the Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on enrollment in bachelor and associate degree programs in Early Childhood Education promulgated together with the Minister of Education and Training’s Circular No. 08/2022/TT-BGDDT dated June 06, 2022.

Article 1. Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on enrollment in bachelor and associate degree programs in Early Childhood Education promulgated together with the Minister of Education and Training’s Circular No. 08/2022/TT-BGDDT dated June 06, 2022

1. To amend Clause 18, Clause 19 and add Clause 20 Article 2 as follows:

a) To amend Clause 18 as follows:

“18. School code means a nationally consistent and conventional code used to identify a training institution, a branch or a training unit under a training institution with the specific enrollment quotas.”.

b) To amend Clause 19 as follows:

“19. Admission code means a consistent and conventional code used in a training institution, a branch or a training unit under a training institution to identify a training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines with the specific enrollment quotas of a school code.”.

c) To add Clause 20 as follows:

“20. Equivalency conversion refers to the process of converting the admission thresholds and the matriculation scores between different enrollment methods, combined admission tests for a specific admission code, based on a set of rules established by the training institution, ensuring the equivalency in terms of the level of meeting the entrance requirements of training programs, academic disciplines, or groups of disciplines.”.

2. To amend and supplement Clause 3 Article 3 as follows:

“3. Training institutions shall closely coordinate under the support and supervision of the Ministry of Education and Training to ensure the consistency, synchronization and interoperability in the system; contribute to improving the enrollment quality and efficiency of each training institution and the whole system, and create positive impacts on teaching and learning in general education.”.

3. To amend and supplement Article 6 as follows:

“1. A training institution shall decide on one or several enrollment methods (entrance exam, selection-based enrollment or combination of entrance exam and selection-based enrollment), which shall apply to the whole training institution or to several training programs, academic disciplines, and groups of disciplines. A training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines may apply several methods of enrollment at the same time.

2. The training institution shall clearly specify the assessment and admission criteria, method to calculate the admission scores and determine admission conditions for each enrollment method, in which:

a) The primary criteria used for assessment and admission must be based on the requirements of background knowledge and core competencies that candidates need satisfy to follow such training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines;

b) The total of additional points, bonus points, and encouragement points (collectively referred to as additional points) for candidates with special achievements or candidates holding foreign language certificates shall not exceed 10% of the maximum score on the evaluation scale (a maximum of 3 points for a 30-point scale).

c) Every candidate has the opportunity to achieve the maximum score on the evaluation scale; but no candidate’s total score (including all types of additional points and priority points) shall exceed the maximum score on the evaluation scale.

3. With regard to the enrollment method based on academic results or exam results for each subject (average scores of high school subjects, exam scores of high school graduation subjects and other assessment results):

a) A combined admission test shall comprise at least 3 subjects suitable to the characteristics and requirements of the training program, including mathematics or literature accounting for no less than 25% of scores for admission; from the year 2026, the common subjects in each combined admission test shall contribute at least 50% to the scores for admission;

b) For foreign language certificates used for exemption from the high school graduation exam as regulated by the current High School Graduation Examination Regulations, training institutions may convert these certificates into foreign language scores to be included in the combined admission test, accounting for no more than 50% of the scores for admission;

c) In case of using the students’ academic performance at high school for admission, their academic performance in grade 12 must be used and account for no less than 25%.

4. With regard to a training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines that has several enrollment methods or combined admission tests:

a) Training institutions must establish the equivalency conversion rules for admission thresholds and matriculation scores of such enrollment methods, admission methods, combined admission tests in accordance with the unified guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training; ensuring the selection of candidates best qualified to meet the admission requirements of the training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines;

b) Separate admission codes and separate criteria for distinct admission methods or combined admission tests are not permitted, excluding the regulations on criteria of direct admission defined in Article 8 of this Regulation.

5. The training institution shall be responsible for explaining the scientific and practical bases in determining the enrollment methods, admission methods, combined admission tests, conversion of foreign language certificates into foreign language scores, and the equivalency conversion rules for admission thresholds and matriculation scores; which is based on the data of analysis, assessment and comparison of academic results of admitted students of the previous years.”.

4. To amend and supplement Point d Clause 4 Article 8 as follows:

“d) Candidates being foreigners who must meet the language proficiency standards required by the training program or academic discipline in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training;”.

5. To amend and supplement Point c Clause 2 and Clause 3 Article 11 as follows:

a) To amend and supplement Point c Clause 2 as follows:

“c) Enrollment plan and enrollment scope for each year (in which the first batch for the formal university enrollment and college enrollment in early childhood education must be consistent with the general plan promulgated by the Ministry of Education and Training), including regulations on enrollment subjects and conditions, enrollment methods, combined admission tests and enrollment quotas for training programs, academic disciplines, and groups of disciplines; the equivalency conversion rules for admission thresholds and matriculation scores of enrollment methods, combined admission tests; methods and criteria for classifying disciplines of the training institution in case of admission by groups of disciplines; registration process and procedures and other necessary information for candidates;”,

b) To amend and supplement Clause 3 as follows:

“3. Training institutions shall notify the enrollment together with the announcement of the enrollment information on their website and through other appropriate forms at least 30 days before opening the registration for the first batch of enrollment; or at least 15 days before opening the registration for the first batch of enrollment for the cases of adjustment (if any). The latest announcement time of the equivalency conversion rules is the time of announcement of the admission thresholds.”.

6. To amend and supplement Clause 4 Article 12 as follows:

“4. The training institutions organizing entrance exams shall be responsible before the law for all work before, during and after the exams, including the accountability to state and social management agencies for the quality of exam questions, exam regulations, exam organization scheme, the implementation of exam organization scheme, and the announcement of detailed scores serving as the basis for establishing the equivalency conversion rules for the high school graduation exam results.”.

7. To amend and supplement Clause 3 Article 13 as follows:

“3. The assessment scope of exam questions for entrance exams or independent exams shall strictly adhere to and not exceed the knowledge content of current high school curriculum; the assessment scope of supplementary exams is based on the requirements of talents, aptitudes or special qualities of training programs, academic disciplines, or groups of disciplines. The assessment criteria must be based on levels of ability and thinking; categorize candidates’ ability, and meet candidates’ suitability level for the training programs, academic disciplines, and groups of disciplines within the scope of enrollment.”.

8. To amend and supplement Clause 2, Clause 3 and Clause 4 Article 17 as follows:

a) To amend and supplement Clause 2 as follows:

“2. The training institution shall consider and offer direct admission for qualified candidates, announce and upload the list of candidates meeting all admission requirements (excluding the high school graduation requirement) into the system to process their aspirations together with other admission methods under the overall plan and complete it before the candidates apply for admission on the system.”.

b) To amend and supplement Clause 3 as follows:

“3. Candidates who have been admitted to a training institution under the direct admission plan shall register their admission aspirations on the system under the overall plan of the Ministry of Education and Training to select the training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines for which they have been directly admitted to at a training institution or register for other admission aspirations.”.

c) To amend and supplement Clause 4 as follows:

“4. Directly admitted candidates shall confirm their admission according to the overall plan; training institutions shall not require candidates to commit their admission or to confirm their admission earlier than the schedule of the overall plan.”.

9. To amend and supplement Clause 4 Article 19 as follows:

“4. Candidates place their aspirations in the order of priority by choosing the following options on the general enrollment support system (following the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training):

a) The order of priority of aspirations (The first one is the most wanted one);

b) Choose the training institution or enrollment unit (school code);

c) Choose the training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines (admission code).”.

10. To amend and supplement Clause 2 and Point b Clause 3 Article 20 as follows:

a) To amend and supplement Clause 2 as follows:

“2. As the time for registering aspirations on the general enrollment support system expires, the training institutions shall download the information and data from the system, including data about aspiration registration, high school academic performance, high school graduation exam results, high school graduation score, exam results from training institutions organizing entrance exams in the admission year, data about the priority policies by regions and subjects of the candidates who apply for admission, to serve their admission procedures.”.

b) To amend and supplement Point b Clause 3 as follows:

“b) For a training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines, all candidates shall be considered and selected equally depending on their admission scores and the matriculation score converted equivalently for distinct admission methods, combined admission tests, regardless of the priority order of their aspirations, unless otherwise specified at Point c of this Clause;”.

11. To amend and supplement Point c Clause 3 Article 23 as follows:

“c) Provide adequate information, advice and guidance to candidates, do not allow candidates to apply for admission to any training program, academic discipline, or group of disciplines that they are not eligible for; assume the responsibility and proactively resolve cases where candidates are transferred to or from the training institution due to errors in the admission process;”.

12. To amend and supplement Clause 4 Article 26 as follows:

“4. By December 31 of each year at the latest, training institutions must complete the update of actual enrollment data for all enrollment forms, including: candidate information; candidate admission consideration information; candidate admission results; information on enrollment disciplines; information on enrollment methods that have been announced on the Ministry of Education and Training's general enrollment support system.”.

Article 2. Replacing and repealing a number of phrases, articles and appendices of the Regulation on enrollment in bachelor and associate degree programs in Early Childhood Education promulgated together with the Minister of Education and Training’s Circular No. 08/2022/TT-BGDDT dated June 06, 2022

1. To replace a number of phrases, points, clauses, articles and appendices as follows:

a) To replace the following phrases in Article 9: The phrase “Their learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as excellent or higher” with the phrase “Their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as excellent (their learning capacity is classified as excellent or higher)” at Point a Clause 2; the phrase “The learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as excellent or higher” with the phrase “Their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as excellent (their learning capacity is classified as excellent or higher)” at Point a Clause 5; the phrase “Their learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as good or higher” with the phrase “Their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as good (their learning capacity is classified as good or higher)” at Point b Clause 2; the phrase “Their learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as good” with the phrase “Their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as good (their learning capacity is classified as good)” at Point a Clause 5; the phrase “The learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as good” with the phrase “Their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as good (their learning capacity is classified as good)” at Point b Clause 5; the phrase “their learning capacity in grade 12 is classified as average” with the phrase “their academic performance in grade 12 is evaluated as pass (their learning capacity is classified as average)” at Point b Clause 5; the phrase “with practice certificates” with the phrase “with practice licenses” in Clause 1, Clause 2, Point a Clause 5, Clause 7;

b) To replace the word “field” by the phrase “group of disciplines” in Clause 2, Clause 3 Article 13; the phrase “Enrollment schemes” by the phrase “Enrollment information” in the title of Article 11, Clause 1, Clause 2 Article 11, Clause 3 Article 12; Clause 1 Article 17, Point d Clause 3 Article 23, Clause 3 Article 26; the phrase “Joint Circular No. 37/2012/TTLT-BLDTBXH-BYT-BTC-BGDDT dated December 28, 2012 of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs; the Ministry of Health; the Ministry of Finance; and the Ministry of Education and Training, on determination of degrees of disability by the Disability Degree Determination Council by the phrase “current” in the Appendix II to the Regulation.

b) To replace the Appendix III to the Regulation.

2. To repeal a number of phrases and articles as follows:

a) To repeal the phrases as follows: “field” in Clause 1 Article 2; “From 2023” at Point d Clause 1 Article 7, Clause 4 Article 7, Clause 1 Article 26; “in the year of graduating from high school (or graduating from intermediate school)” in Clause 2 Article 8; “particularly” at Point a Clause 4 Article 8; “(priority for admission in the year of graduating from high school or graduating from intermediate school)” in Clause 5 Article 8; “early admission plans” in Clause 2 Article 16;

b) To repeal Article 18.

Article 3. Responsibility of implementation organization

The Chief of Office, the Director of the Tertiary Education Department, heads of relevant units under the Ministry of Education and Training; chairpersons of provincial and municipal-level People's Committees; Directors of provincial-level Departments of Education and Training; Directors of universities and academies; Principals of universities and junior colleges that enroll in Early Childhood Education shall be responsible for the implementation of this Circular.

Article 4. Implementation provisions

This Circular takes effect on May 05, 2025.

* All Appendices are not translated herein.