Vietnam: How is the handling of year-based academic performance of university students?

How is the handling of year-based academic performance of university students?

According to Article 12 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, the handling of year-based academic performance of university students if as follows:

- At the end of each academic year, students will be regarded as having made satisfactory study progress and permitted to advance to the next year under both of the following conditions:

+ The academic year average grade is at least 1,0 for the first year, at least 1,2 for the second year and at least 1,4 for the third year onwards;

+ The number of failed credits since the beginning of the course is no more than 16.

- Students will be forced to leave school in any of the following cases:

+ The academic year average grade is under 0,8;

+ GPA is under 1,2 after 2 years of study, under 1,4 after 3 years of study and under 1,6 after 4 or more years of study;

+ Study duration exceeds the amount of time mentioned in Clause 5 Article 2 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT.

- Students besides those mentioned in Clauses 1 and 2 Article 12 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT may attend the same class as the later cohort to improve their academic performance.

- Training institution regulations shall provide for the following matters:

+ Regulations on application of some academic warning conditions similar to regulations applicable to the credit-based system mentioned in Clause 1 Article 12 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT;

+ Procedures for academic warning (if any) and forced leave from school; and announcement of such measures to students;

+ Retention of accumulated study results in case of forced leave from school.

How is the handling of year-based academic performance of university students? (Image from the Internet)

How is the handling of credit-based academic performance?

According to Article 11 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT, the handling of credit-based academic performance is as follows:

- At the end of each main semester, students will receive an academic warning in any of the following cases:

+ Total number of failed credits in the semester exceeds more than half of the number registered for the semester or total number of failed credits from the beginning of the course is more than 24;

+ Semester average grade is under 0,8 for the first semester of the course or under 1,0 for following semesters;

+ GPA is under 1,2 for first-year students, under 1,4 for second-year students, under 1,6 for third-year students or under 1,8 for the following years.

- Students will be forced to leave school in any of the following cases:

+ Number of academic warnings or level of academic warning received exceeds the permitted amount/ level according to regulations of the training institution;

+ Study duration exceeds the amount of time mentioned in Clause 5 Article 2 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT.

* Training institution regulations shall provide for the following matters:

- Application of some conditions for academic warning and permitted number of academic warnings or academic warning level, which shall allow for no more than 2 consecutive warnings;

- Procedures for academic warning and forced leave from school; and announcement of such measures to students;

- Retention of accumulated study results in case of forced leave from school.

How are regulations on graduation recognition and degree awarding?

According to Article 14 of the Regulation on undergraduate education issued with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT, regulations on graduation recognition and degree awarding are as follows:

- Conditions for graduation consideration and recognition:

+ The student has accumulated sufficient units of study and credits and completed other compulsory contents required by the training program and achieved the expected learning outcomes of the training program;

+ The student has average GPA or higher for the whole course;

+ At the time of graduation consideration, the student is not facing a criminal prosecution or suspended from study.

- Principals shall issue graduation recognition decisions and award degrees to students eligible for graduation within 03 months starting from the time where the students become eligible and have fulfilled all obligations with their training institutions.

- Degree classification shall be determined based on GPA of the whole course according to regulations in Clause 5 Article 10 of this Regulation, in which, the degree classification of students with excellent and very good GPAs will be lowered by half in any of the following cases:

+ Retaken units of study exceed more than 5% of total credits required for the whole program;

+ The student received a warning or a more severe penalty when they attended the program.

- For students whose study time has exceeded the maximum permitted limit, if they are not yet eligible for graduation due to incomplete national defense - security or physical education unit of study or failure to meet foreign language or information technology standard, within 03 years after they complete their study, they may fulfill the missing requirements and apply for graduation.

- Students not graduating may be awarded certificates of units of study accumulated throughout the training program of the training institution.

* Training institution regulations shall provide for the following matters:

+ Procedures for graduation consideration and recognition, graduation consideration timeline in a year;

+ Retention and recognition of accumulated study results of students not graduating;

+ Permission for students whose full-time study time have expired to transfer to the corresponding part-time or remote study (if any) provided by the training institution if they have not exceeded the permitted study time limit for the latter mode of study according to regulations