What are the requirements for the higher education teaching curriculum in Vietnam?

What is the teaching curriculum in higher education in Vietnam?

According to Clause 2, Article 2 of Circular 35/2021/TT-BGDDT, the teaching curriculum in higher education is the primary material for teaching, learning, and research of a course. It is organized, compiled, selected, assessed, approved, and used by the training institution following the regulations of Circular 35/2021/TT-BGDDT and related legal provisions.

What are the requirements for the higher education teaching curriculum in Vietnam?

According to Article 4 of Circular 35/2021/TT-BGDDT, the requirements for the teaching curriculum in higher education are as follows:

- The curriculum is the primary material used by a training institution for lecturers and students in teaching, learning, and researching a course. The curriculum must be published in the form of a book and the name given to the curriculum must not lead to misunderstandings as a common curriculum used across multiple training institutions.

- The curriculum must concretize the requirements for knowledge content, skills, and attitudes stipulated in each course of the training program, training discipline, and training level. It must meet the demands of innovative teaching methods and assessment of learning outcomes to ensure the quality of training.

- The content of the curriculum must align with the objectives and content of the training program, ensuring standards of knowledge and skills to meet the course’s learning outcomes.

- The knowledge in the curriculum must be presented in a scientific and logical manner, balancing theory and practice; it should be appropriate to reality and updated with new knowledge of science, technology, economic development, and social progress that have been verified and recognized.

- The content cited in reference materials for compiling the curriculum must have clear origins and annotations. The cited content included in the curriculum must be appropriate and meet the objectives of the curriculum, ensuring compliance with relevant legal provisions.

- The language used to compile the curriculum can be Vietnamese or a foreign language and must be consistent with the teaching language of the course.

- The training institution sets forth the content, structure, format, and specific requirements for its curriculum, ensuring synchronization, uniformity, and compliance with relevant legal provisions.

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What are the regulations on the use of curriculum and materials for teaching in universities in Vietnam?

According to Article 7 of Circular 35/2021/TT-BGDDT, the regulations on the use of curriculum and materials for teaching in universities are as follows:

- For published curricula, training institutions may provide, distribute, gift, lease, exchange, lend, use as common materials, and supply to open educational resources to bring the publication to users while ensuring compliance with relevant legal provisions.

- The approved curriculum of the training institution must be used as the primary material for lecturers and students in teaching, learning, and researching the course, where one curriculum may be used for multiple courses with relevant content or courses with similar content.

- For undergraduate education, the training institution must ensure that each course has at least one curriculum serving as the primary material for lecturers and students in teaching, learning, and researching the course, where the curriculum content must fulfill at least 70% of the course's knowledge content.

- For master's degree education, the training institution must ensure there is a curriculum serving as the primary material for lecturers and students in teaching and learning for each course in the training program. If a course does not yet have a curriculum, the training institution must ensure alternative teaching materials, with the curriculum or alternative teaching materials for each course meeting at least 70% of the course's knowledge content.

- For doctoral education, the training institution must ensure there is a curriculum or materials for teaching, learning, and researching (in place of the curriculum) for lecturers and students for each content, topic of the training program, including specialized materials and published scientific works related to the teaching and learning content and topics of lecturers and students. These must meet the training program’s requirements and align with the training program’s goals and content, ensuring knowledge and skill standards, and meeting the training program's learning outcomes.

- The curriculum used in the training institution must be compiled, selected, assessed, and approved following the regulations of Circular 35/2021/TT-BGDDT and relevant legal provisions.

Teaching, learning, and research materials (in place of the curriculum) for lecturers and students used in the training institution must be approved following the institution's regulations, ensuring compliance with relevant legal provisions.

- Based on the goals, teaching content, and learning outcomes of the training program or training discipline, the training institution publishes the curricula and materials for teaching, learning, and researching for each content, topic, and course in the training program, prioritized in order of use.

- The training institution specifically defines the rights and responsibilities of its units and organizations, lecturers, and students in using the curriculum and materials for teaching each content, topic, and course of the training program, training discipline, and training level.