In Vietnam, what is credit-based training? Is credit-based training a compulsory method for undergraduate education in Vietnam?

In Vietnam, what is credit-based training?

Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 3 of the regulation on undergraduate education issued together with the Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT stipulating as follows: 

Credit-based training:

- Credit-based training is a method for training organization where units of study are organized into classes as appropriate to the teaching plan of the training institution, allowing students to accumulate credits of each unit of study and take the training program following their individual learning plans;

- Students failing a mandatory unit of study shall retake that unit of study or take an equivalent unit of study according to regulations of the training program or a substituting unit of study if the unit of study that they fail is no longer taught;

- Students failing an elective unit of study shall retake that unit of study or take another elective unit of study according to regulations of the training program.

Is credit-based training a compulsory method for undergraduate education in Vietnam? 

Pursuant to Clause 3, Article 3 of the regulation on undergraduate education issued together with the Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT stipulating as follows: 

Training institutions shall select and adopt methods for training organization as follows:

- Adopt credit-based training for all cohorts and modes of study in a consistent manner;

- Adopt year-based training for all cohorts and modes of study in a consistent manner;

- Adopt credit-based training for some cohorts or one mode of study; and adopt year-based training for the other cohorts or mode of study.

As regulations above, it is not compulsory for all training institutions to adopt credit-based training.

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