Standards of professional competence of main lecturers in universities in Vietnam

According to the Circular No. 40/2020/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, standards of professional competence of main lecturers (class II) in public higher education institutions are specified as follows:

- Having a solid knowledge of the subjects assigned to teach and basic knowledge of a number of related subjects in the assigned training major;

- Understand and effectively implement the objectives, plans, contents and programs of assigned subjects; timely grasp practical requirements for training majors;

- Assume the prime responsibility for performing at least 01 (one) science and technology task at grassroots or higher level which has been accepted for acceptance with satisfactory results or higher;

- Preside over or participate in the compilation of at least 01 (one) training book, which is appraised, accepted by the scientific council (established by the head of the higher education institution or approved by a competent authority), and put into use in training and retraining from university level or higher suitable to the majors of teaching or training of the lecturers and has the international standard code ISBN;

- Authors of at least 03 (three) scientific articles that are scientific research works of lecturers that have been published in scientific journals with international standard code ISSN;

- Having the ability to apply information technology and use foreign languages in performing the duties of the main lecturer title (class II);

- Public employees participating in the examination or consideration for promotion from the professional title of lecturer (class III), code V.07.01.03 to the professional title of main lecturer (class II), code V.07.01.02 must have the time holding the professional title of lecturer (class III), code V.07.01.03 or equivalent for at least full 09 (nine) years for holders of master's degrees, full 06 (six) years for holders of doctoral degrees; in which, there is at least 01 year (full 12 months) holding the professional title of lecturer (class III), code V.07.01.03 by the deadline for submitting the application for exam registration or consideration for promotion.

View more details at the Circular No. 40/2020/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from December 12, 2020.

Ty Na

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