Vietnam’s regulation on required capacity of graduates at doctorate level

According to Article 5 of the Regulation on minimum amount of knowledge, required capacity of graduates at each training level of higher education and procedures for establishment, appraisal and issuance of training program for university level, master’s level and doctorate level enclosed with Circular No. 07/2015/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, apart from general requirements for professional ethics, the compliance with regulations on occupational safety, the political sophistication level and national security knowledge according to current regulations and have basic skills information technology according to current regulations on Standard of skills in using information technology issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications, graduates at doctorate level of higher education shall satisfy the following required capacity: 

Knowledge: Have a knowledge system that is intensive and advanced concerning their speciality; have a creative and independent thinking; have ability to control key values in learning; have ability to develop the principles and theory concerning their speciality; have collective knowledge in terms of legislation, management and environmental protection; have advanced thinking in organization of professional work and researching to deal with complicated issues;

Skills:

- Have necessary skill to discover and analyze complicated issues and offer creative solutions to deal with the problems; have ability to create new professional knowledge; have ability to build up a national and international cooperative network concerning their speciality; have synthesizing ability and leadership to deal with issues with regional and international scale;

- Have foreign language skills to understand the complicated reports about both concrete and abstract problems, including the academic exchange in terms of their speciality. Have ability to communicate and exchange academies fluently by foreign language with native speakers. Have ability to write scientific reports and professional reports; have ability to explain their opinions about an issue and analyze their viewpoint about the choice;

Autonomy and responsibility: Have ability to discover and deal with problems themselves, find out principles and rules during business dealings and offer valuable ideas and ability to assess the value of the ideas; have ability to adapt the international integration environment; have the leadership and influence to the strategic orientation of the collectives; have ability to offer the idea of the top expert with reliable foundation about science and reality; have ability to give decision about plans on operation and management of the research and development of new knowledge, new ideas and new procedures.

View more details at Circular No. 07/2015/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from June 01, 2016.

Le Vy

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