Vietnam: When shall an education accreditation organization have its operation suspended?

According to Article 10 of the Regulations on conditions for the foundation and dissolution, missions and rights of the education accreditation organization promulgated together with Circular No. 61/2012/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, an education accreditation organization shall have its operation suspended in one of following cases:

- It commits a fraud in pursuit of having the operating license for the education accreditation issued;

- The issued license for education accreditation is claimed to be ultra vires as prescribed at point c Clause 2 in Article 6 of this document;

- It fails to fulfill one of the conditions stipulated at point b and c of Clause 3 in Article 5 of this document during the operation process.

- It fails to launch the operation of education accreditation within 12 months from the day receiving the license for education accreditation;

- It conducts the education accreditation subjectively, dishonestly and accepts false result;

- Other cases in compliance with regulations of the law.

The order, procedure for suspending the operation of the education accreditation organization are prescribed as follows:

- When noticing that the education accreditation organization violates one of cases regulated at Clause 1 in this Article, the Ministry of Education and Training shall make the suspending application in which the reason for suspending the operation of education accreditation is clearly stated and inform the education accreditation organization.

- The Minister of Education and Training shall consider and decide to suspend the operation of the education accreditation within 20 working days from the day informing the education accreditation organization that its violations have been caught.

The suspending reason and time must be clearly specified in the decision on the suspension of the education accreditation operation. The decision on the suspension of the education accreditation operation must be made publicly available on the website of the Ministry of Education and Training and other public media.

Note: When the suspending time is expired, if causes for the suspension are reasoned out, the Minister of Education and Training shall permit the education accreditation organization to return to its business.

View more provisions at Circular No. 61/2012/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from February 15, 2013.

Le Vy

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