11 individuals eligible for direct admission for undergraduate programs in early childhood education in Vietnam in 2020

Specifically, schools shall elaborate direct admission quota and criteria, academic disciplines accepting direct admissions and training orientations for direct admission in their admission schemes. This Regulation specifies individuals eligible for direct admission, including:

1. Labor Heroes, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces and national model soldiers having graduated from high school;

2. For persons accepted into schools but drafted into conscription service or rallied voluntary youth service in the same year, if they are discharged, not yet enrolled in any full-time course, and recommended by their general voluntary youth teams or regiments or a higher level, satisfy health requirements and possess all required documents, they may be admitted to the schools for which they have successfully applied;

3. For participants in national team selection for international Olympic competitions and participants in national teams for international science - technology competitions, if they have graduated from high school, they may be directly admitted to academic disciplines corresponding to their participating subjects or topics of their entries;

4. High school graduates who are national team members and confirmed to have participated in official international competitions, namely world championships, world cups, Olympic Games, Asian Games (ASIAD), Asian championships, Asian cups, South East Asian championships, SEA Games and South East Asian cups, by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism may be directly admitted to sports universities or sports studies in schools according to the regulations of each school;

5. High school graduates or graduates of secondary schools for students gifted in the arts who won an official prize in international singing, dancing, music or art competitions recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and apply for art schools may be directly admitted to programs equivalent to undergraduate programs according to each school’s regulations;

6. First, second and third prize winners of national competition for gifted students; and first, second and third prize winners of national science - technology competitions having graduated from high school may be directly admitted to university programs corresponding to the subjects of the competitions in which they participated or topics of their entries to such competitions;

7. School principals shall consider admission of applicants with very severe disabilities confirmed by competent authorities in writing as per regulations based on the high school study result (school report book) and health conditions of each applicant and requirements of the academic discipline;

8. For foreign applicants who wish to study at Vietnamese universities and colleges, school principals shall consider admission of these applicants based on each applicant’s high school study result (transcript) and result of the Vietnamese language proficiency test per regulations in Article 6 of Circular No. 30/2018/TT-BGDĐT;

9. Applicants who have permanently resided in poor districts for at least 3 years and have completed 3 years of high school in schools located in poor districts (students of boarding ethnic minority general education schools granted priorities based on their permanent residence) by the date on which their applications for non-exam admission are submitted per regulations in Resolution No. 30a/2008/NQ-CP of Vietnam’s Government and Decision No. 275/QD-TTg dated March 07, 2018; applicants from ethnic minorities with very small populations per existing regulations of the Government and applicants from 20 poor border and island districts of the Mekong Delta;

10. Holders of very good intermediate professional education diplomas in pedagogy or higher; and holders of good intermediate professional education diplomas in pedagogy with at least 02 years of experience in their trained professions or specializations who meet the requirements stated in Article 5 of this Regulation may be directly admitted to early childhood education college degree programs;

11. For first, second and third prize winners of WorldSkills ASEAN and international competitions, if they possess a high school diploma or intermediate professional education diploma, and have completed the high school course load and sat the exam for a certificate of such completion according to regulations of the Education Law and guidelines thereof, they may be directly admitted to a program corresponding to the skill for which they won their prize.

View more details at Circular No. 09/2020/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from June 22, 2020.

Le Hai

>> CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN VIETNAMESE