Draft Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 10/2017/TT-BLDTBXH dated March 13, 2017, of the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam stipulating the form of intermediate and college graduation diplomas; printing, managing, issuing, revoking, and canceling intermediate and college graduation diplomas is currently open for public comments.
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This draft has amended and supplemented the regulations on the diploma templates and the content to be written on the diplomas of intermediate and college levels as previously stipulated in Circular 10/2017/TT-BLDTBXH as follows:
- Diplomas shall be printed in Vietnamese and English (translated in accordance with the Vietnamese content).
- The content to be written on the diplomas includes:
+ Titles:
THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
+ The position of the head of the institution issuing the diploma;
+ The name of the institution issuing the diploma;
+ The name of the diploma according to each training level (intermediate diploma, college diploma);
+ Discipline, vocational training;
+ Full name of the diploma recipient;
+ Date of birth of the diploma recipient;
+ Graduation classification;
+ Place of issue, date of issue of the diploma;
+ Title, signature, full name of the authorized person to issue the diploma and the seal as prescribed;
+ Identification number, original record number of the diploma;
+ For high-quality programs, the phrase "high-quality program" shall be added;
+ Other content on the diploma: institutions may add other content on the diploma in accordance with the law.
In addition, attached to this Draft are Appendix 1, Appendix 2, and Appendix 3 specifying the templates of intermediate and college diplomas that institutions can refer to. To be specific:
Details on how to write content on intermediate and college diplomas are as follows:
(1) The title of the head of the institution issuing the diploma in Vietnamese; uppercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(2) The name of the institution issuing the diploma in Vietnamese; uppercase letters, size 13, upright, bold.
(3) The name of the discipline or vocational training that the student studied according to the Certificate of Registration of Vocational Education Activities of the institution issued according to the Level IV training discipline code, in Vietnamese; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(4) The full name of the diploma recipient according to the birth certificate; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(5) Write "Nam" or "Nữ" according to the birth certificate in Vietnamese; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(6) Date of birth according to the birth certificate. If the date of birth is from the 1st to the 9th, and the month of birth is January or February, a zero shall be added in front; the year of birth shall be written with four full digits (Example: 07/02/1981); lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(7) Graduation classification: Excellent, Very good, Good, Average good, or Ordinary; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(8) The place of issue: province or centrally-run city where the institution issuing the diploma is headquartered; lowercase letters, size 14, italic.
(9) Date of issue of the diploma; lowercase letters, size 14, italic.
(10) The title of the head of the institution issuing the diploma in Vietnamese, uppercase letters, size 14, upright, bold; the head of the institution issuing the diploma signs, writes full name, and seals as prescribed.
(11) For the institution issuing the diploma to fill in the template when issuing it.
(12) For the institution issuing the diploma to record in the original record book when issuing the diploma.
(13) The title of the head of the institution issuing the diploma in English; uppercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(14) The name of the institution issuing the diploma in English; uppercase letters, size 13, upright, bold.
(15) The name of the discipline or vocational training that the student studied according to the Certificate of Registration of Vocational Education Activities of the institution issued according to the Level IV training discipline code in English; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(16) The full name recorded as at point (4) in Vietnamese but without diacritics. In front of the name, if male, write “Mr”, if female, write “Ms”; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(17) Write the day and year in numbers, write the month in English. (Example: Vietnamese writes "07/10/2018" then English writes "07 October 2018"); lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(18) Graduation classification: Excellent written as “Excellent”, Very good written as “Very good”, Good written as “Good”, Average good written as “Average good”, Ordinary written as “Ordinary”; lowercase letters, size 14, upright, bold.
(19) The place of issue: province or centrally-run city where the institution is headquartered in English (Example: Vietnamese writes "Ha Noi” then English writes "Hanoi”); lowercase letters, size 14, italic.
(20) Write the day and year in numbers, write the month in English. (Example: Vietnamese writes "ngay 07/10/2018" then English writes "07 October 2018"); lowercase letters, size 14, italic.
(21) The embossed seal of the institution.
(22) Depending on the discipline or vocational training studied, write the phrase “PRACTICAL BACHELOR” or “PRACTICAL ENGINEER” for degrees with titles.
Note:
- If the diploma recipient is a foreigner, the information at points (4), (5), (6), (16), (17) is based on the passport.
- If the contents on the diploma are written by hand, the institution issuing the diploma adjusts the font size to fit, ensuring conformity and aesthetics of the contents.
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Nguyen Trinh
