Standards of associate professor title in Vietnam 2024

Who is associate professor?

Pursuant to the Law on Education 2019, associate professor are titles of teachers teaching and conducting scientific research at institutions of higher education and meeting standards of professor/associate professor appointed by institutions of higher education.

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Standards of associate professor title in Vietnam 2024

Pursuant to Article 6 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg and Clause 2, Article 1 of Decision 25/2020/QD-TTg, the Standards of associate professor title in Vietnam are prescribed as follows:

(i) Meet the general criteria of the professor title stipulated in Article 4 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg.

(ii) Having obtained a doctor's diploma for 03 years or more from the date of signing the decision granting the diploma to the deadline for submission of the application.

(iii) At least 06 years, including the last three consecutive years of training and retraining from the university or higher level up to the deadline for submission of applications. Candidates who have not been qualified for 6 years and those who do not have enough teaching hours as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 4 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg, must have at least twice the minimum converted scientific work points contributed from scientific articles or (and) patents; utility solution; Works of art, achievements in training or competition in physical training and sports, which have been awarded national or international prizes prescribed at Point b, Clause 8 of Article 6 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg.

(iv) Announcement of scientific research results

- The applicant is the principal author who publishes at least two scientific papers or patents; utility solution; works of art, achievements in training and competitions in international physical training and sport. Candidates who do not have enough scientific works defined at this point must have at least 01 of the above-mentioned works and 01 book of training books published by one of the prestigious publishing houses in the world or with few 01 of the works mentioned above and 01 book of monographs published by a prestigious publishing house.

- From January 1, 2020: Candidate is the principal author who publishes at least 03 scientific papers or patents; utility solution; works of art, achievements in training and competitions in international physical training and sport. Candidates who do not have enough scientific works defined at this point must have at least 02 of the above-said works and 01 training book chapter published by one of the prestigious publishing houses in the world or with few 02 of the works mentioned above and 01 book of monographs published by a prestigious publishing house.

(v) Assume the prime responsibility for implementing at least two grassroots-level scientific and technological tasks or one ministerial-level scientific and technological task which has been accepted by the Ministry. Candidates failing to fulfill the scientific and technological tasks prescribed in this Clause shall be replaced by one scientific paper or one of the works: patent for invention; utility solution; works of art, achievements in training and competitions in international physical training and sport.

(vi) Instruct at least 02 trainees who are awarded master's degree or master's or secondary level of at least 01 PhD student. For health sciences, guiding 01 trainees successfully defending a dissertation or resident doctor shall be counted as guiding one trainee to obtain a master's degree; Candidates who fail to provide sufficient guidance on traineeships or doctoral students specified in this Clause shall be replaced by the converted scientific works. Guiding 01 master's degree student to be replaced with one of the works: Scientific paper; patent; utility solution; books for training; works of art, achievements in training and competitions in international physical training and sport.

(vii) Scientific articles specified in Clauses 4, 5 and 6, Article 6 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg are scientific articles published in reputable international scientific journals.

For majors in the field of Military Science and Security Science related to state secrets in the field of defense and security, scientific articles published in prestigious international scientific journals are replaced by alternative articles. The total score of alternative articles for each scientific article published in a reputable international scientific journal must be 1.5 points or more. and the entire score of the articles replacing scientific articles published in reputable international scientific journals specified in Clauses 4, 5 and 6, Article 6 of Decision 37/2018/QD-TTg is not included in the total minimum converted scientific work points.

Scientific articles and alternative articles are counted from the time after the candidate successfully defends the doctoral thesis.

Mai Thanh Loi

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