Quality assessment standards for academic programs at all levels of higher education

On February 17, 2025, the Minister of Education and Training issued Circular 04/2025/TT-BGDĐT on quality accreditation of academic programs at all levels of higher education.

Circular 04/2025/TT-BGDĐT regulates quality accreditation of academic programs at all levels of higher education, including the set of standards for assessing academic program quality, accreditation procedures, and the academic program quality accreditation cycle.

Under the Circular, academic program quality assessment standards are requirements concerning content and conditions that academic programs must meet to be recognized as meeting educational quality standards. Each standard comprises multiple criteria, including at least one prerequisite criterion.

The set of quality assessment standards for academic programs at all levels of higher education will include the following eight standards:

Standard 1: Academic program objectives and learning outcomes

Standard 2: Academic program structure and content

Standard 3: Teaching and learning activities

Standard 4: Assessment of academic performance

Standard 5: Lecturers and researchers

Standard 6: Support services for learners

Standard 7: Infrastructure, facilities, and equipment

Standard 8: Outputs and outcomes

Circular 04/2025/TT-BGDĐT applies to:

– Higher education institutions and schools under state agencies, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and the people’s armed forces tasked with providing education at higher education levels; academies and institutes established by the Prime Minister under the Law on Science and Technology and authorized to provide doctoral education (hereinafter referred to as education providers);

– Domestic education quality accreditation organizations established, permitted to be established, and authorized to operate by decision of the Minister of Education and Training (hereinafter referred to as domestic education quality accreditation organizations);

– Other organizations and individuals involved in higher education quality accreditation activities.

See Circular 04/2025/TT-BGDĐT, effective April 4, 2025, for details.

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