Educational experts have criticised the draft Tertiary Education Law for being virtually indistinguishable from existing regulations.
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Professor Nguyen Mau Banh, vice chairman of the Vietnam Association for Former Teachers, said the draft law was incomplete and failed to address the needs of the university admissions\' system.
Professor Le Du Phong, from the National Economics University, said: "I am afraid that no improvement would be made if the draft came into effect. It is too general and bears little relation to reality."
Meanwhile, Tran Thi Tam Dan, former chairwoman of the National Assembly\'s Committee for Culture, Education and the Youth, said article 11 of the draft was not comprehensive enough.
Former deputy prime minister Tran Phuong said the university education law should meet international standards.
He added that it was necessary to differentiate between national universities and regional, private and non-profit universities and academies.
Nguyen Cong Tan, former deputy prime minister, said it was important the law boosted training quality.
Tan, who represents a private university, said the law should encourage educational establishments to be more autonomous.
"The situation has created an ask-and-give mechanism and paved a way for negatives to arise," he said.
Professor Phong said the draft regulation had failed to address an educational establishment\'s right to self-control. He also said they should be permitted to decide for themselves how many students they wished to enrol each year.
He added that universities should be permitted to set their own training programmes.
Phuong also suggested the draft law should set out how universities should be able to govern themselves.
The Tertiary Education Law must help to raise training standards in the country, participants said.
The draft law has nine chapters and 50 articles.
