The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued instructions to tighten control over the training and issuing of certificates to foreign language learners.
The tighter control would be applied to the printing, issuance and use of foreign language certificates throughout the education system.
Vietnam to tighten control over foreign language certification
As a result, the ministry is asking for collaboration with a prestigious foreign accreditation organisation to apply advanced solutions in testing and competence assessment for both learners and teachers.
The design of management systems, inspections and independent supervision over operations of educational organisations would be also allowed.
In recent years, foreign language education has been somewhat of a lightening rod, drawing strong but varying opinions, especially after the ministry decided to make learning a foreign language compulsory in high schools beginning 2015.
According to the regulation, students who already have standard foreign language certification would be exempt from the subject on the graduation exam.
The ministry is scrutinising the foreign language certification process nationwide.
