The facility is to make assessment and endorsement of educationinstitutes and programmes meeting quality standards, and offersuggestions on improving the post-verification quality.
The Ministry of Education and Training has granted certificates to 55verifiers trained at home and abroad, including 12 from the city-basedVNU, said Nguyen Hoi Nghia, deputy director of the university.
Pham Xuan Thanh, deputy head of the ministry’s General Department forEducational Testing and Accreditation, praised the university’s effortsto build a competent verifying staff that contributes to the fulfilmentof the nationwide educational quality assessments.
He cited the fact that more than 70 percent of tertiary and intermediateinstitutes have special groups and annual plans on ensuring educationalquality. Up to 92 percent of universities and colleges completedself-assessment reports and readied to register quality standards.
A similar centre is operating at the Hanoi-based Vietnam National University .
From 2015 and onward, the Ministry of Education and Training willallow organisations and individuals to establish independent assessmentgroups in addition to perfecting legal documents on the field.-VNA