According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry has just issued Circular 11/2023/TT-BGDDT (Circular 11) on abolishing Circular 23/2014/TT-BGDDT dated July 18, 2014 (Circular 23) regulating high-quality university-level training.

Courses enrolled before December 1, 2023 (the effective date of Circular 11) will continue to organize training until the end of the course according to the regulations in Circular 23.

The abolition of Circular No. 23/2014/TT-BGDDT is necessary and consistent with the provisions of the Law on Higher Education 2018. Specifically as follows:

Clause 6, Article 65 of the 2012 Law on Higher Education stipulates: “The Minister of Education and Training shall prescribe criteria for determining high-quality training programs; and shall be responsible for managing and supervising tuition fees commensurate with training quality.”

However, according to the provisions of the Law on Higher Education 2018, the concept of high-quality training programs no longer exists. The development of different types of training programs is under the autonomy of higher education institutions, ensuring compliance with regulations on training program standards for higher education levels stipulated in Circular No. 17/2021/TT-BGDDT dated June 22, 2021 of the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Ministry of Education and Training encourages higher education institutions to build and develop training programs with higher input and output standards than those prescribed by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Higher education institutions are responsible for publicly disclosing and transparently disclosing information about the training programs they offer, committing to learners about the quality output of these training programs, and at the same time being accountable to stakeholders as well as the whole society.

Thus, the abolition of Circular 23 does not mean that higher education institutions no longer have or are not allowed to implement "high-quality programs".

This also does not affect the admission and training of different training programs of higher education institutions.

Higher education institutions exercise autonomy in building and developing training programs, but regardless of their name, they must ensure compliance with regulations on training program standards, quality assurance from input, teaching and learning conditions, training process to output, as well as other regulations related to training.

The development and implementation of "high-quality programs" (with higher requirements on output standards, quality assurance conditions, etc.) are under the autonomy of higher education institutions.

Regarding tuition fees, higher education institutions shall determine and implement them according to Government regulations in Decree No. 81/2021/ND-CP dated August 27, 2021.