Tiếng Việt| THE GOVERNMENT | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM |
| No: 20/2001/ND-CP | Hanoi, May 17, 2001 |
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Education Law of December 2, 1998;
At the proposals of the Minister-Director of the Governments Organization- Personnel Commission, the Minister of Education and the chairman of the State Council for Academic Titles,
DECREES:
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1. Teachers who are included in the lecturing staff of universities of various kinds (hereinafter called universities for short);
2. Teachers who are not included in the lecturing staff of the universities but participating in the tertiary and post-graduate training under decisions to perform the task of lecturing or under guest-lecturing contracts, which are signed by the heads of competent bodies or organizations;
3. Foreign teachers who are lecturing at tertiary and post-graduate education establishments in Vietnam.
Article 4.- Subjects to be stripped of the title of professor or associate professor:
1. Persons who have been conferred the title of professor or associate professor but detected and determined as failing to satisfy the conditions, criteria prescribed at the time of conferment;
2. Persons who have been conferred the title of professor or associate professor but have committed crimes and sentenced to imprisonment by court and have not enjoyed the suspended sentence as from the date the judgments take legal effect.
Article 6.- Subjects to be removed from the rank of professor or associate professor:
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2. Persons who have been stripped of the title of professor or associate professor.
Article 8.- Recognition of title and promotion to the rank of professor or associate professor:
1. The consideration and recognition of the professor and associate professor titles is made annually on the basis of the set criteria;
2. The promotion to the ranks of professor and associate professor shall be based on the work demands, working positions, structure of civil servant titles and payroll norms.
CRITERIA OF PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TITLES
1. Fully satisfying the teachers criteria defined in Clause 2, Article 61 of the Education Law, fulfilling all teachers tasks prescribed in Article 63 of the Education Law, being honest, having the spirit of cooperation with colleagues and being objective in educational and training work as well as in scientific and technological research;
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3. Having acquired enough projects as prescribed by the State Council for Professor Title, of which at least 25% have been carried out in the last three years before the time of submission of dossiers of registration for consideration of the conferment of the titles of professor or associate professor;
4. Having scientific reports, summing up the results of personal work of training as well as scientific and technological research compatible with the specialties registered for consideration of the professor or associate professor title;
5. Having enough votes of credit of the Councils for Professor Title of different levels as provided for in Clause 8, Article 17 of this Decree.
1. Having been engaged in tertiary or post-graduate training for at least 6 years, and having been engaged in tertiary or post-graduate training for the last three years before the time of submitting dossiers of registration for consideration of the associate professor title;
2. Having been the main supervisor for at least one successful master-degree dissertation;
3. Having published enough scientific articles according to the regulations of the State Council for Professor Title;
4. Having been in charge of scientific research subjects of the university level or participated in scientific researches of the ministerial level or higher. The pre-acceptance test results must be at least satisfactory;
5. Being fluent in one foreign language in service of specialty field.
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1. Having obtained the title of associate professor for full 3 years or more and having been engaged in tertiary or post-graduate training; for the last 3 years before the time of submitting the dossiers for consideration of the professor title;
2. Having supervised at least 2 research students, one of whom has successfully defended his/her doctorate thesis;
3. Having compiled teaching materials, books in service of tertiary or post-graduate training compatible with the specialties registered for consideration of the title of professor or associate professor, which have been published and for which the copyright deposit has been paid;
4. Having published enough scientific writings according to the regulations of the State Council for Professor Title;
5. Having been in charge of scientific research subjects of the ministerial level or higher. The pre-acceptance test results must be at least satisfactory;
6. Being fluent in one of the five foreign languages: English, Russian, French, Chinese, German.
Article 12.- Exceptional consideration
1. Persons who lack one of the criteria and conditions prescribed in Articles 9, 10 and 11 of this Decree for special objective reasons may be exceptionally considered;
2. The specific exceptional cases and the procedures for supplementing the dossiers shall be stipulated by the chairman of the State Council for Professor Title;
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THE STATE COUNCIL FOR PROFESSOR TITLE
Article 14.- Organization of the State Council for Professor Title:
1. The members of the State Council for Professor Title shall be appointed by the Prime Minister, including the chairman, a vice-chairman, the general secretary and members of the Council;
2. The general secretary and members of the Council must hold the professor title. The general secretary of the State Council for Professor Title shall work as a full-time civil servant. Other members of the Council shall work on a part-time basis;
3. The standing members of the State Council for Professor Title shall be the chairman, the vice-chairman and the general secretary. They are responsible for settling the Councils affairs in the interval between two plenary sessions of the Council;
4. The secretariat and Office of the Council shall be its assisting bodies. The total staff of the Councils Office and secretariat shall include 10 persons at most and be placed under the direct management of the general secretary of the Council;
5. The branch, inter-branch and grassroots Councils for Professor Title shall assist the State Council for Professor Title in performing the tasks defined in Article 13 of this Decree. The State Council for Professor Title shall issue decisions on the establishment of these Councils and prescribe their organizational structure and operation.
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PROCEDURES FOR CONFERMENT AND DEPRIVATION OF THE PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE-PROFESSOR TITLES
1. Registration procedures
Persons who register for consideration and recognition of the title of professor or associate professor must compile dossiers according to form set by the State Council for Professor Title and send such dossiers to the grassroots-level Councils for Professor Title at the schools or institutes (called collectively the educational establishments) where they work.
Where the educational establishments have no conditions to set up the grassroots Councils for Professor Title, the persons registering for consideration and recognition of the title of professor or associate professor must file their application together with the dossiers to the heads of their direct managing units. After examining the dossiers, such unit heads shall make the lists of candidates and send them together with the dossiers to the heads of the competent superior bodies with assigned management responsibility (hereinafter referred collectively to as the ministerial-level agencies). The heads of the ministerial-level agencies shall consider and make the lists of candidates and send them together with the personal files to the State Council for Professor Title, which shall recommend and transfer the dossiers to appropriate grassroots Councils for Professor Title for considering the request for recognition as provided for in Clause 2 of this Article;
2. The grassroots Councils for Professor Title shall consider and evaluate the dossiers, cast secret ballots for registrants one by one;
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4. The heads of the ministerial-level agencies shall certify the lists, give their written opinions on the results of considering the recognition of the professor and associate professor titles of the universities and their attached institutes and transfer all the dossiers to the State Council for Professor Title;
5. The secretariat of the State Council for Professor Title shall have to classify the dossiers according to registered branches and hand them to the branch, inter-branch Councils for Professor Title.
6. The branch, inter-branch Councils for Professor Title shall make the evaluation based on the criteria, cast secret ballots for each case and report the results of the consideration to the State Council for Professor Title;
7. The chairman of the State Council for Professor Title shall verify the results of consideration of the titles of professors and associate professor by the branch or inter-branch Councils for Professor Title, issue decisions to recognize the titles of professor and associate professor after the State Council for Professor Title approves them through secret ballots as provided for in Clause 8 of this Article;
8. The decisions of the Professor Title Councils at all levels shall be effective only when they are voted for by at least 3/4 of the Council members participating in the open voting or secret ballots according to the following proportions:
a) For the grassroots Professor Title Councils, there must be more than 2/3 of the members present at the meetings voting for them;
b) For branch, inter-branch Professor Title Councils, there must be over 3/4 of the members present at the meeting voting for them;
c) For the State Council for Professor Title, there must be over 1/2 of the present members voting for them.
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2. In case of necessity, the Standing Body of the State Council for Professor Title may request the branch, inter-branch Professor Title Councils to reconsider the cases of necessary consideration for deprivation before submitting them to the State Council for Professor Title;
3. The State Council for Professor Title shall evaluate such cases and cast secret ballots for each case of necessary consideration for deprivation;
4. The chairman of the State Council for Professor Title shall base him-/herself on the Council�s resolutions to issue decisions on deprivation of the professor or associate professor title.
Article 21.- Promotion process:
1. For public tertiary or post-graduate education establishments:
a) The education establishments shall make the lists of candidates to be promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor and send them to the concerned ministerial-level agencies.
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c) The Minister-Director of the Governments Organization-Personnel Commission shall issue decisions to promote qualified persons to the rank of professor or associate professor after getting the consent of the Minister of Education and Training.
2. For semi-public, people-founded and private tertiary and post-graduate education establishments (called collectively the non-public tertiary and post-graduate education establishments):
The principals shall make the lists of persons who have been conferred the title of professor or associate professor and need to be promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor and send them to the Management Boards of the establishments. The Management Board chairmen shall base themselves on the Boards resolutions to issue decisions to promote people of their respective schools to the rank of professor or associate professor after getting the consent of the Minister of Education and Training.
Article 22.- Process of removal
1. For public tertiary and post-graduate education establishments:
a) The education establishments shall propose in writing to the ministerial-level agencies the lists of persons subject to the removal as provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of this Decree;
b) The ministerial-level agencies shall send the lists of persons proposed for removal to the Minister-Director of the Governments Organization- Personnel Commission;
c) The Minister-Director of the Governments Organization-Personnel Commission shall issue the removal decisions after getting consent of the Minister of Education and Training.
2. For non-public tertiary and post-graduate education establishments: the principals shall make the lists of persons subject to removal as provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of this Decree and send them to the Management Boards of the establishments. The Management Board chairmen shall base themselves on the Boards resolutions to issue decisions on removal from the rank of professor or associate professor after getting consent of the Minister of Education and Training.
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ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai