Concerned that the current training regulations affect the quality of doctoral training

When these theses are continuously released, it’s time Regulation doctoral training newly issued in 2021, analyzed and dissected by scientists. Experts fear that this regulation’s removal of the requirement for PhDs to have international publication will be the cause of a recurrence of the “doctor incubator” situation like a while ago.

Not only the thesis on the development of badminton, many other PhDs also researched on yoga, basketball, weightlifting… After that, many people also discovered a series of dissertations like “Socio-economic transformation process”. associations” in the localities. Moreover, the theses all have similar words and content in the “copy and paste” style.

Many doctoral theses have similar words and content

Professor Ngo Viet Trung is also concerned that this situation will happen again when the current doctoral training regulations allow the thesis and the instructor to publish only in domestic journals.

Over 40 years of scientific research, Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has had the opportunity to work with many domestic and foreign doctors. He realized the fact: a country that requires international publication will have very good doctorate quality, and vice versa, many unqualified doctors will appear.

As a Vietnamese scientist with more than 100 international publications in the field of Mechanics, Professor Pham Duc Chinh believes that raising the output standards in doctoral training is also significant in promoting the integration of Vietnamese science. out to the world.

Effective from August 2021, the Regulation on doctoral training according to Circular 18 of the Ministry of Education and Training has many points that are considered more advanced and detailed than the old regulation. However, right from the time of publication, there has been a lot of controversy, especially in removing the criteria for PhDs to be published in international journals.

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