University curricula in Vietnam will be shortened by up to one year, according to a new framework of the country’s national education system recently approved by the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc – reports VietNamNet Bridge.

According to the new framework, Viet Nam’s 12-year general education will be left as it is, while higher education will be shortened from between currently four and six years to between three and five years.

The change aims to enable country’s education system to catch up with other countries while to put fresh graduates into the workforce as quickly as possible, said Deputy Minister Bui Van Ga.

The parts of the new framework that do not violate the country’s existing laws on education would be effective immediately while those that do would be pending until the said laws are revised.

Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/education/166987/university-in-vietnam-gets-shortened.html