| THE GOVERNMENT ----- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness --------- |
| No: 20/2001/ND-CP | Hanoi, May 17, 2001 |
DECREE
DEFINING THE CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR CONFERMENT AND DEPRIVATION OF PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TITLES
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:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- This Decree defines the criteria and procedures for conferment and deprivation of the professor and associate professor titles.
Article 2.- The procedures for conferment of the titles of professor and associate professor shall cover the consideration and recognition of these titles and the promotion to the ranks of professor and associate professor. The procedures for deprivation of the titles of professor and associate professor shall cover the consideration of the stripping of these titles and the removal from the corresponding ranks of professor and associate professor.
Article 3.- Subjects entitled to be considered for recognition of the titles of professors and associate professors shall include:
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 5.- Subjects entitled to be promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor shall include teachers who have been conferred the title of professor or associate professor or have obtained the academic title of professor or associate professor in the lecturing staff of the tertiary and post-graduate education establishments.
Article 6.- Subjects to be removed from the rank of professor or associate professor:
1. Persons who have been promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor but failed to fulfill their tasks;
2. Persons who have been stripped of the title of professor or associate professor.
Article 7.- Persons who have been promoted to the rank of professor or associate professor but transferred to other working posts where exist no rank of professor or associate professor shall be transferred to the corresponding rank.
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.
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