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Decree 88/2026/NĐ-CP was issued by the Government of Vietnam on 28 March 2026 and took effect on 15 May 2026. The Ministry of Education and Training is the lead authority. It is an active education-sector overlay for education and training data governance, learner records, credentials, sharing, and interoperability, binding schools, universities, education and training institutions, education-data platforms, EdTech providers, and certification and diploma systems.
Within that scope, the decree asks organizations to inventory education and training data together with its systems, owners, sources, and recipients; assign accountable ownership, quality, update, access, and lifecycle controls for education databases; maintain provenance, authenticity, and verification evidence for diplomas, certificates, transcripts, and learning records; and record lawful sharing, interconnection, authentication, and reuse controls where education data moves between systems.
Two obligations point directly at the sensitivity of this population. Learner, student, staff, and minor personal-data processing must be cross-linked to the applicable Personal Data Protection Law safeguards rather than governed twice. And where an organization uses AI systems to assess, rank, monitor, or profile learners, that use must be mapped to AI Law and high-risk-system controls; the pack's cross-references reach as far as the AI High-Risk Systems Decision. A further obligation addresses the legal-equivalence readiness of electronic education records where applicable.
This overlay is opt-in: organizations outside its declared scope can install it in reference mode, which produces no deadlines, score contribution, or automated workflows. ComplianceOne keeps its education-specific obligations connected to the Data Law, PDPL, cybersecurity, identity, and AI frameworks they depend on, without duplicating those parent obligations or blurring which instrument owns which requirement.
Decree 88/2026/NĐ-CP, issued 28 March 2026, effective 15 May 2026, Ministry of Education and Training as lead authority.
Schools, universities, education and training institutions, education-data platforms, EdTech providers, and certification/diploma systems.
Education-data inventory; education database governance; learner/staff/minor data safeguards; credential and learning-record integrity; data sharing and interconnection; electronic-record legal-equivalence readiness; AI learner-system risk cross-link.
Learner-record inventories, credential and verification records, sharing/interconnection records, and AI-risk cross-link assessments across 8 tracked obligations.
No official form has been verified against the checked Decree 88 Gazette text, appendices, or linked Ministry of Education and Training procedure references; the pack's 8 templates are internal working documents.
ComplianceOne does not record monetary fine amounts for this instrument.
Active, optional education sector overlay, direct mode for in-scope organizations, reference mode for others.

ComplianceOne maintains the education and training data inventory as a governed register (systems, owners, sources, and recipients tied to accountable review rather than a static spreadsheet) alongside education-database governance records covering control description, implementation, and ownership for each database in scope.
For credentials, the platform tracks diploma, certificate, transcript, and learning-record verification as its own evidence type, separate from general data records, so provenance and authenticity checks are traceable on demand. Data-sharing and interconnection records capture recipients, storage locations, and cross-references to the frameworks each transfer also touches.
Because learner, student, staff, and minor data is personal data, the platform links this overlay's evidence to the relevant PDPL safeguards without duplicating them, and where AI systems assess, rank, monitor, or profile learners, the AI education-system risk cross-link record connects that use to AI Law and high-risk-system evidence. Contributor, review, and approval history stays attached to every record as work progresses.
Maintains the education and training data inventory, system relationships, and sharing/interconnection records.
Explore Data MappingDistinguishes learner, minor, and staff personal data from general education records for handling decisions.
Explore Data ClassificationLogs and requires justification for access to education and credential databases, and compiles per-framework evidence packages for review.
Explore Access & AccountabilityPreserves contributor, review, approval, and evidence history across inventory, credential, and AI cross-link records.
Explore Audit Trail


Two decree obligations focus on people: learner, staff and minor data safeguards, plus AI learner-system risk. Both link to PDPL and AI records so decisions remain reviewable.

Credential integrity and electronic-record legal equivalence are kept as separate records. Institutions can evidence who issued or changed a record and its legal status independently.

Decree 88 links to 12 Vietnamese frameworks, including the Data Law, PDPL, identity and AI. Evidence is linked across records instead of duplicated, avoiding re-entry.
See how ComplianceOne helps structure learner, credential, and AI-risk evidence, ownership, and review for this framework.

Schools, universities, education and training institutions, education-data platforms, EdTech providers, and certification and diploma systems. Organizations outside this scope can still install the pack in reference mode.
Reference mode is the default outside declared education scope. It lets you browse the framework's requirements and evidence templates without generating deadlines, contributing to a compliance score, or triggering automated workflows.
The diploma, certificate, and transcript verification record asks for the evidence description and source, a reference to the related obligation, and a responsible person with a review date and status, kept as its own evidence type, separate from the general education-data inventory.
No. No official form has been verified against the checked Decree 88 Gazette text, its appendices, or linked Ministry of Education and Training procedure references. The pack's 8 templates are internal ComplianceOne working documents for organizing evidence, not government forms.
Learner, student, staff, and minor personal-data processing is cross-linked to the applicable Personal Data Protection Law safeguards rather than governed a second time, so education-specific records stay connected to, but distinct from, the underlying data-protection work.
No. ComplianceOne does not record monetary fine amounts for this instrument. Confirm any penalty figures against the official Decree 88 text.
Where an organization uses AI systems to assess, rank, monitor, or profile learners, the AI education-system risk cross-link record connects that use to the relevant AI Law and high-risk-system evidence, including the AI High-Risk Systems Decision, without duplicating that assessment.
No. It helps organize evidence around diploma, certificate, and transcript provenance and verification. It does not issue credentials or perform verification on the platform's own authority.

Test scoped workflows, evidence, and review with your compliance team.

Review applicability, evidence sources, and operating-model requirements.