HCM City, April 9 -- Vietnamese universities have devised flexible plans to ensure final-year students can graduate despite the extended school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bui Hoai Thang, head of the HCM City University of Technology's Training Department, said though the graduation ceremony, which was initially scheduled to take place in April, would be delayed, final-year students who defended their theses in November 2019 could receive their degrees before the ceremony.

Other students who were in their last semester at the university can choose to defend their theses in July or September.

Instead of handing over physical copies of theses like in previous years, the HCM City University of Transport (UT) has allowed students...