A higher education institution in Hanoi has withdrawn hundreds of graduate degrees due to a blunder.

The Academy of Journalism and Communication awarded over 270 master’s degrees to its students at a ceremony on Thursday.

The awardees then discovered that the title of the academy’s head had been misspelt on their degree certificates. Accordingly, “The Director of Academy of Journalism and Communication” was misprinted as “The Derector of …”

The graduates immediately notified the academic affairs office which in turn ordered a recall of the diplomas for a reprint.

Those who came to the conferment ceremony from other parts of the country will receive their degrees over express mail service, the school said.

The academy was established in 1962 and is now a leading journalism school alongside the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City.