Vietnam: What are the 07 job positions in the education and training sector subject to periodical reassignment from January 14, 2025?

What are the 07 job positions in the education and training sector subject to periodical reassignment in Vietnam from January 14, 2025?

Under Article 2 of Circular 19/2024/TT-BGDDT, the list of job positions in the education and training sector subject to periodical reassignment in Vietnam is specified as follows:

[1] Enrollment and training in public schools.

[2] Allocation of quotas and management of enrollment for educational institutions within the national education system; allocation of postgraduate training quotas and overseas training quotas at agencies and units under the management authority of local government.

[3] Appraisal and approval of training and fostering programs of educational institutions within the national education system.

[4] Appraisal of local educational materials, textbooks, teaching aids, and other technical materials supporting teaching and research.

[5] Appraisal of dossiers for the establishment and permission to operate educational institutions within the national education system under the management scope.

[6] Management of projects and proposals in the education and training sector.

[7] Allocation and appraisal of scientific research topics in the education and training sector.

The periodical job reassignment period in Vietnam is prescribed as follows:

- The periodical job reassignment period in the education and training sector is from 03 (three) years to 05 (five) years.

- The job reassignment period starts from the date the decision on reassignment, arrangement, or assignment of tasks is issued by the competent authority according to legal regulations.

What are the 07 job positions in the education and training sector subject to periodical reassignment in Vietnam from January 14, 2025? (Image from the Internet)

What are the goals of education in Vietnam?

Under Article 2 of the Education Law 2019, the goals of education in Vietnam are as follows:

The goals of education are to educate the Vietnamese into comprehensively developed persons who possess ethics, knowledge, education, physical health, aesthetic sense and profession; to shape and cultivate one's dignity, civic qualifications and competence; to nurture one’s patriotism, national spirit, loyalty to the ideology of national independence and socialism; to develop potentials, creativity of each individual; to improve the people’s knowledge and manpower, to foster talents, satisfying the demands of the construction and defense of the Fatherland and international integration.

What are the regulations on the educational programmes in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 8 of the Education Law 2019, the regulations on the educational programmes are as follows:

- Educational programmes shall reflect the goals of education; set the standards for knowledge, skills, requirements on quality and capacity of learners; scope and structure of educational contents; methods and forms of organizing educational activities; evaluation methods of educational outcomes for each subject of every grade and level or for each subject, module, specialization of every training qualification.

- Educational programmes must ensure the scientific and practical characteristics; inheritability and transferability among different levels and different training qualifications; facilitate the classification of students and exchange between training qualifications, specializations and educational forms in the national educational system in order for localities and educational institutions to proactively implement suitable educational plans; satisfying the goal of gender equality and demands of international integration. Educational programmes are the basis of comprehensive education quality assurance.

- Requirements on knowledge, skills and on dignity and capacity of learners defined in educational programmes must be concretized in textbooks used for general education, in syllabi and teaching materials used for vocational education and higher education. Textbooks, syllabi and teaching materials must meet the requirements on educational methods.

- Preschool education and general education shall run year-based programmes; vocational education and higher education may run year-based, module-based, credit-based programmes or combined programmes.

Study results of subjects or credits/modules accumulated by learners after pursuing an educational programme are considered for transferable values for respective subjects or credits/modules of other educational programmes when learners change their educational specializations/professions, forms of studies, or follow higher educational levels or qualifications.

-  Within the scope of their duties and authorities, the Minister of Education and Training and Minister of Labour - War Invalids and Social Affairs shall stipulate the implementation of educational programmes and the recognition of the transferable values of study results of higher education and vocational education levels as prescribed in this Article.