What is the full text of Decree 37/2025/ND-CP regarding the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam?

What is the full text of Decree 37/2025/ND-CP regarding the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam?

On February 26, 2025, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 37/2025/ND-CP regarding the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam.

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Specifically, according to Article 1 of Decree 37/2025, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam is a governmental body, performing state management functions in the following fields: preschool education, general education, vocational education, higher education, continuing education; skills development; state management of the Vietnamese language and languages of ethnic groups; along with managing public services within the ministry's management scope.

Decree 37/2025/ND-CP will officially come into force on March 1, 2025.

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What is the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam according to Decree 37/2025?

Under Article 3 of Decree 37/2025/ND-CP Download, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam includes the following units:

(1) 15 organizations under the Ministry assisting the Minister in performing state management functions:

- Department of Preschool Education;

- Department of General Education;

- Department of Higher Education;

- Department of National Defense and Security Education;

- Department of Student Affairs;

- Legal Department;

- Department of Personnel Organization;

- Department of Planning and Finance;

- Office;

- Inspectorate;

- Department of Teachers and Educational Managers;

- Department of Quality Management;

- Department of Science, Technology and Information;

- Department of International Cooperation;

- Department of Vocational Education and Continuing Education;

(2) 03 public service providers serving the ministry's state management functions including:

- Education and Times Newspaper;

- The Education Journal;

- Vietnamese Institute of Educational Sciences.

(3) The Directorate of Vocational Education and the Department of Continuing Education continue to perform their tasks and powers as prescribed by law until the Minister of Education and Training issues a Decision on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Department of Vocational Education and Continuing Education.

The deadline for completion is March 31, 2025.

What are the tasks and powers of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 2 of Decree 37/2025/ND-CP Download, the tasks and powers of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam are as follows:

- Submit to the Government of Vietnam draft laws, draft resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances, draft resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, draft decrees of the Government of Vietnam, resolutions, projects, proposals, draft decisions, directives of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, and other documents as assigned by the Government of Vietnam, the Prime Minister of Vietnam; submit to the Government of Vietnam opinions on draft laws, ordinances submitted by agencies, organizations, and members of the National Assembly related to the sectors and fields under the ministry's state management;

- Issue circulars and other documents under the authority of state management as prescribed by law;

- Direct, guide, propagate, disseminate, monitor implementation, inspect, and organize the enactment of documents after they are issued under the law.

What are the tasks and powers of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam regarding educational objectives, programs, and content?

Under Clause 3, Article 2 of Decree 37/2025/ND-CP Download, the tasks and powers of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam regarding educational objectives, programs, and content are as follows:

- Guide and organize the implementation of educational objectives suitable to educational levels and training levels of the national education system;

- The Ministry issues preschool education programs; prescribes standards, processes for compiling, revising preschool education programs; prescribes tasks, powers, operation methods, standards, quantity, and structure of members of the National Council for Preschool Education Program Appraisal;

- Issue general education programs; prescribe standards and processes for compiling and revising general education programs; prescribe tasks, powers, operation methods, standards, quantity, and structure of members of the National Council for General Education Program Appraisal; prescribe teaching of high school cultural knowledge in vocational education institutions;

- Simultaneously, stipulate programs, content, organizational implementation of national defense and security education programs for learners in high schools, higher education institutions, and vocational education institutions; prescribe continuing education programs; provide regulations on construction, appraisal, issuance of training programs and lists of majors, professions at higher education and vocational education levels; stipulate other vocational training programs as prescribed by the vocational education law; issue university preparatory training programs; guide building a learning society, creating policies to promote lifelong learning.