What are specific objectives of the strategy for development of vocational education with vision to 2045 in Vietnam?

What are specific objectives of the strategy for development of vocational education with vision to 2045 in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Subsection 2.c, Section II, Article 1 of the Decision 2239/QD-TTg in 2021 stipulating specific objectives with vision to 2045 in Vietnam as follows: 

c) Vision towards 2045

Vocational education aims to meet a developing country’s needs for highly skilled human resources; our country is expected to be ranked as one of the leading countries in terms of vocational education in the ASEAN region, catch up with the advanced level of training standard in the world, and have outstanding competitiveness in a number of training fields, majors and occupations.

What are regulations on formulation of regulatory policies, improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of vocational education with vision to 2045 in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Subsection 1, Section III, Article 1 of the Decision 2239/QD-TTg in 2021 stipulating formulation of regulatory policies, improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of vocational education in Vietnam as follows: 

1. Formulate complete regulatory policies, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of vocational education.

- Effectively implement Vietnam's National Qualification Framework for vocational education levels and the National Framework for Vocational Skills Qualification; join in mutual recognition of vocational qualifications and skills with countries in the region and the world, especially ASEAN-4 countries and G20 economies. Scrutinize and supplement higher levels of vocational education to meet the labor market’s needs and international trends.

- Improve regulatory mechanisms and policies to attract investors, businesses and employers to actively participate in vocational education and skill development activities, especially vocational training at the workplace.

- Improve regulatory mechanisms and policies to attract and recruit public officers in charge of vocational education affairs and administrators of vocational education institutions, with an emphasis on developing a contingent of academic administrators in charge of the vocational education sector in severely disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and islands, while ensuring gender equality.

- Complete regulatory mechanisms and policies on recruitment, employment, treatment and honoring for teachers, artisans, experts and instructors involved in vocational education activities, ensuring gender equality. Complete preferential policies towards teachers teaching in boarding and semi-boarding vocational education institutions for ethnic minorities; teachers teaching in severely disadvantaged areas, border areas and islands; teachers teaching people with disabilities; teachers teaching in specific fields, sectors and industries. Develop incentive policies and open and flexible mechanisms to attract, train and educate scientists, technicians, artisans, people with high vocational skills and hands-on experience in order for them to participate in vocational training activities.

- Study, develop and submit to competent authorities for promulgation of policies to attract learners at different vocational education levels in key fields, majors and occupations; arduous and hazardous, arts, culture, physical training, sports, health,...majors and occupations; policies for learners in specific groups, such as people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, rural workers, female workers, migrant workers, people from poor households, near-poor households, discharged soldiers, etc.; gender equality policies for vocational education activities; policies to grant start-up loans to students and employees completing vocational training programs.

- Study and propose formulation of complete mechanisms and policies to enable freelance workers, workers who are unemployed or at risk of unemployment due to the impacts of the industrial revolution, natural disasters, epidemics, etc. to have access to vocational training programs. Supplement training regulations applied to foreigners in Vietnam.

- Continue to review and perfect regulatory mechanisms, and promulgate policies to manage to channelize the flow of lower and upper secondary graduates into vocational education institutions and gradually universalize the vocational education for the youth.

- Standardize vocational education benchmark sets to ensure that they approach the levels of standards of developing countries in the ASEAN region and the world.

- Study and develop regulatory mechanisms and policies to encourage vocational education institutions that meet quality accreditation standards, and vocational education institutions recognized as high-quality ones; develop complete policies for vocational education institutions providing vocational training programs for specific trainees and fields, sectors or industries. Complete regulatory mechanisms and policies regarding high-quality vocational training affairs.

- Arrange and organize the network of vocational education institutions which are open, flexible, modern, accessible, and diverse in terms of types and forms of organization; ensure the proportionate structures of majors and occupations, qualifications and regions; have sufficient capacity to meet the needs for workers graduating from vocational training programs, especially high-quality ones. Encourage the development of private, foreign-invested and intracorporate vocational education institutions.

- Develop the national system for vocational education quality assurance where the risk management principles are adopted and the post-inspection activities are strengthened. Enhance responsibility awareness, self-motivation, self-reliance and accountability, and promote the roles of leaders of vocational education institutions and regulatory authorities at all levels. Renovate the inspection, accreditation, assessment and recognition of vocational education quality. Study the formulation and application of the national framework for vocational education quality assurance and training programs in specific fields, majors and occupations. Develop a team of accreditors and a network of vocational education accrediting organizations.

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