07 objectives of continuing education programs in Vietnam

According to Circular No. 43/2015/TT-BLĐTBXH of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, objectives of continuing education programs include:

1. “continuing education programs required by the students” aims at providing practice knowledge and skills covered by a training program or a training module prescribed in Clause 3 in Article 3 of the Law on Vocational Education or practice knowledge and skills of a profession or some tasks of a profession for students which allow them to choose lessons, time and place of training as well as teachers or trainers.

2. “training, broadening vocational knowledge and harnessing vocational skills” aims at increasing the capacity to practice the profession, upgrading new knowledge and completing professional standards for the purpose of improving knowledge and skills of the laborers.

3. “training in forms of mentoring or handing down profession” means providing or handing down vocational knowledge and skills to the students during the working process with the skilled craft workers.

4. “training in the form of apprenticeship” aims at instructing students to practice vocational skills and practice the profession in a fixed term to make sure they could meet the recruitment requirement of the employer or create self-employment.

5. “training for full development of vocational skills” aims at providing more knowledge for the laborers, increasing the capacity to practice the profession, upgrading new knowledge and completing vocational skills in consistency with professional standards to make sure they could meet the job requirements or participate in the evaluation of national vocational skill standards.

6. “technology transfer program” aims at providing students with knowledge, advance scientific technologies and new techniques including methods for processing, creating and transforming the state, characteristic and form of raw materials or semi-finished products used in the production process for creating finished products or industrial methods of using live animals and biological procedures for creating necessary products.

7. “other training programs for less than 3 months” (hereinafter referred to as training programs for less than 3 months) means programs with training time from 100 to less than 300 hours and course time (from the starting to ending of the course) less than 3 months providing students with the capacity to practice a simple profession or to perform some tasks of a profession or practice capacity as required by the job position.

View details at Circular No. 43/2015/TT-BLĐTBXH of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, effective from December 05, 2015.

Le Hai

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