09 Conditions for opening training majors of professional intermediate level in Vietnam

09 Conditions for opening training majors of professional intermediate level in Vietnam (Internet image)

Article 3 of Circular 52/2011/TT-BGDDT stipulates 09 conditions for opening training majors of professional intermediate level including:

1. Having full legal status and satisfying the existing regulations on training of professional intermediate level.

2. The training major registered for opening must be consistent with requirements on function, tasks, planning, and development strategy of the school, planning for development of local manpower and of its branch. Ensuring that there is no overlap the training majors between the schools in the same area.

3. The training major registered for opening must be in the list of training majors issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

In case the training major registered for opening has not been named in the list of training majors, the training institutions must present the scientific arguments of this training major, needs for training local labor and of its branch, training experience of some countries in the world (if any) and must be approved in writing by the Ministry of Education and Training for this training major before sending documents to the competent agency deciding on opening it.

4. Having teachers team to implement training program, specifically:

- Teachers participating in teaching must ensure adequate standards as prescribed by law on education and the regulations of vocational school; have qualifications and actual experience in accordance with the requirements of credit that they will teach in the training program;

- Having the team of tenured lecturers undertaking to teach at least 70% of the volume of training programs corresponding to each block of knowledge and skill of the major registered for opening, in which there are at least three teachers with university grade or more appropriate to the major registered for opening.

5. Having material facilities and equipment guaranteed to meet requirements of the major registered for opening, namely:

- Having adequate classrooms meeting training scale as specified. The classrooms must be ensured lighting, ventilation, hygiene safety, fire, and basic equipment for teaching and learning;

- Laboratory, practice rooms meeting the requirements on practice, basic practice of the training program. The equipment in the room is ensured the quantity, quality, arranged in conformity with content of the training program, student scale, teaching organizational methods and regulations on occupational safety and technological level of current production;

For the practice establishments outside the schools, the training institutions must be approved in writing by the practice establishments outside the schools;

- Library must have room for looking up information and other equipment to serve the borrowing, reference of documents; have enough textbooks, learning-teaching materials, and reference books for students and teachers at request of the major registered for opening;

- The college's website must be updated regularly, announced commitment of education quality, education quality in reality, the conditions to ensure the quality and financial revenues and expenditures

6. Having training program and detailed program of credits in the training program to meet the following requirements:

- The program must ensure that the current provisions on professional intermediate level training, in which the plan to implement training program must be shown allocation of time for the activities, the credits and learning duration consistent with trainees, ensuring learning load spread out throughout the course. Training programs are set up in accordance with provisions in Form 1 of Appendix II attached to this Circular.

- Detailed program of each credit is set up as prescribed in Form 2 of Appendix II, in which:

• Name of the credit, credit duration, the time to implement the credit program should be consistent with the training program;

• The objective of the credit must be determined according to the output standard of the credit (requirement on knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors that students must meet after the end of credit) and consistent with the objective of training program;

• Detailed program of credit must specify prerequisites (if any) to require students to meet before studying the credit;

• Methods of teaching and learning of credits must be the methods that can promote the positive, active factors of learners and appropriate to the nature of the credit;

• Assessment of learning outcomes must be consistent with current regulations on training professional intermediate level and objectives, the nature of the credit;

• The detailed contents of the credit contain the knowledge, specific skill of the credit which are specified in sections, chapters or lessons and the main contents for each chapter, the lesson. These contents must meet the credit’s objective, consistent with the duration of credit and learning-teaching load of teachers and students. The contents of general credits must be consistent with the content that the Ministry of Education and Training was provided for;

• For the practices in the laboratory or in the establishments outside school, it must be clearly stated objective, content of practice, plan, time, conditions for ensuring quality of practices and other requirements for students during the practice.

• Teaching equipment must be stated clearly the name, quantity of equipment, facilities, main materials for the teaching and learning (theory and practice);

• Requirements for school teachers must be clearly stated the requirements for professional qualifications, teaching qualifications, teaching experience, actual professional experience;

• Reference source used for credit must be clearly stated the document name, author, year of publication, publisher. If the reference source is taken from internet, it must be clearly stated address to access the Website. References must be updated materials associated with the content of the credit (may be in Vietnamese or foreign language).

- Council building the programs includes the lecturers, teachers with experience in the related contents in the program and professional intermediate level teaching experience; the educational managers; experts on building the program, representatives of the units using employees of the training major. Total number of teachers and lecturers of the training institutions to join the Council does not exceed two thirds of the total members of the Council;

- Training program and detailed program of credits must be passed by the appraisal Council of training program of the training institutions (for the training institutions that are allowed to self-evaluate training programs) or of a training institution appointed by the authorities that are competent to decide on opening the majors (for the training institutions that are not allowed to self- evaluate training programs) or have the written approval of the Ministry of Education and Training ( for special cases prescribed at Point a, Clause 3, Article 4).

7. Having the management apparatus and organizational regulations and activities of the school to ensure implementation of training majors.

8. Having no violation of regulations on enrollment, organization, and management of training and other relevant provisions of law for a period of three consecutive years to the date of filing dossier for opening training majors.

9. For some training majors of the group of special majors (Health; Sport And Fitness; Art; Teacher Training), in addition to the conditions of opening the majors as specified in this document, the training institutions must also meet the conditions prescribed by the Ministry, governing branch of this area.

More details can be found in Circular 52/2011/TT-BGDDT, which comes into force from December 26, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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