Latest procedures for establishment of professional secondary school in Vietnam

According to the Circular No. 54/2011/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, procedures for establishment of professional secondary school are guided as follows:

1. Dossiers for school establishment including:

- Letter of Explanation on school establishment;

- Project on school establishment must include the following major contents:

+ Name of the school, type of the school, location, necessary and legal basis for school establishment;

+ Objectives, functions and tasks of the school;

+ Proposed training fields;

+ Training scale, enrollment sources, and enrollment objects;

+ Organizational structure of the School (School Council or Governance Board, Principal, Deputy Principals, Faculties, Departments, Logistic units, etc);

+ The necessary factors to ensure that the school shall operate as expected on the following perspectives: management personnel, teaching and supporting, operational expenditure, land area, building area, and facilities and equipment for proposed training fields.  

Number of set of dossiers: 04 sets.

2. Order of and procedures for establishment of the professional secondary school

- Organs, organizations and individuals proposed for establishment of the school have to prepare the documents according to regulations under Sub-article 1 of this Article and send to the organizations which have power to decide the establishment or allow the establishment of the School. The decisive organizations have the duty to assign the units to assess and issue the decision. 

- Assessment of the school establishment’s documents

+ For the Professional Secondary school under the Ministry or Branch: the unit which is assigned to manage and keep track the Professional Secondary educational activities of the Ministry or Branch, shall assume the prime responsibility for and coordinate with concerning units in the Ministry or Branch to carry out the assessment. For the Professional Secondary School under the Provincial People’s Committee, the Provincial Department of Training and Education assume the prime responsibility for and coordinate with concerning departments to carry out the assessment;

+ The assessment report shall be signed by the head of the responsible unit. The contents of the report must ensure to have enough basic information for the authorized organizations to decide: agree or disagree with the establishment of the school, not allow the establishment, some issues in the project should be further researched.

- Decide the establishment or allow the establishment of the School

After the assessment, if it is agreed to establish the school, the organization which is responsible for organization of the assessment shall make a decision draft then submit it to the authorized organization to sign the decision on the establishment or allow the establishment of the professional secondary school. The decision on the establishment or allow the establishment of the professional secondary school must be sent to the Ministry of Training and Education for overseeing and management (except the professional secondary school under the Ministry of Training and Education).

3. Time limit for settlement of the establishment of the Professional Secondary School

- Within 05 working days upon receipt the application dossier of the organizations and individuals proposed for the establishment of the school, if the dossier is not complete as prescribed, the dossier received agency must issue the written notification to ask those organizations and individuals to amend or supplement the dossier;

- Within 30 working days upon receipt of the full application dossier, the authorized agencies must issue the decision on the establishment or allow the establishment of the professional secondary school.

View more details at the Circular No. 54/2011/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from December 19, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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