Criteria for Director of the vocational education center in Vietnam

Criteria for Director of the vocational education center in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. Who are the Directors of vocational education centers?

According to Clause 1, Article 13 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014, the Director of a vocational education center is the leader of the center, the representative of the center who takes legal responsibility and manages operation of the vocational education center.

Tenure of the Director of the vocational education center is 05 years.

2. Criteria for Director of the vocational education center in Vietnam

According to Clause 2, Article 13 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014, the Director of the vocational education center must:

- Have moral virtue;

- Have at least a college degree;

- Have completed refresher courses in vocational education management;

- Attain fitness.

3. Tasks and entitlement of the Director of the vocational education center

Specifically, in Clause 3, Article 13 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014, the Director of the vocational education center shall have following tasks and entitlement:

- Issue regulations of the vocational education centers;

- Decide the establishment, acquisition, division, or dissolution of the organizations of the vocational education centers; the appointment, discharge and dismissal of people occupying leader or vice leader positions in the organizations of the center;

- Formulate the planning and develop teaching staff and administrative officials; decide the structure, number of employees and efficiency wages;

Employ officials and workers according to the needs of the vocational education center; conclude employment contract, labor contract, manage and use officials, workers and terminate the contract as prescribed;

- Provide training activities, international cooperation, assess vocational education quality and cooperate with enterprises in the vocational training institution; offer career counseling to high school students;

- Manage the facilities, assets, and finance and use mobilized resource effectively to serve the operation of the vocational education centers as prescribed;

- Follow the information and report regime and inspection or observation as prescribed;

- Formulate and implement the democratic regulations in the institution; subject to the observation of the individual, organization, or unions in the vocational education centers;

- Send a report on result of tasks and entitlement to the senior agency every year;

- Other tasks and entitlement as prescribed.

4. Types of vocational education institutions in Vietnam

Vocational education institutions shall be organized under following types:

- Public vocational education institution is a State-owned vocational education institution, whose facilities invested and constructed by the State;

- Private vocational education institution is a vocational education institution under ownership of a social organization, a socio-professional organization, a private economic organization or individual, or a vocational education institution invested and constructed by a social organization, a socio-professional organization, a private economic organization, or an individual;

- Foreign-invested vocational education institution includes wholly foreign-invested vocational education institution; joint-venture vocational education institution between domestic investors and foreign investors.

(Clause 2, Article 5 of Law on Vocational Education 2014)

Thanh Rin

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