Policies on vocational education institutions in Vietnam

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Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Policies on vocational education institutions in Vietnam

Policies on vocational education institutions according to Article 26 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014 are as follows:

- The vocational education institution shall benefit from the following policies:

+ Acquire land through land allocation or lease by the State; receive incentives for credit to invest in facilities and improve the training quality; tax incentives in accordance with regulations of law on taxation; tax exemption from the undivided income in the vocational education to invest in development; tax exemption and reduction as prescribed in regulations on profits earned from products or services of the training activities; tax incentives applied to the production, business or services conformable with the training activities, publishing of teaching materials, production and provision of training equipment, import of books, newspaper, materials and training equipment;

+ Participate in tender, receive the training order of the State as prescribed in law on tender, orders for public services using government budget.

+ Apply for capital incentives from domestic and foreign programs or projects;

+ Participate in programs for training of domestic and foreign vocational educators or administrative officials using the funding from the government budget;

+ Support the investment to ensure the requirements in order to accept upper-secondary ethnic boarding school graduates to apprentice;

+ Support development in training of disciplines meeting study demands of the workers working abroad;

+ Incentive policies on private sector involvement as prescribed.

- People’s Committees at all levels shall enable vocational education institutions in the administrative divisions to undertake training activities, propagate the progress of science, technology and technology transfers.

2. Tasks and entitlement of public or private vocational education institutions in Vietnam

Tasks and entitlement of public or private vocational education institutions in Vietnam according to Article 23 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014 are as follows:

- Formulate strategies and planning for vocational education institution development.

- Provision of vocational training:

+ The vocational education center shall provide elementary-level vocational training, general vocational training and career counseling for students according to compulsory education programs;

+ The vocational training schools shall provide intermediate-level and elementary-level vocational training;

+ The vocational college shall provide college-level, intermediate-level and elementary-level vocational training.

- Provide continuous training as prescribed in the Section 2 Chapter III of this Law.

- Enjoy autonomy and take responsibility for enrollment and management of students.

- Announce the objectives, training programs; requirements for teaching and learning quality assurance; tuition fees and exemption and reduction in tuition fees; results of training quality assessment; system of degrees and certificates in the vocational education institutions; jobs after graduation and measures for inspection and observation of the training quality.

- Conduct teaching and learning activities according to the objectives and training programs; grant degrees or certificates in vocational education to learners; provide theoretic or practical courses and probation according to the contract concluded with enterprises.

- Use foreign training programs which are recognized the quality by the foreign or international education and training organization to perform training objectives as prescribed.

- Associate domestic training activities; associate training activities with foreign organizations as prescribed in this Law and relevant regulations of law.

- Mobilize, manage, and use resources as prescribed.

- Construct and invest in training facilities, equipment as required by standardization and modernization.

- Employ and manage educators, administrative officials, civil servants, workers; enable for the educators to participate in production practice at the enterprises to update and improve the vocational skills; enable for the educators, civil servants, workers and students to participate in social activities.

- Assess and guarantee the training quality as prescribed.

- Give advice on training and jobs to the students without charges.

- Qualify for enterprise establishment, or for scientific activities, production, business, or services as prescribed.

- Introduce the subjects about language, custom, and relevant regulations of law of the country where the workers work and relevant regulations of Vietnamese law into the curriculum when sending domestic workers overseas.

- Research science to serve and improve the training quality; apply research findings, technology transfers to the practical production, sales, and services.

- Conform to the democratic regulations in the vocational education institution.

- Provide a mechanism in order for the students, educators and social to evaluate the vocational training quality.

- Report and subject to the observation and inspection as prescribed.

- Other tasks and entitlement as prescribed.

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