Regulations on Institutions of continuing education in Vietnam

What is continuing education?

According to the provisions of the Law on Education 2019, continuing education means education that follows a certain educational programme and has flexible organisation regarding programme implementation formats, time, methods, locations, satisfying the learners’ need for lifelong learning.

Continuing education enables people to learn while in-service, to learn continuously and for lifelong for development of their capacity, refinement of their personality, broadening their understanding, and for educational, professional and operational enhancement with a view to improving their employability, self-employability, and adaptation to the social life; contributing to the building of a learning society.

Objectives of continuing education are:

- Illiteracy eradication for citizens of suitable age as prescribed by law.

- Training, upgrading and enhancing professional capacity; updating and supplying knowledge and skills necessary to people’s life; enabling those with the needs for education to improve their educational qualifications.

Regulations on Institutions of continuing education in Vietnam (Internet image)

Institutions of continuing education in Vietnam

Pursuant to Article 44 of the Law on Education 2019, programmes of continuing education are conducted at institutions of continuing education, general education, vocational education or higher education, cultural institutions, at the workplace, residential communities, through mass media or other means.

Institutions of continuing education are as follows:

- Institutions of continuing education

- Institutions of vocational education – continuing education;

- Community learning centers;

- Other centers that conduct continuing education.

The implementation of continuing educational programmes of continuing education institutions are prescribed as follows:

- Continuing education centers and vocational – continuing education centers shall implement educational programmes defined in clause 1 Article 43 of the Law on Education 2019, except for educational programmes leading to diplomas of vocational secondary education, college degrees, bachelor’s degrees;

- Community learning centers shall implement educational programmes defined in point a and point b of clause 1 of Article 43 of the Law on Education 2019;

- Other centers shall implement educational programmes defined in point b and point c of clause 1 of Article 43 of the Law on Education 2019.

General education institutions, vocational education institutions, higher education institutions implementing continuing educational programmes shall guarantee their educational and training duties, only implement educational programmes defined in point d clause 1 of Article 43 of the Law on Education 2019 when authorised by competent education authority.

Cooperation in offering in-service courses with higher education institutions shall be implemented in accordance with the Law on Higher education.

Programmes, forms, contents and methods of continuing education in Vietnam

(1) Programmes of continuing education include:

- Illiteracy eradication;

- Educational programmes responding to the needs of learners, updating of knowledge and skills, transfer of technology;

- Programmes for training, upgrading and enhancing professional qualifications;

- Educational programmes leading to degrees/diplomas of the national educational system.

(2) Forms of conducting continuing educational programmes are as follows:

- In-service learning;

- Distance learning;

- Guided self-learning;

- Other learning forms per learner’s needs.

(3) The following educational contents of the programmes must guarantee the usefulness and help learners improve their working productivity and quality of life.

- Illiteracy eradication;

- Educational programmes responding to the needs of learners, updating of knowledge and skills, transfer of technology;

- Programmes for training, upgrading and enhancing professional qualifications;

Educational programmes leading to degrees/diplomas of the national educational system. must lead to the completion of a qualification in the structural framework of the national educational system or the Vietnamese Qualifications Framework, must guarantee the requirements on contents of the educational programme of the same educational level/training qualification defined in Article 31 of the Law on Education 2019, the Law on Vocational education and Law on Higher education.

(4) Methods of continuing education must promote the activeness of learners, with an emphasis on the development of their self-learning ability, using modern facilities and technology to improve quality and efficiency of teaching and learning.

(5) Within the scope of their duties and authorities, the Minister of Education and Training and Minister of Labour - War Invalids and Social Affairs shall provide for educational programmes, textbooks, syllabi, materials of continuing education.

Basis: Article 43 of the Law on Education 2019.

Mai Thanh Loi

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