Summary of regulations on vocational education institutions in Vietnam 2023

Summary of vocational education institutions in Vietnam 2023 (Internet image)

1. What is vocational education?

Vocational education means a level of national education system which provides workers with elementary-level, intermediate-level, college-level vocational training and other vocational training programs in order to meet the needs of direct human resources in production, businesses and services, including: formal training and continuing training.

Private vocational education institution or non-profit foreign-invested vocational training institution means:

A private vocational education institution or a foreign-invested vocational education institution whose annual accumulated profits are undivided shared assets used for reinvestment in the vocational education institution;

its shareholders or capital contributing members shall not receive dividends or receive annual dividends not exceeding the interests of the Government’s bonds.

(Clause 1, Clause 7, Article 3 of Law on Vocational Education 2014)

2. Vocational education institutions in Vietnam

Article 5 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014 stipulates that tocational education institutions include:

- Vocational education centers;

- Vocational training schools;

- Colleges.

* 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.

3. Regulations on bridge programs in Vietnam

Article 9 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014 stipulates the bridge programs as follows:

- Bridge programs shall be run according to training programs; the learners are not required to learn the completed subjects again when they reach the higher level in the same or different disciplines.

- The Principals of the vocational training schools or colleges shall decide the modules, credits, or subjects that the students are not required learning again according to the training programs.

- Bridge programs between levels of the vocational education shall comply with regulations of the Heads of vocational education authorities of central government;

Bridge programs between levels of the vocational education and levels of higher education shall comply with regulations of the Prime Minister.

4. Organizational structure of vocational education institutions in Vietnam

Article 10 of the Law on Vocational Education 2014 stipulates the organizational structure of vocational education institutions as follows:

- Organizational structure of a public or private vocational training school or college includes:

+ School councils of public vocational training schools, or colleges; Board of Directors of private vocational training schools or colleges;

+ Principals, Vice Principals;

+ Administrative departments;

+ Faculties, or subjects;

+ Advisory boards;

+ School branch; organizations for scientific and technology research; organizations for training services, scientific research and application development; internal business facilities (if any).

- Organizational structure of a public or private vocational training center includes:

+ Directors, Deputy Directors;

+ Administrative departments;

+ Subjects;

+ Advisory boards;

+ Organizations for training services; internal business facilities (if any).

- The foreign-invested vocational education institutions shall be given autonomy in organizational structure.

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