THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
48/2002/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
April 11, 2002
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DECISION
RATIFYING THE PLANNING
ON JOB-TRAINING SCHOOL NETWORK FOR THE 2002-2010 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Labor Code of June 23, 1994;
Pursuant to the Education Law of December 2, 1998;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.02/2001/ND-CP of January 9, 2001
detailing the implementation of the Labor Code and the Education Law regarding
job training;
At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To ratify the
planning on job-training school network for the 2002-2010 period with the
following principal contents:
1. Objectives of the planning:
- To build a network of job-training schools and
other job-training establishments to meet the socio-economic development
demand, consolidate the security and defense, and serve the national
industrialization and modernization;
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- To create opportunities for almost all
laborers to acquire professional knowledge and skills, making them capable of
absorbing new technologies so that they can create jobs for themselves and take
initiative in seeking career opportunities.
2. Principles of the planning:
- To be based on the socio-economic development
strategy of the whole country or of each sector, economic zone or locality;
rationally readjust the sectoral, level and regional structures; and expand the
training scale on the basis of ensuring quality and efficiency thereof and
combining training and employment;
- To ensure its succession and suitability with
the investment capabilities of the State and the society; step up the job
training socialization; and encourage the development of non-public and
foreign-invested job-training establishments;
- To expand the training of technical workers,
technicians and professional staff at various levels; link sectors, jobs and
job-training levels with other training levels in the national education
system.
3. Contents of the planning:
a/ Training levels:
To form a technical practice training system, in
which short-term (under one year) job training programs (for semi-skilled
workers) and long-term (between one and three years) job-training programs (for
skilled and high-level workers) shall be carried out:
- Semi-skilled workers: shall be furnished with
certain professional knowledge and skills;
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- High-level workers: shall be furnished with
good job skills and necessary technical and professional knowledge, based on the
senior secondary education or vocational intermediate education, so that they
can operate modern equipment and solve complicated and diversified problems
arising in automatic production chains or modern technologies.
Graduates from short-term job-training programs
shall be granted job-training certificates, while graduates from long-term
job-training programs shall be granted job-training graduation diplomas
according to the provisions of the Education Law;
To ensure that the ratios among training levels
are suitable to the requirements of the economic and labor restructuring,
technological development rate; to attach importance to the training of
technical workers, technicians and high-level professional staff to raise the
competitiveness of the economy.
b/ Job-training school network:
- Job-training establishments include
job-training schools, job-training centers and job-training classes. The
network of job-training schools includes also vocational intermediate schools
and technical colleges with job-training functions and tasks;
- To step by step build new job-training schools
and consolidate the existing ones along the direction of standardization and
modernization, in order to raise the training capacity, quality and efficiency;
concentrate investment in the upgrading and development of high-quality
job-training schools, high-level job-training schools in key economic zones and
industrial parks for a number of spear-head economic branches in line with the
socio-economic development planning;
- To readjust the network of schools under the
ministries, branches and localities to make it suitable to the requirements of
the labor restructuring by branch, sector or region; establish new schools in
provinces where no school exists, dynamic economic zones, branches, localities
and enterprises with great demands for job-trained workers; form multi-job
training schools in the Mekong river delta, the Northwestern region, the
Central Highlands and the coastal Central Vietnam;
- To develop job-training establishments at
enterprises, non-public and foreign-invested establishments, and job-training
programs in the community-based education centers;
- To strive for the objective that by 2005 each
province (or city) shall have at least one job-training school, each urban or
rural district shall have one short-term job-training center, and by 2010, a
number of urban or rural districts shall have job-training schools.
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- To scale up the enrollment of long-term job
trainees by 11-12% annually and raise the rate of job-trained laborers to 26%
by 2010;
- To raise the percentage of enrolled long-term
job trainees on the total job-training enrollment from 16% (in 2000) to around
22% (by 2005) and 27% (by 2010), of which high-level trainees shall account for
around 7% (by 2005) and 15% (by 2010);
- To raise the ratio of job trainees at
non-public establishments to around 70% by 2010.
d/ Structure of trained occupations and jobs:
- The structure of trained occupations and jobs
shall be regularly forecast and readjusted to meet demands of the labor market
in the industrial, agricultural and service sectors;
- To focus on the training of laborers for a
number of high-tech occupations and jobs and high-quality services in big
cities, industrial parks and export processing zones; give priority to a number
of such spear-head sectors as information technology, telecommunications,
precision mechanical engineering, mechano-electronics, electro-electronics,
aviation, petro-chemistry, new materials, bio-technology, and a number of
branches with great labor demands, such as textile-garment industry and aquatic
resource sector; attach importance to job-training in service of the
agricultural industrialization and modernization, development of rural and
mountainous regions, and labor export.
e/ Contingent of job trainers:
- To step by step standardize the contingent of
trainers; to raise the average ratio of trainers to trainees to 1/15 by 2010;
to gradually raise the percentage of trainers of post-graduate level at
job-training schools, especially at high-level job-training schools.
f/ Technical and material bases:
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- To concentrate investment in building of
technical and material bases for high-level schools and a number of
job-training schools of the ministries, branches and localities.
g/ Research and production activities in
job-training schools:
- To step up the scientific research, experiment
and application of new technologies to the production in service of teaching
and studying activities;
- To encourage the formation of production
and/or service establishments suitable to trained occupations and jobs, in
order to realize the guideline that learning goes in couple with practice,
create conditions for trainees to improve their skills and create more
resources for development of schools.
4. Major solutions:
a/ Regarding organization:
- The ministries, branches and localities shall
screen all their attached job-training establishments, so as to devise solutions
to reorganize them according to their development requirements in terms of
size, structure of trained occupations and jobs and training levels;
- To compile and promulgate the system of legal
documents on standards of schools and criteria for high-quality schools;
elaborate and promulgate conditions and regulations on procedures for
establishing, merging, separating, dissolving and upgrading schools, as well as
regulations on registration of job-training activities;
- To formulate and promulgate policies to
attract job trainers and trainees.
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- To renew and modernize the training programs
and contents along the direction of flexibility and raising of practice skills,
self-employing capability and adaptability with technological changes and
production and business realities, and linked with jobs in the society; work
out modular training programs, thus ensuring the inter-connection of
job-training levels and other training levels in the national education system;
develop high-level job-training contents and programs up to the advanced level
of the region and the world;
- To renovate and modernize teaching and
studying methods, thus promoting personal capacity, enhancing the autonomy and
activeness of trainees;
- To work out a program on development of the
contingent of job trainers: Scaling up the training of job trainers at technical
teachers’ colleges, technical teachers’ universities and technical teachers faculties
at other universities; study the building of a number of job trainers� schools
in regions with great demands; turn out job trainers according to standards;
develop a contingent of guest trainers; provide professional fostering courses
to job trainers once every five years; supplement trainers for a number of new
occupations and jobs, or post-graduate trainers for high-level job-training
programs;
- To promote and intensify various forms of
linking training establishments with production establishments; combine basic
knowledge and skill training at schools with professional skill training at
production and/or business establishments; mobilize experts working at
production, business, educational, scientific and technological establishments
to take part in the elaboration of training contents and programs and appraisal
of training results;
- To build and develop the system for
job-training quality evaluation.
c/ Regarding investment:
- To increase the level of investment from the
State budget; get access to aid sources and loans with preferential interest
rates from international and foreign organizations; mobilize social resources,
especially from enterprises, and various forms of investment cooperation with
foreign parties or 100% foreign capital for job-training development;
concentrate investment in high-quality schools;
- To formulate and promulgate mechanisms and
policies to encourage all economic sectors, units and individuals to set up
job-training establishments.
d/ Regarding management:
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- To enhance the State management over resources
invested in the job training; and renovate the financial management mechanism
with a view to raising investment efficiency;
- To delegate more autonomy to and heighten the
responsibility of schools; and at the same time attach importance to the
inspection, examination and expertise of the quality of various managerial
levels.
5. Implementation schedule:
a/ In the 2002-2005 period:
- The ministries, branches and localities shall
review the training capacity of the existing schools under their respective
management according to the school standards, in order to readjust the training
scale, structure of trained occupations and jobs and training levels suitable
to their training capacity;
- To invest in upgrading job-training material
foundation, machinery, facilities and equipment; renew training programs and
job-training methods; and invest in upgrading 25 existing schools into
high-quality ones;
- To build new job-training schools in the provinces
(cities), where no school is available, and a number of schools in branches and
industrial parks according to their development demands, non-public
job-training establishments and those under enterprises; transform a number of
public job-training establishments into non-public ones, so as to ensure that
by 2005, around 20% of long-term trainees and 84% of short-term trainees shall
be enrolled.
b/ In the 2006-2010 period:
- To build a number of new schools and invest in
building new 15 high-quality schools, in order to raise the number of
high-quality schools to 40 by 2010; and further invest in upgrading, scaling up
and raising job-training the quality of schools;
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Article 2.- Basing itself
on this Decision, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall
coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training, the concerned
ministries and branches, the provinces and centrally-run cities and schools in
working out detailed plans for implementation of the planning; elaborate and
promulgate guiding documents; work out annual implementation plans; sum up the
implementation and report it to the Prime Minister.
Article 3.- This Decision
takes effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 4.- The ministers,
the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached
to the Government and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the
provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision.
FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Pham Gia Khiem