Decision No. 48/2002/QD-TTg dated April 11, 2002 of the Prime Minister ratifying the planning on job-training school network for the 2002-2010 period

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;

- To step by step raise the job-training quality, quickly increase the rate of laborers who have been provided with job training, and rectify irrationalities in manpower structure;

- 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;

- Skilled workers: shall be furnished with wide-area or specialized professional knowledge and skills and capable of undertaking complicated jobs;

- 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.

c/ Enrollment scale:

- 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:

- To mobilize all resources for upgrading technical and material bases of the existing job-training schools and establishing new ones; step by step standardize construction space, classroom space, workshop and hostel spaces and investment portion for each study berth; standardize and modernize job-training equipment and devices;

- 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.

b/ Regarding conditions for ensuring training quality:

- 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:

- To strengthen the managerial system; train and foster the contingent of job-training administrators at all levels, thus raising their capability and quality; enhance the work of planning and forecasting manpower demands as well as the State’s role in regulating the training scale and structure;

- 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;

- To develop non-public job-training establishments and establishments under enterprises, so as to ensure that by 2010 around 30% of long-term trainees and 88% of short-term trainees shall be enrolled.

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.