Decree No. 15/2019/ND-CP detailing the Law on Vocational Education

DECREE

Detailing a number of articles of, and providing measures to implement, the Law on Vocational Education^[1]

Pursuant to the June 19, 2015 Law on Organization of the Government;

Pursuant to the November 27, 2014 Law on Vocational Education;

Pursuant to the November 26, 2014 Law on Investment; and the Law Amending and Supplementing Article 6 of and Appendix 4 to the Law on Investment on the List of conditional investment and business lines;

Pursuant to the November 26, 2014 Law on Enterprises;

At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs;

The Government promulgates the Decree detailing a number of articles of, and providing measures to implement, the Law on Vocational Education.

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

1. This Decree details a number of articles of, and provides measures to implement, the Law on Vocational Education, covering:

a/ Competence for and contents of state management of vocational education;

b/ Permission for establishment, division, separation, merger, dissolution or renaming of foreign-invested vocational education institutions; permission for establishment or termination of operation of divisions of foreign-invested intermediate schools and colleges;

c/ Conditions, competence and procedures for grant of registration certificates of joint training with foreign parties;

d/ Conditions for establishment and termination of operation of Vietnam-based representative offices of foreign vocational education organizations and institutions;

dd/ Conditions, competence and procedures for establishment and recognition of not-for-profit private or foreign-invested vocational education institutions;

e/ Rights and responsibilities of enterprises in vocational education activities.

2. Other forms of international cooperation specified in Article 47 of the Law on Vocational Education must comply with Vietnam’s laws, foreign laws or international agreements and treaties to which Vietnam is a contracting party.

3. Foreign-invested vocational education institutions shall register vocational education activities under the Government’s Decree No. 143/2016/ND-CP of October 14, 2016, prescribing conditions for investment and operation in the field of vocational education, and relevant amending documents. 

4. This Decree does not apply to:

a/ The state management of pedagogic intermediate schools and colleges;

b/ The permission for establishment, division, separation, merger, dissolution or renaming of foreign-invested pedagogic intermediate schools and colleges; permission for establishment or termination of operation of divisions of foreign-invested pedagogic intermediate schools and colleges;

c/ The grant of registration certificates of joint training with foreign parties, for the group of teacher training disciplines falling under the state management by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Article 2. Subjects of application

1. Vocational education centers, intermediate schools and colleges (below collectively referred to as vocational education institutions).

2. Higher education institutions that have registered vocational education for collegial degree, and enterprises that have registered vocational education for primary degree (below collectively referred to as institutions with vocational education activities).

3. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government-attached agencies; socio-political organizations; People’s Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (below collectively referred to as provincial-level People’s Committees); People’s Committees of rural districts, urban districts, towns and provincial cities (below collectively referred to as district-level People’s Committees); and People’s Committees of communes, wards and townships (below collectively referred to as commune-level People’s Committees).

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