Online teaching of foreign languages: Need to open a training center?

Learning foreign languages take important roles in daily life, studying, and business in many forms. Online learning is a popular form for everybody. So, do online teaching of foreign languages need to open a training center?

What are the conditions for online teaching of foreign languages?

The teaching of foreign languages is under two forms: online teaching and offline teaching in training centers. These two forms are prescribed in Decree No. 46/2017/ND-P (Amended and supplemented by Decree No. 135/2018/ND-CP) or collectively referred to as teaching through a foreign language center.

In accordance with the regulations prescribed in Article 48, Decree No, 46/2017/ND-CP (amended and supplemented by Clause 21, Article 1, Decree No. 135/2018/ND-CP), the operational conditions of the foreign language training center are as follows:

1. Employs the staff system of manager, teacher, and employee to meet the required standard and operational requirements of the center

2. Possesses appropriate constructional establishment, teaching equipment, program and documents, adequate funding, ensures the training quality in accordance with the development and improvement plans as well as the operational scale of the center.

The application for setting up a foreign language training center are as follows:

• The request form for the establishment of the foreign language and computer training center;
• The proposal for the establishment of the foreign language and computer training center specifies the following contents as: The center's name, type, location, necessity, and legal grounds for the establishment of the center; objectives, functions, and missions of the center; training curriculum and scale; facilities of the center; organizational structure, Director or Vice Director (if any) of the center, teams (or specialized divisions); CV of the recommended Director of the center
• The draft statutes of operations of the foreign language and computer training center.

Does the online teaching of foreign languages need to open a training center?

As mentioned above, one of the conditions for the operation of a foreign language center is to have facilities and equipment for teaching; Additionally, it is also required to have a project clearly stating the name of the center, the location of the center ...in the application for setting up a foreign language training center.

Therefore, online teaching of foreign languages must have infrastructure and location...or must open a foreign language training center.