SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT EDUCATION AND TRAINING CONCERNING THE LABOUR MARKET IN VIETNAM

Issues of education and training concerning the labour market now 1.. ATTAINMENT OF EDUCATION Vietnam has achieved the Millennium Development Goals MDGS on education for all:  Comple

SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT EDUCATION AND TRAINING CONCERNING THE LABOUR MARKET IN VIETNAM

Dr Nguyen Ba Can Deputy General Director Department of Facilitates Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam

I Overview Vietnam education and training system

1 Briefly Vietnam profile

2 Attainment of education and training sector

3 Policy and strategy by 2020

II Issues of education and training concerning the

labour market now

1 From education and training side

2 From labour market side

3 Main messages and directions for reform

BRIEFLY VIETNAM PROFILE

VIETNAM LABOUR FORCE

(age of male 15-60; female 15-55)

Total (2010) : 56.7 mils (65.2% population);

ATTAINMENT OF EDUCATION

 Literacy of population aged 15 and over increased from 87.3% in 1989 to 93.5% in 2009 and about 94.0% in

2010 ;

ATTAINMENT OF EDUCATION

 Vietnam has achieved the Millennium Development

Goals (MDGS) on education for all:

 Completed universalisation of PE in 2000 and LSE in 2010;

 Average schooling year of population aged 15 and older in 2010 around 9.6 years;

Social equity in access to education, especially for ethnic minorities, children of poor families, girls and disadvantages, improved a lot

ATTAINMENT OF EDUCATION

 Gross enrollment of TVET and tertiary education has experienced strong growth since 2005

0 500000

VIETNAM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Implementing universalisation of primary and lower

secondary education whole country;

Ensuring learning need and long-life learning of all

young people and adults ; building a learning society;;

Achieving gender equality;

Ensuring all vulnerable and disadvantaged children and children in difficult circumstances and ethnic minorities have access to and complete, free and compulsory basic education of quality

VIETNAM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Ensuring all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes

Expand the network of TVET to meet the training needs

of employees and towards universal vocational training and

to our youth

Promote cooperation between HE establishments and research organizations and enterprises.;

VIETNAM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

 Completing universal access to early childhood

education for children 5 years of age in 2015;

Percentage of correct age in general education by 2020:

Lower secondary level: 95%;

Upper secondary and equivalent: 80%;

 70% disability children in school by 2020.

VIETNAM EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY BY 2020

 New enrollment capacity of schools TVET, professional

and universities about 30% total students completed LSE and equivalent levels;

Number of labourer trained TVET and tertiary about

70% of total labour force;

 Number student of TVET and tertiary about 350 – 400 per 10.000 populations;

 Comprehensive and fundamental renewing towards

standardisation, modernisation, socialisation and

international integration to strengthen the quality and efficiency of the system.

ISSUES OF EDUCATION AND LABOUR MARKET NOW

 Poor outcomes:

 System is not synchronous, lack of integration

among levels;

 Low basic skills acquisition;

 Unequal access to education for poor, disabled

and ethnic minority; children;

 School’s infrastructure and teaching aids are lack

and out of date;

 Focus on narrow disciplinary;

1 Education and training side

 Enrollment of TVET and tertiary education still too

low

Structure of labour force of Vietnam by qualification in 2010

86.7%

Lack of training programs to equip students with the necessary qualities required of employers:

Lack of suitability between the needs of businesses with program design

 Many teaching staff is not exposed to the work environment ;

 Very few companies cooperate closely with TVET and institutions of tertiary education

Policy factors such as over-reliance on private tuition and u

tuition and under investment…

2 Labour market side

 Lack of labour supply-demand information

 No transparency of recruitment

High unemployment rate;

 Incomplete legal system;

Employees working mainly in agriculture and informal structure sectors with low productivity and high risk

Large separation between urban and rural, dynamic economic region and underdevelopment ;

Weak labour market governance ;

Wage determinant and salary inequality

LINKAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WITH LABOUR MARKET

 Reforming levels of general education

Revising curriculum, renewing teaching methods and assessment of the quality;

Strengthening institutions;

Reforming organisation;

Development of teachers, managers and administrators

 Increasing investment and funding

finance;

 Expanding equity and ensure equality;

 Enlarging equity and equality;

 Expanding improving the efficiency of international cooperation;

LINKAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WITH LABOUR MARKET

Reform of higher education

Improve quality of higher education and expand its size to attain a target of 350-400

LINKAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WITH LABOUR MARKET

Shift to a system of credit-based courses;

Finalise the higher education quality assurance and accreditation system;

Reach agreements on certification and degrees with other countries in the region and elsewhere;

 Establish international-class universities.

LINKAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WITH LABOUR MARKET

LINKAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WITH LABOUR MARKET

Enterprise directly participate into development of teaching staff and curricular based on technical

standards and skills; identification of job

categories, design of training courses and

assessment of students, etc

Providing information on supply-demand of skill workers; notify requirement on qualification,

quantity, ability and capacity of recruited

employee to TVET institutions

employee to TVET institutions;

The government establishes the labour market

information network to link training institutions

with labour users in provinces and cities as well as the whole country

the whole country;

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

FOR ATTENTION