This expert meeting of the ESSSA initiative will provide a unique opportunity to share international experience in addressing the issue of skills mismatch as a way to contribute to more inclusive growth and good quality job creation across Southeast Asian countries.

1. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
IN VIETNAMESE
LOGO
SMEs

2. MAIN CONTENT
1
51
General information- VN’s V.T
General 2 information-VN’s SMEs
3 Real situation and reasons
43 Objectives
5 Solutions

4. 1. LAW ON VOCATIONAL TRAINING
- Chapter 1. General provisions
- Chapter II. Levels in vocational training
- Chapter III. Vocational trainee intake,
vocational training contract, test and
examination
- Chapter IV. Vocational training institutions
- Chapter V. Authorities and obligations of
enterprise in vocational training

5. 1. LAW ON VOCATIONAL TRAINING
- Chapter VI. Vocational Trainers and trainees
- Chapter VII. Vocational training for the
disabled people
- Chapter VIII. Quality accreditation for V.T
- Chapter IX. Assessing and certifying national
work skills
- Chapter X. State management of V.T
- Chapter XI. Enforcement

6. 2. NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Universities VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Colleges Vocational colleges
Upper secondary school
Vocational secondary
schools
Lower secondary school
Vocational training
Centers
Primary School
Professional secondary
school
Kindergartens
Crèches

7. 3. VOCATIONAL TRAINING QUALIFICATION
LEVELS
Vocational Colleges
Vocational Colleges
Vocational Secondary Schools
Vocational Colleges
Vocational Secondary Schools
Vocational Training Centers
DIPLOME LEVEL
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
ELEMENTARY LEVEL

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LEVEL 1 11
Certificate 1
LEVEL 2
Certificate 2
LEVEL 3
Certificate 3
LEVEL 5
Certificate 5
LEVEL 4
Certificate 4

9. 5. STATE MANAGEMENT
ON OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT
ACTIVITIES
 Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
General Department of Vocational Training
Occupational Skills
Department
NOSACs
NOSACs
NOSACs NOSACs
NOSACs
NOSACs

11. 11.. NNUUMMBBEERRSS OOFF SSMMEEss
 > 500.000 SMEs
 > 97% of all enterprises in VN
 > 9,500,000 employees
 > 500,000 new workplaces/year
 51% of employees all over the country
 > 40% GDP
 30% national budget
 30% export value

12. 2. ROLE OF SMEs IN VIETNAM
- Contribute to the main development of
national economy
- Keep the key sector for solving social
security issue (job creation, poverty
reduction)
- Contribute to improving skills of labour

13. SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN SMEs

14. 1. OCCUPATIONAL SKILL IN SMEs
-> Employer:
• 55,63% Intermediate level or lower
• Almost of them are not be trained on:
- Economic knowlege
- Enterprise management
- Legal documents in the field of
businessment
-> Employee:
• 75% have not been trained

15. 2. CONSEQUENCES
• Low production, business effeciency
• A huge inventories
• No capital to reinvest
• Facing the risk of bankruptcy

16. 3. REASONS
1. Legal document system
2. The awareness of SMEs
3. The limitation of information
4. The ability to assess the capital, credit
5. The internal capacity of SMEs

18. 1. OVERALL OBJECTIVES
Until 2020:
- VT will meet labor market demand in terms of quantity,
quality, occupation structure and training qualifications;
- Training quality of some occupations will reach the level
of developed countries in the ASEAN region and of the
world;
- Build up skilled manpower contributing to increasing
national competitiveness;
- To universalizing vocational training for laborers, to
transferring labor structure, increasing income,
sustainably reducing poverty, ensuring social security.

19. 2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Provide vocational training in order to increase the rate
of vocational trained labor to 40%, equivalent to 23.5
million people in 2015 and to 55% in 2020, equivalent to
34.4 million people
- Period 2011 – 2015: new training for 9.6million people
- Period 2016 – 2020: new training for 12.9 million
people;
- To 2015, there will be 190 vocational colleges, 300
vocational secondary schools, 920 vocational training
centers; To 2020, there will be 230 vocational colleges,
310 vocational secondary schools, 1050 vocational
training centers

20. 2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Develop national occupational qualification framework; to
2015, promulgate 650 sets of national occupational skill
standards; Period 2011-2015, organize assessment,
certification of national occupational skills for about
2million people and about 6million people in period 2016-
2020.
Complete labor market system, attach / link vocational
training with job placement.

22. 1. IMPROVE V.T LEGAL FRAMEWORK
 Improving system in vocational training
Training system by
supply orientation
based on huge
demand of society
Training system by
demand orientation
of labour market -
Strengthening the
involvement of
SMEs in V.T

23. Strengthening the involvement of SMEs in V.T
(on V.T Law revised)
• Article 55: Rights
- Receive tax exemption, tax reduction, tax rate
incentives, tax exemption and reduction time, deduction
to taxable income under the provisions of law
• Article 56: Responsibilities
- Organize vocational training activities or contract
vocational training institutions to train learners of levels
required by the enterprises
- Organize further training on occupational skills for
labourers working at the enterprises

24. 1. IMPROVE V.T LEGAL FRAMEWORK
 Improving training program in vocational training
Trainng program by
school year, less
flexibility in
implementation
Training program
based on
occupational
competency with
flexible module
structure

25. 1. IMPROVE V.T LEGAL FRAMEWORK
 Improving assessment in vocational training
Assess the result of
trainees based on
content of training
course
Assess the result of
trainees through
occupational skill
standard required in
working place –
develop national
occupational
qualification
framwork

26. Develop national occupational
qualification framework
- Develop a national occupational qualification framework
in relation with the national educational qualification
framework.
- Complete the national occupational skill framework.
- Promulgate national occupational skill standards for
popular occupations.
- Receive and transfer (adapt) sets of occupational skill
standards of focal occupations of regional and
international levels.
- Develop curriculum frames.

27. 2. EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION LEGAL DOCs
1. Reform state management in vocational training
2. Development of vocational training teachers and
managers
3. Development of national occupational qualification
framework
4. Development of training curricular and textbooks
5. Strengthening of infrastructure and equipment in
vocational training
6. Quality control and assurance in vocational training

28. 3. OTHER SOLUTIONS
• Change the awareness of SMEs
• Improve the information, database system
• Support SMEs to assess the capital
• Enhance the capacity of SMEs