26 September, 2019
On 14 June 2019, the National Assembly of Vietnam issued the Law on Education No. 43/2019/QH14 (the “2019 Education Law”) with some highlighted contents as follows:
1. In addition to new provisions on non-profit private schools as one of the types of school in the national educational system, the 2019 Education Law also sets out specified definitions of career orientation, student classification and transferability in education. In particular:
(a) Career orientation in education is a system of measures implemented inside and outside educational institutions to provide students with knowledge about professions and the ability to choose a profession based on a combination of personal desires, fortes and social labour demands;
(b) Student classification is a measure of organizing educational activities on the basis of career orientation in education, enabling lower secondary and upper secondary graduates to continue with their studies in higher educational levels/qualifications or vocational education or to join the labour force with regard to personal capacity, circumstances and social demands, contributing to the regulation of the professional structure following the developing requirements of the country; and
(c) Transferability in education is the act of using available study results to continue studying in other educational levels and qualifications within the same specialization or switching to another specialization, mode of education and training qualification with corresponding content requirements, ensuring transferability between educational levels and training qualifications of general education, vocational education and higher education.
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Students at pedagogical institutions are supported with tuition and living expenses throughout the entirety of the course. Two years after graduation, if persons that receive the subsidies do not work in the field of education or fail to work in education for a sufficient duration, they will have to reimburse the State for the subsidies. The maximum time limit for reimbursement is equal to the training duration.
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Requirement for qualification of teachers are as follows:
(a) Teachers of preschool: must possess at least a pedagogical college diploma; and
(b) Teachers of primary school, secondary school and high school: must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy training.
Students at primary education level in public educational institutions are not required to pay tuition. Pre-school children at 5 years of age in villages and communes with exceptional difficulties, ethnic minority areas, remote and isolated areas, coastal areas and islands shall be exempted from tuition.
The 2019 Education Law will take effect from 1 July 2020.
For further information, please contact:
Dang The Duc, Partner, Indochine Counsel
duc.dang@indochinecounsel.com
