The particularly important role of businesses in vocational education

The National Assembly has passed the Law on Vocational Education. This Law consists of 9 Chapters, 45 Articles and takes effect from the beginning of January 2026.

Accordingly, this Law has completed the legal corridor, ensuring a synchronous and unified legal system on vocational education, suitable to the new development context and international integration requirements, to create a strong change in the quality and effectiveness of vocational education, meeting the needs of learners and the labor market.

The new point of the law is that it has added the model of vocational high schools along with high schools to help the Vietnamese vocational education system comply with UNESCO's international education classification standards.

At the same time, it strengthens the ability to integrate with the education systems of many developed countries. This addition will contribute to completing and standardizing vocational education levels in the Vietnam National Qualifications Framework, creating an important foundation for curriculum design, streaming, articulation and sustainable learner development.

This law also clearly stipulates the position and role of enterprises in vocational education. Accordingly, enterprises play a particularly important role in vocational education, accompanying the State and vocational education institutions in training human resources with vocational skills, meeting the requirements of the labor market.

Enterprises directly implement or participate in vocational education activities according to the provisions of law; enterprises are practice and internship facilities to help learners, lecturers, and teachers access technology, practical production processes and improve professional skills.

The law specifically stipulates the State's policies towards enterprises, encouraging enterprises to cooperate with vocational education institutions in research, application of science and technology, innovation, technology transfer, promoting digital transformation, green transformation in vocational education and vocational skills development.

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The enterprise's human resource training fund is also regulated in the law. The fund helps train and develop skills for enterprise employees, supports enterprise employees in studying and improving professional qualifications; sponsors vocational education institutions that cooperate with enterprises in accordance with the law on enterprises and other relevant laws.

The enterprise's human resource training fund is a fund managed by enterprises, helping enterprises proactively mobilize resources and participate in vocational education activities in a substantive and sustainable manner. The Government will detail the subjects, sources of provision, levels of provision, and expenditure tasks of the enterprise's human resource training fund.

In addition, the Law clearly shows the spirit of decentralization in state management in the field of vocational education, assigning more proactive and autonomous power to the Ministry of Education and Training, provincial level and vocational education institutions.

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