Vietnam's vocational training sector is seeking to fix its long-term problems and develop into a strength.

The funding will focus on energy, environment, and vocational training in the next two years.

A survey conducted at Japanese-invested enterprises found that 100 percent of new engineering graduates in Vietnam have to be retrained for one or two years to satisfy requirements of enterprises.

The new general education programme issued by the Ministry of Education and Training at the end of last year will be applied for the 2020-21 school year.

Two hundred and fifty delegates from 22 countries and territories discussed career development in the era of Industry 4.0 at the 7th APCDA conference that opened on Wednesday in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 31-year-old man from HCM City burst into tears 11 months ago when his daughter visited him for the first time at Detoxification Establishment No 3 in Binh Duong Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Government has issued a series of conditions required to set up a foreign-invested vocational training institution in Vietnam, expected to take effect from March 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Thi Tam, 30, used to think that she would never escape from poverty.

 During the day, the Centre for Mental Illness and National Devotees in the northern province of Hai Duong looks like a busy workshop.

National Assembly deputies raised a host of concerns on Thursday, including the failure to nip wrongful appointments in the bud, the quality of growth and healthcare services, and relevance of training given to workers.

Ministers of labour from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam – agreed to improve their migration management system and share responsibilities in contributing to safe labour migration.

The so-called fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, will provide more development opportunities for businesses but will also require businesses to prepare qualified human resources

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s economic performance in the first five months of the year has been rock steady.

Traditional handicraft villages in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang are facing labour shortages as young people are leaving to work at industrial parks in HCM City and southeastern provinces.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overlapping and poor co-ordination among vocational secondary schools or technical high schools continues to drain the State budget.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Population policies should change from focusing on population and family planning to focusing on population and development,

VietNamNet Bridge – Many farmers who depended on catching fish and other aquatic creatures during the flood season in the Cuu Long Delta have switched to other jobs since the delta has not seen major flooding in recent years.

Despite low tuition and the 100-period (one period of 45 minutes) curriculum, the majority of general school students are not interested in vocational training programs. They attend the vocational classes just to receive bonus marks. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty youths who follow late President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings were honoured at a ceremony in Ha Noi yesterday.