Building up a tripartite model among Academies – Industries – Government for skills development and acceleration of the industrialization in Vietnam

Understanding an importance of highly-skilled industrial human resources for the country’s next stage of industrialization which requires more value added processes with stronger supporting industries, the Government of Vietnam has been issuing various policies and implementing projects to support human resource development in terms of training, industry and society. However, it appears that those supports have not caught up with the demands; especially the lack of competent technicians is an immediate concerns. In order to reduce the mismatch of skills demands and supply at the technician level, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, higher education (HE) institutions and their supervisory ministries have been aware of the necessity to improve training programs based on industry skills demands. However, this training concept has not implemented yet even the education and training institutions pay attention to improve training programs based on the needs of industry. They need supports from industry and the Government. In order to become a highly-skilled economy, it is necessary to formulate social partnerships between stakeholders consisting of TVET-, HE institutions, industry, and the Government.  This proposal aims to build up an effective model of social partnership among training, enterprise, and government sectors for engineer and technician skills development and acceleration of industrialization in Vietnam. Read more...