A Study of Career-oriented Education and Training Program in Universities in Sourthern Vietnam : Masters thesis of Business Administration

MEIHO UNIVERSITY

Graduate Institute of Business and Management

MASTERS THESIS

A Study of Career-oriented Education and

Training Program in Universities in

Sourthern Vietnam

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Masters of Business Administration

Advisor: Dr. Chien-Chung Lin

Co-advisor: Dr. Bui Van Danh

Graduate Student: Tran Dinh Duong

December, 2010

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Firstly, I would like to thank to the Board of Directors of Ho Chi Minh City University

of Industry (HUI) and the Board of Directors of Meiho University (MU Taiwan)!

I also would like to sincere thanks to my Advisor, Prof., Dr. Lin, Chien Chung, and

other Professors and Staff at Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Meiho

University (MU Taiwan) for giving me a lot of instruction, advice and helps when I was

participating this EMBA program.

I also would like to thank Dr. Bui Van Danh at Ho Chi Minh City University of

Industry in Vietnam, Lecturer le Nam Hai at HUI’s Branch in Thai Binh province, and PhD’s

candidate Nguyen Quang Vinh at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, for all

useful guidance and encourages when I was doing this study.

Many thanks to the Professors and Staff as well as Classmates at Postgraduate Studies

Department of Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry in Vietnam for valuable and

meaningful supports given for me during the time studying at HUI.

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A Study of Career-oriented Education and Training

Program in Universities in Sourthern Vietnam

ABSTRACT

The training of occupation and technology in higher education in Vietnam, after

several times of reforms plus the birth of the Law on Education and Vocational Training of

2006, has gained some improvements. However, through the experience and the educational

system models of several countries, Vietnam needs to consider perfecting its training system

in a lively, unanimous and updated manner.

To achieve that goal, the immediate task is to define the building of a selective

training model fitted to the development of Vietnam’s education and training, luring students

into occupational and technological training to serve the national industrialization; the

branching must be done in such a manner as to offer students opportunities to have jobs in

many industries, at various levels, with different characteristics, suitable to personal ability

and securing a proportionate ratios in accordance with the social human resource; the

articulation in the training process must be secured; the recognition of defects in trained

products and the re-training must be immediate even in the training process itself; how to

combine the online training, a training method with updated contents, with the traditional

method; and the updating and the renovating of the training curriculum needs to have a

mechanism of inspecting and managing in a such manner that the contents of the training

curriculums may be fitted to social needs.

In order to carry out the tasks and the objectives mentioned above, it is to have a study

of reference materials to gain an overlook of the research, situation issues and the vocational

technical training model in Vietnam, and it is also to refer to the training models of several

countries with their developed education and training, so that it is to build a training model

which will be suitable for training careers and skills in higher education in Vietnam.

Furthermore, questionnaires were sent to 25 administrators of universities, 25 government

officials and 25 business managers.

The data analysis results in conclusion that a model of training careers and skills of

higher education in 3 phases with the selective input examinations being an unlimited

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registration of candidates and the branching even in the process of higher education with a

combination of an articulation from lower up and a horizontal articulation; an immediate re￾training in the higher education process after students have completed the first phase together

with a mechanism of adjusting the training curriculum right after the second phase in

accordance with the labor market, which is appropriate to the current conditions of Vietnam.

Keywords: Education and Training System, Education and Training Management,

Vocational and Techinical Program, Vietnam

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A Study of Career-oriented Education and Training

Program in Universities in Sourthern Vietnam

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS....................................................................................................... I

ABSTRACT..............................................................................................................................II

Contents .................................................................................................................................. IV

Tables...................................................................................................................................... VI

Figures....................................................................................................................................VII

Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1

1.1 Background and Motivation ........................................................................................... 1

1.2 Research Purpose and Objectives ................................................................................... 2

1.3 Research Scope and Limitations..................................................................................... 3

1.4 Definition of Terms ........................................................................................................ 3

Chapter 2 Literature Review..................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Vocational and Technical Education and Training in Vietnam before 1975 ................. 5

2.1.1 The period of French colonialism............................................................................ 5

2.1.2 The period of 1954-1975 in Saigon. ........................................................................ 6

2.1.3 Section summary...................................................................................................... 7

2.2 Vocational and Technical Education and Training in Vietnam after 1975 .................... 7

2.2.1 About the curricula of education and training program........................................... 9

2.2.2 About learner, teaching method, examination and evaluation............................... 11

2.2.3 Traditional model of vocational training at universties since 1975....................... 12

2.2.4 Section summary.................................................................................................... 17

2.3 Vocational and Technical Education and Training in other Countries......................... 18

2.3.1 Vocational and technical education and training in Singapore.............................. 18

2.3.2 Vocational and technical education and training in Malaysia. .............................. 20

2.3.3 Vocational and technical education and training in France................................... 21

2.3.4 Vocational and technical education and training in Britain................................... 21

2.3.5 Section summary.................................................................................................... 22

2.4 The Career-oriented Education and Training Models .................................................. 24