Chương I Nghị định 15/2019/NĐ-CP: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

1. This Decree provides guidelines for some articles and implementation of the Law on Vocational Education, including:

a. Authority and state management pertaining to vocational education;

b. Permit the establishment, division, acquisition, dissolution and name changing of the foreign-invested vocational education institution; permit the branch campus establishment and termination of foreign-invested intermediate schools and colleges;

c. Requirements, authority and procedures for issuance of the Certificate of registration of International Joint Training Program;

d. Requirements for establishment and termination of the representative offices of foreign-invested vocational schools in Vietnam;

dd. Requirements, authority and procedures for establishing and recognizing non-profit private vocational schools and non-profit foreign-invested vocational schools;

e. Rights and obligations of enterprises providing vocational trainings.

2. Other international cooperation forms specified in Article 47 of the Law on Vocational Education shall be applied in accordance with the Vietnamese Law, foreign laws or the agreements or international treaties to which Vietnam is a signatory.

3. Foreign-invested vocational schools shall register for the vocational education activities as specified in the Government's Decree No. 143/2016/ND-CP dated October 14, 2016 on investment and operation conditions pertaining to vocational education and related amendment documents. .

4. This Decree is not applicable to:

a. State management over teacher training vocational schools and teacher training colleges;

b. Permission to establish, divide, merge and dissolve teacher training vocational schools and foreign-invested teacher training colleges, as well as changing their names; the permission to establish and terminate the branch campuses of the schools and colleges thereof;

c. Issuance of Certificate of registration of International Joint Training Program to students of teacher training programs under the state management of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Article 2. Regulated entities

1. Vocational training centers, intermediate schools, colleges (hereinafter referred to as “vocational schools”).

2. Higher educational institutions which register for the vocational education activities at college level, and enterprises which register for the vocational education activities at intermediate level (hereinafter referred to as “vocational education institutions”).  

3. Ministries, ministerial agencies and governmental agencies; socio-political organizations; People’s Committee of provinces and central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as “Provincial People’s Committees); People’s Committees of district, communes and provincial cities (hereinafter referred to as “District People’s Committees”); People’s Committees in communes, wards and villages (hereinafter referred to as "Communal People's Committees).

4. Vietnamese and foreign agencies, organizations, enterprises and individuals that are related to the contents specified in clauses 1, 2 and 3, Article 1 hereof.