| THE GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No: 75/2006/ND-CP | Hanoi, August 02, 2006 |
DECREE
DETAILING AND GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE EDUCATION LAW
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 14, 2005 Education Law;
At the proposal of the Minister of Education and Training,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Governing scope and application subjects
1. This Decree details and guides the implementation of a number of articles of the Education Law regarding educational programs, textbooks and curricula; exams and tests, diplomas and certificates in the national education system; the network, organization, operation, tasks and powers of schools and other educational institutions; policies towards teachers; policies towards learners; education quality accreditation; assurance of financial conditions for education.
2. This Decree applies to schools and other educational institutions in the national education system as well as to organizations and individuals involved in educational activities.
Schools of state agencies, political organizations, socio-political organizations or people's armed force units shall also have to abide by the provisions of this Decree when carrying out educational programs of the national education system.
Article 2.- Universalization of education
1. Universalization of education is a process of organization for every citizen to study and reach a minimum educational level under the State's regulations. Primary education and lower secondary education are educational levels of universalization.
2. People's Committees at all levels shall have to:
a/ Guarantee that all children of 6 years of age be enrolled in grade 1; universalize primary education for the right age groups;
b/ Consolidate and maintain the results of universalization of primary education and fight illiteracy.
c/ Adopt plans and solutions for universalization of lower secondary education.
3. For localities (communes, districts, provinces) which have been recognized as attaining the standards of lower secondary education universalization, the People's Committees at all levels shall have to consolidate and maintain such results; base themselves on the specific conditions of their localities to elaborate plans to attract most lower secondary school graduates into upper secondary schools or professional secondary schools.
4. Annually, educational institutions and administrative units (collectively referred to as units) which have been recognized as attaining the standards of primary education or lower secondary education universalization shall have to check the situation by themselves under the set education universalization standards and send reports thereon to authorities competent to recognize the attainment of such standards.
5. The Ministry of Education and Training shall have to guide, oversee and inspect the universalization of education, sum up the results thereof and report them to the Prime Minister.
Those units which for two consecutive years fail to maintain the results of universalization of education shall have their names deleted from the list of standard-attaining units. The re-recognition of such units shall be considered as for their first-time recognition.
6. Families shall have to create conditions for their members in the defined age groups to study in order to attain the educational levels of universalization.
Article 3.- Career orientation and streaming in education
1. Career orientation in education means a system of measures applied inside and outside schools to help pupils acquire knowledge about and be able to choose careers on the basis of combining their personal aspirations and strong points with the social labor demand.
2. Streaming in education means a measure to organize educational activities on the basis of conducting career orientation, creating conditions for graduates of lower secondary schools and upper secondary schools to further study at higher levels or degrees, to enter professional or vocational secondary schools or join the workforce, in suitability with their capabilities and specific conditions as well as social demands, thus contributing to regulating branch and occupation-based structure of the workforce and meeting the development requirements of the country.
3. The Minister of Education and Training shall direct the formulation of lower secondary and upper secondary programs according to the objectives set in Clauses 3 and 4, Article 27 of the Education Law, attach importance to the renewal of educational contents and methods, concretization of knowledge and skill standards of education of general techniques and career orientation. At lower secondary education level, the contents of career orientation shall be incorporated into study subjects, especially in the technology subject. At the upper secondary education level, the contents of career orientation shall be compiled into a separate subject.
4. The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall guide ministries, branches and provincial-level People's Committees in forecasting and determining the level- and branch-based structure of human resources under the national, regional and local socio-economic development plannings and plans.
5. People's Committees at all levels shall have to forecast and publicize the demand for human resources in their local annual and five-year plans; to formulate specific policies in order to associate training with employment, and direct local education administration agencies to conduct streaming in education with quality and efficiency.
6. Universities, colleges and professional secondary schools shall annually publicize their training degrees and disciplines and apply specific measures to use the results of career orientation at the general education in their enrolment and training process.
7. State agencies, social organizations, socio-professional organizations and economic organizations shall have to create opportunities for general education school pupils to get familiar with their activity environment.
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