| THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom- Happiness |
| Law No: 38/2005/QH11 | |
EDUCATION LAW
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented following the Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10 of 25/12/2001 of the National Assembly Tenth Legislature, Tenth Session; This Law provides regulations on Education.
Chapter I
GENERAL REGULATIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulations
The Education Law regulates the national educational system; schools, other educational institutions of the national educational system; of state agencies; of political organisations; socio-political organisations; of people's armed forces; organisations and individuals taking parts in educational activities.
Article 2. Goals of education
The goals of educational are to educate the Vietnamese into comprehensively developed persons who possess ethics, knowledge, physical health, aesthetic sense and profession, loyal to the ideology of national independence and socialism; to shape and cultivate one's dignity, civil qualifications and competence, satisfying the demands of the construction and defense of the Fatherland.
Article 3. Characteristics and principles of education
1. The Vietnamese education is a socialist education with popular, national, scientific, and modern characteristics, based on Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's Thoughts.
2. Educational activities must be conducted on the principles of learning coupled with practice, education linked to production, theories connected to practicability, and education at school combined with education in the family and in the society.
Article 4. National educational system
1. The national educational system consists of formal education and continuing education.
2. Educational levels and training qualifications of the national educational system include:
a) Early childhood education with crÌches and kindergartens;
b) General education with primary education, lower secondary education, and upper secondary education;
c) Professional education with professional secondary education and vocational training;
d) Undergraduate and postgraduate education (hereinafter referred to as higher education) with college, undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees.
Article 5. Requirements on contents and methods of education
1. Contents of education must ensure the basic, comprehensive, practical, modern, and systematic characters; with importance attached to ideological and civic conscious education; preserving and developing the good traditions and the national cultural identity, absorbing the essence of the mankind culture; and conforming to the psycho-physiology development of various age groups of learners.
2. Methods of education must bring into full play the activeness, the consciousness, the self-motivation, and the creative thinking of learners; foster the self-study ability, the practical ability, the learning eagerness and the will to advance forward.
Article 6. Educational programme
1. Educational programme shall reflect the goals of education; set the standards for knowledge, skills, scope and structure of educational contents, for methods and forms of organising educational activities, for evaluation methods of educational outcomes for each subject of every grade and level or educational qualifications.
2. Educational programme must ensure the modernity, stability, consistency, and inheritability among different levels and different educational qualifications, facilitating the streaming and transferability among educational qualifications, specialisations and forms of the national educational system.
3. Requirements on knowledge and skill contents defined in the educational programme must be concretised in textbooks used for general education, in syllabi and teaching materials used for professional education, higher education, and continuing education. Textbooks, syllabi and teaching materials must meet the requirements on educational methods.
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