Dossier of permit for foreign capital short-term training and retraining activities in Vietnam

Short-term training and fostering institution means a foreign capital educational institution including centers for training and fostering foreign languages, informatics, culture, skills, expertise and professional skills, including training and fostering establishments issued by foreign diplomatic missions,  intergovernmental international organizations permitted to operate in Vietnam shall be established. Accordingly, Decree 86/2018/ND-CP dated June 06^th 2018 has specified conditions and procedures for allowing operation as follows:

Legal basis

• WTO Commitments
• Investment Law 2020
• Enterprise Law 2020
• Education Law 2014 and Amended in 2019
• Decree 86/2018/ND-CP on foreign cooperation and investment in the field of education;

Conditions for permitting educational activities in Vietnam

• There is a decision allowing the establishment of an educational institution or an investment registration certificate and an enterprise registration certificate for short-term training and retraining institutions.
• Having investment capital, facilities, equipment, educational programs, teachers meeting the regulations referring to the conditions in the article
• There are regulations on organization and operation of the educational institution.

Dossiers of permission for educational activities in Vietnam

A dossier of permission for educational activities includes:

• Application for registration of educational activities in the prescribed form
• A certified copy or a copy enclosed with the original for comparison of the decision permitting the establishment of a foreign capital educational institution; certified copy or copy enclosed with the original for comparison of the Investment Registration Certificate and the Enterprise Registration Certificate for foreign capital short-term training and retraining institutions.
• Regulations on organization and operation of educational institutions.
• Report on the progress of investment projects, capital contribution, loans, total investment capital implemented.
• A report explaining whether the educational institution or its branch has met the prescribed contents, and enclosed:
• List of rectors (directors), vice rectors (deputy directors), heads of faculties, departments, departments and chief accountants. For a dossier of application for a license for educational activities of a branch of a higher education institution, it is necessary to supplement the list of officials in charge of the branch and its structure and organizational apparatus;
• List and personal resumes of staff, teachers and lecturers (organic, visiting lecturers);
• Description of education level, training level, training discipline;
• Curricula, teaching plans, learning materials, catalogs of textbooks and key references;
• Subjects of enrollment, regulations and time of enrollment;
• Training regulations;
• Scale of training (pupils, students, trainees);
• Regulations on tuition fees and related fees;
• Regulations on examination, evaluation and recognition of completion of subject programs, modules and training levels;
• Samples of diplomas and certificates will be used.

Authority to authorize the operation in Vietnam

The director of provincial-level education and training departments shall permit educational activities for short-term training and retraining institutions.

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