DECISION

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THE PRIME MINISTER

Following the proposal of the Minister of Education and Training,

DECIDES:

Article 1. Approval of a master plan on information technology HRD through 2015 and orientation towards 2020 with the following key content:

I. DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

1. Development of Information Technology (hereafter referred to as IT) Human Resource Development (HRD) is a key requirement, determining IT development and application. The IT HRD must meet requirements of quality, synchronization with a focus on increase of highly skilled human resource.

2. IT HRD must be closely linked with education and training transformation, especially in higher education. Basic and comprehensive transformation of IT HRD should be done under integration orientation to achieve regional and international levels, creating systematic changes in education quality, meeting IT development requirement of the country, of the industrialization and modernization process and international economic integration.

3. Facilitation of socialization and international cooperation, leveraging every local resource and attracting foreign investment for IT HDR.

4. Determination of scale, structure, curriculum, material edition and provision supporting education and training at various education levels, degrees, with student enrollment meeting demand of the society, local and overseas demands. Staff productivity, quality and effectiveness after graduation and working in organizations and enterprises are taken as basis for assessment of deliverables and quality of IT human resource education.

II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES THROUGH 2015

1. General objectives  

a) Strong development of IT human resource (in this decision, IT human resource is seen as human resource for IT, electronics and telecommunication education; professionals of IT electronics and telecommunications working in enterprises and industries; human resource for IT application in organizations and enterprises; staff and every citizen who use IT) ensures having adequate IT human resource catering IT, electronics, telecommunication development and application demand to support a knowledge economy and information society, industrialization, modernization and international economic integration process of the country.

b) Acceleration of IT application in education and training, modernization, improvement of efficiency and competitive advantages of the IT HRD’s education system, for our IT human resource education level and approaching the level with capability to join international IT human resource education market, thus, gradually becoming one of the countries that provide high quality IT human resource for other countries regionally and internationally.

2. Specific objectives

a) Creation of a breakthrough transformation in terms of IT human resource education. Education of IT, electronics and telecommunication at universities to achieve advanced level and quality in South East Asia region; About 30% of IT, electronics and telecommunication graduates have required industries’ expertise and foreign language capabilities to participate in international labor market right after their graduation.

b) Ensuring that 100% of middle professional education (12+2) and vocational training students educated on IT application skills. By the end of 2010, 100% university, college students, high school pupils, 50% of secondary school pupils and 20% of primary school pupils are educated in IT and by 2015 to achieve having 100% secondary school pupils and 80% of primary school pupils to be educated in IT;

c) Strengthening of education, training and building up an IT teacher pool for primary education institutions, acceleration of IT application in teaching and education management at all educational levels. 65% of the teachers have IT application capability to support education and training activities;

d) Strengthening of IT, electronics and telecommunication lecturers and teachers at universities, colleges, middle professional education with higher quality and quantity. At universities and colleges, an average rate of 15 to 20 students per IT lecture is maintained; 70% of IT lecturers at university and over 50% of IT lectures at colleges must have master degree or higher; quickly increase the number of lecturers who possess doctorate degrees; by the end of 2015, 100% of lectures and teachers and students at universities, colleges, tertiary education, secondary school to have their own computers.

đ) Ensure having adequate human resource to support development of enterprises in IT and telecommunication industries. From now through 2015, provision of 250.000 IT, electronics and telecommunication staffs who have professional education and one year professional training certificate or higher, of which, 50% having college and university degrees and 5% having master degree or higher;

e) Strengthening IT knowledge and IT application popularization. Ensuring that most of the government staff is trained on IT application and using that in their jobs;

g) Education of dedicated IT staffs having college degrees up to support operation of state organizations, political-social organizations, R&D institutions, universities, colleges, and dedicated staffs having professional tertiary education degree up in primary and secondary education institutions. IT expertise training for leaders and executives at ministries, industries, provinces and cities under central government to meet expertise requirement regulated in Decree number 64/2007/NĐ-CP dated April 10^th 2007 of the Government.

III. DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATION TOWARDS 2020

1. Building up an IT human resource which has adequate quality and capability to master modern technology and techniques, with reasonable mechanisms, spontaneously and frequently meeting demand of the information society and knowledge economy. It’s targeted at ensuring sufficient IT human resource for market demands domestically and a part of overseas markets. Continuously improve awareness, popularization of knowledge and IT application and services application skills for the whole society. By 2020, 70% of staffs in enterprises are educated in IT.

2. Improving quality and quantity of IT, electronics and telecommunications teachers and lectures in universities, colleges, professional tertiary and training institutions. By 2020, more than 90% of university IT lectures and over 70% of college IT lectures have master degree up, over 30% of university lectures have doctorate degree.

3. Strengthening education, training and building up an IT teaching teachers for primary education institutions. By 2020, all of pupils in popular educational institutions and other educational institutions are trained with IT knowledge and applicatiosn.

IV. SOLUTIONS

1. Innovation on educational curriculums, content, methodology and procedure in order to improve IT human resource educational quality.

a) IT education in universities, colleges is undertaken well in accordance with Decree No. 14/2005/NQ-CP dated November 02^nd 2005 of the Government on basically and comprehensively transforming tertiary education of Vietnam for the period from 2006 to 2020;

b) Building up and frequent update of IT educational curriculums, ensuring interconnection between educational levels, increasing reality of the curriculum and increase of practices in IT subjects, elimination of out-of-date curriculums and subjects, or subjects that do not meet or do not appropriate for practical requirements. Establishment of e-mail-based forums to get feedbacks from alumni and IT labor employers on content of the curriculums. Encouragement of students to participate in professional training and certificates provided by international organizations and multi-national groups in IT and telecommunications;

c) Universities and colleges to select and to receive on a selective basis and implement education under world advanced IT curriculums practically;

d) Strongly renew educational curriculums, content and methodology for IT teacher training in pedagogy schools; strengthening of teaching on IT application in teaching and learning, application of advanced educational technologies;

đ) Building up an IT educational curriculum on a knowledge module basis, updated with new technologies and implementation of education to meet learner’s demand. Application of this curriculum to various educational levels and regular training.

2. Expansion of scale and forms of IT education

a) Creation of favorable conditions for setting up appropriate IT educational institutions in order to meet IT human resource education at various levels;

b) Expansion of scale and formats of IT education at IT educational institutions;

c) Expansion of education scale, together with improvement of IT education quality of regular training institutions. Issuance of appropriate policies and mechanisms in order to accelerate connection education at various level of IT education;

d) Acceleration of enterprise ordered and society demand-based education. Encouragement and creation of favorable conditions for education integration between IT human resource employers and educators. Development of models and formats of education collaboration, cooperation and support to meet enterprise and society demand;

đ) Continuation of 2^nd degree education on IT;

e) Strengthening of teaching and improvement of computer usage and IT application skills for students in all majors;

g) Acceleration of distance education via network to cater all of the training methods. Stipulation of conditions for network-based distance education, recognition of network-based distance education degrees and certificates together with network-based education inspection and certification for all of the education levels.

3. Socialization of IT popularization for the whole society.

a) Encouraging organizations, individuals domestically and internationally to participate in education and training of IT human resource in various formats. Attraction and creation of favorable conditions for universities, scientists overseas to cooperate and to participate in IT teaching in Vietnam;

b) Organizations and enterprises to have regular education and training plans on IT for their staffs; implementation of IT application education programs for executives and management of the organizations and enterprises; there are also IT project formulation, implementation, management and monitor education and training programs for IT dedicated staffs;

c) Formulation of solutions to attract available resources in the society to cater for IT human resource education. Fully leverage the role on implementation, encouragement and monitor of political, social, professional organizations in every activities regarding IT human resource education.

4. Acceleration of investment in IT human resource development

a) The State puts priorities on budget investment in IT, electronics and telecommunication human resource education via programs and projects of this master plan and via other educational plans and projects;

b) Utilization of yearly state budget to spend on scientific and technology tasks in order to implement IT research and IT application deployment;

c) Creation of favorable conditions for domestic and overseas investors to setup IT human resource education institutions under regulations, investing in IT human resource education based on an IT service-based approach. There are policies for educational institutions to get privilege in IT education activities, comparable to what the software processing enterprises are getting;

d) Acceleration of investment in infrastructure and facility, curriculums, materials and network supporting IT, electronics, telecommunication education and application of IT in all of educational institutions. Priority is placed on a number of key IT, electronics and telecommunication education institutions achieving regional and international advanced level;

đ) There are policies on fees contribution from learners;

e) Priority is placed on investment in education institutions in remote, mountainous and island areas and regions with special difficulties;

g) Encouragement of vendors to develop programs on manufacturing and providing computers and Internet connection at privileged price for teachers, students and pupils. By 2015, 100% of university and college lectures, 90% of high school, professional tertiary education centers teachers and students having private computers. Study to promulgate policies on loans or support for computer purchase of teachers and students;

h) Making use of ODA capital to invest in IT human resource education, setting up of education network and high quality educational institutions.

5. Acceleration of English teaching and IT teaching in English and other language.

a) Through implementation of foreign language teaching program for the period 2009 – 2020 to encourage universities to deliver lectures in English for IT, electronics, telecommunications subject; inviting foreign lecturers and Vietnamese overseas experts to deliver lecture in English face-to-face or via network on IT related subjects; selection and using IT teaching and learning materials in English; having policies to encourage and privilege for students who do their thesis in English or other languages; using bilingual language in editing and announcing educational curriculums;

b) Paying special attention for English education and knowledge improvement for IT, electronics, telecommunications lectures in educational institutions for them to be able to deliver lectures in English. Improving English education quality for foreign language lecturers and teachers at IT human resource education institutions.

c) Encouragement of leveraging other foreign languages in IT education.

6. Leverage open source software in teaching and education.

Educational institutions to exploit and to leverage open source software in education-related activities; formulation of curriculum and education content, teaching materials and research projects based on open standards; implementation of graduation thesis based on exploitation of open source software; using open source in office operation and education activities. Starting from September 20011, 100% educational institutions mainly use open source software in education, teaching and application.

7. Development of education network (EduNet)

a) Deployment of broadband Internet access and leased lines via optical cables to all of the educational management bodies and educational institutions.

b) Construction of an education network data center;

c) Deployment of an educational information portal containing digital content, educational resource pools on the Internet. Construction, selection and purchase digital libraries on books, text books, reference materials, etc. catering teaching, learning and R&D activities;

d) Application of education technologies, electronics teaching and learning (e-Learning). Formulation of content, curriculums, materials and deployment of training courses under the e-Learning model. Start studying deployment of M-Learning and U-Learning;

đ) Strengthening yearly IT education and training for teachers, educational institution management, students, pupils via networks to save time, costs with high education effectiveness.

8. Acceleration of IT teaching and IT application in high, secondary and primary schools.

a) Continuation of IT subject teaching, improving IT utilization skills for pupils at various levels;

b) Update education curriculums and content under an orientation of modern knowledge modules that are practical, instead of using fixed IT education curriculums and text books;

c) Acceleration of IT application in popular schools to transform teaching and learning methods under the orientation of enabling teachers to integrate IT into each subject instead of learning IT in a separate subject. Subject matter teachers edit and select materials and software (open source) to teach IT application;

d) Strengthening education and training of IT teaching staffs to meet requirements on It teaching and application in teaching, firstly at high school level;

đ) Formulation and promulgation standards on IT knowledge and application skills for teachers and education institution management.

9. Other solutions

a) Building up a database on IT science and technology officials domestically and Vietnamese overseas experts, in order to cater policies on attracting good IT scientists domestically and internationally to participate in IT research, development and education in tertiary education institutions in Vietnam;

b) Organizing forums on IT, electronics and telecommunications human resource education in order to meet demand on introduction, contribution and cooperation between universities and IT, electronics, telecommunications enterprises and other economic organizations;

c) Having privilege and salary incentives for teachers who are good at IT application, e-learning material creation, and those who achieve standard level of IT skills.

10. Budgeting:

Estimated budget from state budget for implementation of the master plan for the period 2009 – 2015 is approximately VND 900 billion ($50 million.)

The determination of capital structure and specific budgeting will be undertaken by ministries, industries and localities during the course of specific projects formulation to implement assigned tasks of the master plan.

V. IMPLEMENTATION

1. The Ministry of Education and Training is responsible for:

a) Concretize this master plan into programs, plans and investment projects to direct and implement at various levels following defined objectives and solutions. Instructs education institutions to devise implementation plans to be submitted for approval and implementation;

b) Direction and implementation organization on renovation of IT education curriculums, IT application education programs in verticals;

c) Standardization of IT educational level for the society: formulation and promulgation of knowledge standard system for various IT education levels, regulation on operating condition and certification on IT, formulation of an IT knowledge testing system;

d) Devise and promulgation or submission to authorities to promulgate mechanisms, policies to accelerate IT human resource education;

đ) Building up an IT application master plan in education and plan for implementation of education network;

e) Formulation of specific plans and direction on IT lecturer and teacher training task implementation. Popularization of IT knowledge and IT application skills for teachers, lecturers and education management staffs. Education and training for IT dedicated staffs in education sector.

g) Direction on IT training for students and pupils with the objective of ensuring It training for practically train IT for students, pupils to meet social demand;

h) An education support and human resource provision center under Ministry of Education an Training is the contact point to receive requests and support implementation for enterprises, organization on a contract basis, especially for the foreign invested projects and contracts for provision of high quality IT human resource;

i) Collaboration with the Ministry of Labor, Disabled Veteran and Welfare to organize yearly national conference on IT human resource education to summarize yearly implementation results, awarding high quality education institutions that provide a lot of IT human resource to the society, awarding enterprises who contribute greatly into IT human resource education, support in signing of education contracts.

2. the Ministry of Labor, Disabled Veteran and Welfare is responsible for:

Professional training on IT, electronics and telecommunications with an objective of 100.000 people having professional college degrees, training certificates in IT, electronics and telecommunications. IT application in training institutions.

Aggressively implementation of IT training under contracts between education institutions and enterprises and the organizations that have demand on IT human resource.

3. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for:

a) Taking lead and collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication to devise and to promulgate job titles, job description, tasks and requirements of CIO in state agencies;

b) Collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training to build up popularization programs on computer and Internet usage for state agency and political-social organization staffs;

c) Formulation and promulgation before 2010 of the following: privilege to CIO in state agencies. Privilege on working condition, and knowledge improvement for IT dedicated staffs.

4. The Ministry of Information and Communication is responsible for;

Taking lead in building up an information system catering IT human resource demand and carrying out assessment on IT human resource situation with an objective to support IT human resource development. Implementation of IT labor market research and forecast, supporting education institutions, organizations and units who use IT human resource.

5. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for:

Taking lead and cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Education and Training to balance and to summarize human resource supported by stare budget to deploy yearly.

Article 2. Responsibilities of Ministries and Localities.

1. The Ministry of Education and Training takes lead and cooperates with the Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance to formulate and implement 5 year plans and responsible for yearly reports on IT human resource education in universities, colleges, professional training institutions; plans for IT teaching in schools; briefing on yearly implementation of the master plan and a summary report in the final year.

2. The ministries assigned with the above tasks in Part V, Article 1 of this Decision are responsible for formulation of investment plans, implementation plans and immediately undertake certain activities right from 2009.

3. Ministries, ministerial equivalent bodies, government bodies, people’s committee of cities and provinces under central authorities based on this Master Plan and Plan for IT application in state agencies approved for long term and yearly to devise and implement plans for IT education and training for their staffs. People’s committees of cities and provinces under central authorities to formulate and implement IT knowledge popularization in organizations and people in their locality.

4. Political-social organizations, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youths, Vietnam Women Association, social and professional organization to collaborate with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Information and Communication, people’s committees of cities and provinces under central authority in acceleration of IT knowledge popularization in the whole society.

5. Enterprises to actively organize IT education and training for their staffs and participate in catering the society’s demand.

6. Education and training institutions, based on the master plan to devise long-term plans and yearly plans to actively implement their human resource education, improving education quality to meet society’s demand.

Article 3. This decision shall be of full force and effect on the date of promulgation signing.

This decision replaces Decision No. 331/QĐ-TTg dated April 06^th 2004 of the Premier Minister on approval of IT human resource development program through 2010. Other regulations in contradiction with this Decision are invalid.

Article 4. Ministers, heads of ministerial equivalent bodies and Government bodies, and chairmen of the provinces and cities under central authority and heads of related organizations shall be responsible for the implementation of this Decision.

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