Vietnam has prepared quite early for Fourth Industry Revolution and the Prime Minister issued Directive No. 16/CT-TTg dated May 4, 2017 on strengthening the capacity to approach Fourth Industry Revolution. Currently, vocational education and training system of Vietnam is focusing on building a Vocational Education and Training Development Strategy for the period of 2021-2030 with many important contents to develop an integrated international vocational education and training system and adapt to Fourth Industry Revolution. At the seminar, Dr. Ju, from KRIVET, presented the current situation of implementing the vocational education and training project: Adapting to the Fourth Industry Revolution.

At the workshop, experts from the two countries presented the following topics, including: Vietnam labor market; Vietnamese government's policy on vocational education and training; current status of implementation and application of national occupational skill standards; the reality of vocational education, professions and training programs; vocational education and training qualification system; legal system of vocational education and training.

According to Korean experts, the Korean labor market has been strongly influenced by the 4.0 industrial revolution. Basically, Fourth Industry Revolution, employers demand from workers the essential competencies for the job, including: problem solving competence, soft skills.

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In the future, vocational education and training should focus on building and forming human resources with high social intelligence in order to solve complex problems through cooperation, and also have digital skills to collect and analyze a large amount of information. In addition, Industry 4.0 will change employment structure in Korea. The Korean government has developed a scenario to respond to the 4.0 industrial revolution for economic growth. This changes the structure of employment.

Speaking at the workshop, Ms. Nguyen Thi Viet Huong, Deputy Director General of DVET highly appreciated the preparation work of the Korean side, the active support of the World Bank and KEXIMBANK to held the Workshop. The contents, information and data presented by experts from the two countries at the Workshop will have valuable implications for the development of the next phase of vocational education development strategy. The Deputy General Director thanked the Korean Government for many years for his active support to the development of Vietnam's vocational education and training system and hopes that the cooperation on vocational education and training in the near future.

Source: DVET Office