In March 2017, DVET visited and worked in New Zealand on vocational education and training. Although New Zealand is a country with a small population size, the social economy is very developed with world-leading indicators of transparency, anti-corruption, innovation, and future education index. ... New Zealand's vocational education and training system is very flexible and responds to the labor market with close cohesion between vocational education and training institutions and enterprises. New Zealand’s experience in vocational education and training development and occupational skills is worth studying for Vietnam and applying appropriate development of Vietnam's vocational education system. Director General Truong Anh Dung highly appreciated and thanked Ambassador Wendy Matthews for the close cooperation for the two sides to sign Signing Ceremony of a Cooperation Agreement. With the success in COVID-19 disease prevention of the two countries, this is a good opportunity for the two sides to strengthen and concretize the relationship of vocational education and training in the future.

New Zealand with a strong development of the vocational education and training system with close association with businesses provides the necessary skills for employees to help them succeed in the future. The New Zealand Government always wants to share with New Zealand the challenges and experiences in vocational education and training development of Vietnam, thereby helping Vietnam develop vocational education and training and formulate skilled human resources power. At the same time, I would like to learn about the experiences of vocational education development of the Government of Vietnam.

The Vietnamese side proposed New Zealand to cooperate, support Vietnam with some contents on vocational education in the coming time such as the official development assistance program; exchanging support to formulate policies on vocational education; support fostering managerial staff, vocational educators; supporting the cooperation between vocational training institutions in Vietnam and vocational training institutions in New Zealand in both width and depth, in addition to well implementing the cooperation agreement have a specific plan, evaluate to draw experience for each deployment stage to have an appropriate plan for the next stage.

Source: DVET Office