Orientations for sustainable development in vocational schools

Abstract

Vocational training plays an important role in the development of every country. The vocational development strategy, period 2011-2020, Vietnam has expected to increase the rate of trained workers to 40% (about 23.5 million people in 2015). The 2013 updated labor market report revealed that the vocational school enrollment was 1,732,000 students, around 36% comparing to the expectation. However, in recent years, many vocational schools in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces complained that the enrolment has declined too much (over 40%). In general, it’s believed that students do not have a suitable orientation, lack of passion in their chosen career, lack of motivation to learn and unable to adapt to the learning environment, etc. This research finds out main causes leading to dropout students in vocational schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, and proposes some solutions to solve it in order to meet sustainable development in vocational schools.