Tiếng Việt| MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM |
| No. 07/2022/TT-BGDDT | Hanoi, May 23, 2022 |
CIRCULAR
CAREER COUNSELING AND BUSINESS STARTUP SUPPORT IN EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Pursuant to Education Law dated June 14, 2019;
Pursuant to Law on Higher Education dated June 18, 2012; Law on amendments to Law on Higher Education dated November 19, 2018;
Pursuant to Decree 69/2017/ND-CP dated May 25, 2017 of the Government on functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training;
At request of Director of Student Affairs Department;
The Minister of Education and Training promulgates Circular on career counseling and business startup support in education institutions.
Chapter I
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Article 1. Scope and regulated entities
1. This Circular prescribes tasks, forms of implementation, and conditions for career counseling and business startup support in education institutions.
2. This Circular applies to: primary schools, lower-secondary schools, upper-secondary schools, multi-level secondary schools, specialized schools, other education institutions providing formal education program (hereinafter referred to as “formal education institutions”); pedagogy universities, institutes, higher education institutions, colleges, and education institutions providing teacher training (hereinafter referred to as “higher education institutions”); relevant organizations and individuals.
Article 2. Definition
In this document, terms below are construed as follows:
1. “career counseling in education institutions” refers to activities conducted to help learners discover their potentials, talents in order to redirect their studying, specialty development, career, and occupation according to their capacity, hobbies, strengths, and health.
2. “business startup support in education institutions” refers to activities conducted to help learners accumulate knowledge and skills to promote creativity, form novel ideas, solutions to create values for themselves, families, community, and society.
3. “partner” refers to an agency, entity, enterprise, education institution, manufacturing facility, organization, or individual connecting and/or cooperating with an education institutions in investing, building, renovating structures, providing equipment, documents, organizing training, supporting and developing services serving career counseling and business startup support.
Article 3. Implementation rules
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a) In primary schools: Aim for awareness of learners.
b) In lower-secondary schools: Aim for experiences of learners.
c) For upper-secondary schools: Aim for practice and career counseling for learners.
d) For pedagogy higher education and colleges: Aim for career, occupation development.
2. Training, knowledge and skill improvement, and startup training mentioned under this Circular must conform to education and training programs without changing time frames of school years of education institutions.
3. Encourage private sector involvement in career counseling and business startup support in education institutions in accordance with regulations and law.
Chapter II
CAREER COUNSELING
Article 4. Tasks of career counseling
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a) Educate students on jobs, career, occupations of parents, relatives, local traditional works, and basic occupations.
b) Teach students to form awareness, manage, discover themselves, manage finance, and develop communication skills.
c) Discover, nourish, and develop talents of students.
2. Career counseling in lower-secondary schools
a) Teach students to be positive towards work, career, and occupation; guide students to discover their hobbies, capacity, strengths, and career potentials.
b) Teach students to form and develop social skills, time management skill, stress and crisis coping skills, cooperating and sharing skills.
c) Create environment and allow students to get to know and experience some basic occupations, careers within the education institutions’ conditions.
d) Counsel, provide career and occupational training for students suitable with selected careers and jobs.
dd) Provide students with information, learning materials, and documents relating to career counseling.
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a) Teach students to develop potentials, capacity, and identify their professional demands and preferences.
b) Provide students with information on higher education institutions, training programs, and working positions following graduations.
c) Provide students with information and development trends of career and occupations.
d) Teach students to form and develop group work, presentation, leadership, planning, self-studying, and problem solving skills.
dd) Allow students to research and experience career and occupations of their wish within education institutions’ demands.
4. Career counseling for higher education institutions
a) Develop database on career, recruitment, skill and attitude requirements of occupations and career; information on work market relating to training majors.
b) Provide training and help students train, develop awareness, social skills, manage emotions, and professional skills.
c) Help students experience and get used to real-life work in partners; guide students to take part-time work suitable with study schedules and school rules.
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Article 5. Form of implementation of career counseling
1. For primary schools
a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.
b) Allow students to find out about popular jobs in Vietnam via learning tools, working tools, images, videos, stage performances.
c) Allow students to recognize work and occupations via visiting and experiencing in the community, enterprises, agencies, entities, and partners at least once per year depending on education institutions’ conditions.
d) Discover, improve potentials, train skills of students via studying, club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.
2. For lower-secondary schools
a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.
b) Allow students to research and acknowledge work trends via images, videos, materials, studying tools, and working tools.
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d) Guide, instruct students to discover, recognize, and develop potentials, skills, strengths, occupation options and work via studying and training.
dd) Organize training for knowledge and skills regarding occupations and work for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.
3. For upper-secondary schools
a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.
b) Allow students to research virtue, capacity, specialty, and professional requirements of work via learning tools, working tools, occupational materials.
c) Organize training for knowledge and skills regarding occupations and work for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.
d) Allow students to practice, experience occupations that the students have been counseled by visiting, experiencing in community, enterprises, agencies, entities, and partners at least once per school year within the schools' capacity.
dd) Organize admission and career counseling day for students, at least once per school year.
4. For higher education institutions
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b) Provide tools, methods, and guide students to assess their ability, attitude, and adaptability to the labor market.
c) Organize career training for students via social activities and extra-curricular activities.
d) Organize training, knowledge improvement, and skill training for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, experiences at employers, and cooperation with partners.
dd) Organize admission and career day for students at least once per school year.
Chapter III
BUSINESS STARTUP SUPPORT
Article 6. Tasks of business startup support
1. For lower-secondary schools
a) Publicize and disseminate details about business startup.
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c) Guide, provide learning materials, and create environment to allow students for form ideas, practice, and experiment implementing startup ideas and projects.
2. For upper-secondary schools
a) Publicize and disseminate details about business startup.
b) Educate students on: Active citizens, awareness about startup, technology, digital transformation, design philosophy, business knowledge, financial management, business models, and communication solutions.
c) Guide, provide documents and learning materials to help students form startup projects.
d) Assign facilities, resources, and create environment to help students experience, practice, implement, and develop startup ideas, projects.
dd) Connect feasible startup projects of students with partners and organizations growing, nurturing startup.
3. For higher education institutions
a) Provide students with information on business startup support programs and policies.
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c) Train, improve, and organize training for students regarding: Active citizens, awareness about startup, technology, digital transformation, design philosophy, business knowledge, lean startup, corporate finance, communication, branding, intellectual property, funding, corporate governance, and other startup knowledge, skills suitable for training majors.
d) Allocate resources, facilities, laboratories, practice workshops, create environment and common space assisting students in startup.
dd) Develop business incubation program, assist students in forming, experiencing, practicing, and completing startup ideas and projects.
e) Counsel, assist, and connect students’ startup projects with startup support funds and partners.
Article 7. Forms of implementing business startup support
1. For lower-secondary schools
a) Inform students about business startup business by integrating in subjects, curricular activities, documents, and media.
b) Organize training and provide startup knowledge, skills for students via training and documents provided by education institutions.
c) Develop scientific research clubs and business startup clubs to allow students to form startup ideas and projects.
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2. For upper-secondary schools
a) Inform students about business startup business by integrating in subjects, curricular activities, documents, and media.
b) Organize training and provide startup knowledge, skills for students via training and documents provided by education institutions.
c) Develop scientific research clubs and business startup clubs to allow students to form startup ideas and projects.
d) Organize seminars, talk shows to inspire students at least once per school year.
dd) Cooperate with partners in creating startup environment; organize practice and implementation of startup projects, connect feasible startup projects of students with business incubation organizations.
3. For higher education institutions
a) Inform students about startup activities via training, extra-curricular activities, documents, and media.
b) Develop mandatory or optional training programs, training topics for startup knowledge and skills for students.
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d) Organize training and improvement for knowledge, skills regarding business startup for students via training programs, research, extra-curricular activities, information technology, and cooperation with partners.
dd) Assist, establish business startup research clubs.
e) Organize practice and implementation of startup projects for students by cooperating with partners; allow students to participate in competitions, fairs, exhibitions, and display of scientific, technical achievements, startup projects.
Chapter IV
RESPONSIBILITIES OF AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND INDIVIDUALS
Article 8. Responsibilities of Ministry of Education and Training
1. Take charge and cooperate with ministries and local governments in organizing implementation of this Circular; producing periodic preliminary assessment and final assessment of implementation results of this Circular.
2. Direct, instruct education institutions, agencies, organizations and individuals to develop details, materials, programs for practice and experiences regarding career counseling and business startup support for use by students in education institutions according to this Circular.
3. Direct and instruct relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals to develop programs, organize training, professional t raining for employees engaging in career counseling and business startup support in higher education institutions. Develop training programs for students performing career counseling and business startup support as a part-time work for students in formal education institutions.
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5. Direct and instruct higher education institutions to list graduates who have been employed and graduates initiating startup business on an annual basis; consolidate and disclose annual data on employed graduates.
6. Cooperate with relevant agencies, entities in guiding higher education institutions in developing startup space, business incubation programs, and connecting with business incubation centers of ministries and local governments in order to grow startup ideas and projects of students and lecturers.
Article 9. Responsibilities of People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities
1. Direct education authorities of all levels, departments, enterprise associations in provinces and cities to develop plans and organize implementation mentioned under this Circular.
2. Coordinate integration of career counseling and business startup support of education institutions in provinces and cities in socio-economic development plans, local startup programs, projects, and schemes.
3. Guarantee funding sources for provincial education institutions for implementation of this Circular.
4. Develop policies for incentivizing enterprises to cooperate and assist education institutions in implementing career counseling and business startup support. Encourage enterprises in building common spaces for experiencing and startup in education institutions.
Article 10. Responsibilities of Departments of Education and Training and Education and Training Authorities
1. Advise People’s Committees of provinces/districts to develop plans for implementing career counseling and business startup support in provinces and cities; advice to issue benefits for education officials, teachers, employees, and students with merits in implementation of this Circular.
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3. Be responsible to People’s Committees of provinces/districts for managing career counseling and business startup support of education institutions within their management.
4. Cooperate with partners in developing common spaces for experiencing and startup in education institutions.
5. Submit reports on implementation results to People’s Committees of provinces/districts and superior education authorities periodically at the end of each school year or irregularly at request of competent authorities.
Article 11. Responsibilities of formal education institutions
1. Develop plans for implementing career counseling and business startup support according to this Circular.
2. Assign teachers to implement career counseling and business startup support for students as a part-time or full-time work. Full-time or part-time teachers are responsible for advising the principals to develop plans for implementing career counseling and business startup support in education institutions; cooperate with class teachers, subject teachers, and teachers in charge of youth unions in implementing tasks. Working policies of part-time or full-time teachers shall conform to regulations of Ministry of Education and Training regarding working regulations of teachers in formal education programs and relevant regulations; teachers shall receive training and professional training as per the law.
3. Provide students and teachers with documents, images, videos, and tools for assessing capacity and potentials of students, contents of practice and experience programs at enterprises, documents educating business startup, and information on business startup policies of the Government, education sector, and local governments.
4. Enable students to participate in activities, events relating to career counseling and business startup organized by Ministry of Education and Training or ministries, local governments, and education institutions.
5. Students winning prizes and instructors of students achieving honorable mention or higher in the Students with startup ideas competition organized by Ministry of Education and Training shall be commended by local governments and benefiting from incentives policies as per applicable laws.
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7. Cooperate with partners in organizing implementation of tasks under this Circular in accordance with procedures of the law.
8. Stay under command of government, education authorities of all levels; submit adequate reports at request of superior education authorities.
Article 12. Responsibilities of higher education institutions
1. Establish or develop departments in charge of career counseling and business startup support for students and assign adequate personnel to implement tasks in accordance with this Circular.
2. Personnel engaging career counseling and business startup support shall receive benefits according to internal expenditure regulations of higher education institutions, training, professional training, be enabled to participate in training programs for career counseling and startup organized by central authorities and local authorities. Regulate benefits for officials, lecturers guiding students in startup activities and guarantee rights of officials and lecturers in the same manner as instructors of students conducting scientific research.
3. Regulate benefits for students participating in startup and guarantee rights of students in the same manner as students conducting scientific research.
4. Provide students with documents and programs relating to professional skills and work for students. Provide managerial officials, lecturers, and students with documents on business startup.
5. Ensure adequate facilities and equipment serving practice, startup environment, business incubation facilities in education institutions.
6. Students achieving and lecturers of students achieving honorable mention or higher in the Students with startup ideas Competition organized by Ministry of Education and Training shall be considered for commendation and benefits in accordance with applicable laws.
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8. Producing preliminary assessment, final assessment, periodic or irregular reports on career counseling and business startup support of education institutions at request of Ministry of Education and Training and direct superiors.
Article 13. Responsibilities of partners
1. Implement this Circular and relevant law provisions.
2. Ensure quality of activities conducted under cooperation with education institutions.
3. Ensure physical and mental health and legal benefits for learners and instructors when organizing activities; ensure risk insurance of participants.
4. Manage, store documents on activity organization, including: Guidelines, plans, documents, lists of participants, financial statements as per applicable laws.
Chapter V
IMPLEMENTATION
Article 14. Implementation expenditure
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1. State budget;
2. Legal revenues of education institutions;
3. Donations and aids of Vietnamese, foreign organizations and individuals;
4. Other funding sources as per the law.
Article 15. Entry into force and responsibilities for implementation
1. This Circular comes into force from July 08, 2022.
2. This Circular replaces Decision No. 68/2008/QD-BGDDT dated December 9, 2008 of Minister of Education and Training.
3. Chief of Office, Director of Student Affairs Department, heads of relevant entities affiliated to Ministry of Education and Training; Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities; Directors of Departments of Education and training, Director of Department of Education, Science and Technology of Bac Lieu Province, heads of higher education institutions, and relevant entities are responsible for the implementation of this Circular.
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PP. MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER
Ngo Thi Minh