During its 40 years, vocational training has contributed to promoting the cause of national construction and a system of laws and 107 normative acts have been set up and unified to create a legal corridor for the management of vocational training.

The network of vocational training centres is now well developed in 63 cities and provinces, spread over 600 districts, industrial zones and trade villages.

Enrollment in vocational training centres in 2008 reached nearly 1.54 million, increasing the number of workers with vocational training by 26 percent and achieving the objective of educational development for 2001-2010.

According to Cao Van Sam, deputy head of the General Department of Vocational Training, some measures are still needed in the future to focus on increasing society’s awareness of vocational training and raising the quality of teaching to meet the human resource demands for socio-economic development.