Recent years have seen a growing number of technical schools and also witnessed significant improvements in the quality of vocational training in Da Nang.

The Kyodai Company based in Japan granting scholarships to Vietnamese trainees who have completed an intensive nursing internship course

As of late 2019, there had been 65 technical schools in the city, together offering a total of 260 vocational training programmes. This showed an increase of 30 and 160 in the number of schools and programmes against 2009 respectively.

In recent years, technical colleges and secondary schools across the city have focussed on providing practical training in their education programmes in which their students figure out their roles as potential employees in the real workplace. Included are the Phuong Dong and Bach Khoa junior colleges, the Viet Nam-Korea Friendship Information Technology Junior College, and the Tourism Junior College.

Also, these schools have facilitated their students to attend practical training at domestic and foreign businesses operating in the city. 

In particular, the Da Nang Tourism Junior College has entered into agreements with its partners who are restaurants, resorts, hotels and travel agencies in some foreign countries, in order to send its students for internships. Included are the Sachsen-Anhalt Hotel (Germany), the Baekseok University (South Korea), and the MOS Burger Group (Japan).

Meanwhile, the Phuong Dong Junior College has offered intensive training programmes in obstetric and pediatric, and oncology nursing. As a results, all graduates of these training programmes could find a suitable job in Singapore and Japan with a starting monthly salary of between 25 and 30 million VND.

In a similar vein, the ISace Technical College has raised practical training in automotive education to 80% of the curriculum in a bid to help its students gain professional and practical skills required by the automotive industry in order to help them meet the requirements of their future recruiters.

In addition, the Thoi Dai Moi International Education Cooperation Company has inked comprehensive agreements with Japan-headquartered firms to create internship and employment opportunities for its trainees.

In the time ahead, apart from  providing practical training, technical schools in Da Nang will pay more attention to helping their students enhance foreign language proficiency, and develop soft skills.

By THANH VAN - Translated by MAI DUNG