Vocational training and employment opportunities for discharged soldiers

(Baonghean) -On May 4, 2011, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs signed the Decision to upgrade Vocational College No. 4 to Vocational College No. 4 - Ministry of National Defense, opening up new opportunities in vocational training and job creation for demobilized soldiers, policy beneficiaries and workers in Military Region 4.

Established in December 1993, the Military Region 4 Employment Promotion Center was assigned the task of solving employment for demobilized soldiers and social policy beneficiaries; contributing to training human resources for localities. Despite many difficulties, the unit has effectively implemented the transformation mechanism from a subsidized unit to a public service unit model with financial autonomy, achieving important results. In 2002, the Military Region 4 Employment Promotion Center was upgraded to Vocational School No. 4, in 2007 to Vocational College No. 4, Ministry of National Defense.

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Truong Son - Vice Principal, said: With the motto "Training quality is the top choice, job creation is the number one priority", over the past 18 years, the School has trained more than 52,000 students; introduced jobs to nearly 10,000 workers of many subjects, in which priority is given to demobilized soldiers and children of policy families. The school's training scale is constantly developing; vocational training programs and curricula are completed and always updated to suit the actual requirements for 15 occupations; opened 02 more training facilities in Thua Thien-Hue and Thanh Hoa provinces; the flow reached over 10,000 students/year; 90% of graduates found jobs and had stable incomes.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs
Visit Vocational College No. 4 (Photo courtesy of the unit)

Closely following the actual needs of the labor market, in recent years, the School has trained 9 college-level occupations, 26 intermediate-level occupations, and 37 elementary-level occupations. From 2001 to 2010, the School has actively organized vocational training and job placement activities, effectively utilizing available facilities to train human resources to meet the needs of businesses and society; contributing to socio-economic development, implementing military rear policies; enhancing the capacity and ability of the national defense reserve force... The School has proactively cooperated with domestic companies, factories, industrial parks, enterprises, and overseas labor markets to introduce and solve jobs for graduates.


Currently, the School is standardizing and improving the quality and quantity of teachers and management staff; focusing on recruiting and training postgraduates, doctoral students and skilled experts; striving to have over 80% of them with university degrees by 2015, of which 40% have a master's degree or higher; At the same time, urgently completing and standardizing the training program; building key and spearhead occupations, suitable to the school's capacity and the society's need for resources. To increase resources, from ODA7 capital of the Republic of Austria, capital under the key occupation investment program and other sources to upgrade and build facilities and technical equipment from the system of lecture halls, workshops, dormitories. Combining innovation in teaching methods with research, technical improvement, application of new technology to serve teaching; increasing practical training time; training linked to businesses, with practical production facilities; Vocational training associated with services, business, and local job creation.

Colonel Le Duc Dung, Principal of the School, said: As a military vocational school, we focus on comprehensive training in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and aesthetics. Students are not only trained to have solid skills but are also trained and cultivated in a humane environment to perfect their personalities and become good citizens; upon graduation, they not only have good skills, industrial style, and adaptability to the labor market, but also have ethics, professional conscience, love for work, and high discipline.

Tran Hoai