Abstract
This paper that is drawn from a research as a country report funded by UNESCO explores how transversal skills (T.S) are integrated in the curriculum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), focusing on teaching and assessment of T.S and its factors influencing practices at four vocational colleges and schools and a tourism enterprise in Central Vietnam. Drawn upon the classroom and workshop observations, interviews of leaders, teachers, supervisors, and staff, and documentary analysis, this research aims to set alight of teaching and assessment of T.S and give suggestions to stakeholders. Findings show although T.S being imparted in Vietnamese TVET schools, teaching, learning and assessment activities of those skills are not really effective. Additionally, no specific policies or frameworks for T.S in Vietnam have been developed. Therefore, closer collaboration and exchange between TVET institutions and industry should be fostered with flexible career pathways and trainers in such institutions should work temporarily in companies to update their vocational competencies.
Highlights
Transversal Skills are the key to job recruitment, and a prerequisite for young workers to new working environments apart from competences, working capacity or professional ability
Like Malaysia and Singapore, in Vietnam, T.S is popularly known as soft skills or life skills which have been referred as the most popular and widely used term [4, 5]
This paper firstly introduces the national context, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) school policies, and practices related to T.S
Summary
Transversal Skills are the key to job recruitment, and a prerequisite for young workers to new working environments apart from competences, working capacity or professional ability. According to UNESCO, T.S is the necessary skills for the job’s application and retaining which involve a wide range of skills needed for work and environments. Such T.S include problem-solving, communications, creativity, management and entrepreneurial capabilities [1]. Like Malaysia and Singapore, in Vietnam, T.S is popularly known as soft skills or life skills which have been referred as the most popular and widely used term [4, 5] This term related to language use, socialized ability, the attitudes and behaviour applied in the communication between people.
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