Table of contents Chapter Title Page Acknowledgement i Abstract ii Table of Contents iii List of Figures iv List of Tables v Chapter I –Introduction 2 Chapter II - Literature review 5 1. The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth 5 2. Vocational Training 7 3. Definition of Terms 8 Chapter III- Human Resources Development in Vietnam 15 1. State of HRD in Vietnam 15 2. Views and Overall Objectives on HRD 17 3. Specific Objectives 18 4. Major Policies and Measures for the Implementation 20 Chapter IV- Development in Education and Training and Problems to be Addressed 23 1. Development in Education and Training 23 2. Education Development Policy In Vietnam 31 3. Strategic Orientations for Education Development 1996-2000 33 Chapter V - The situation of Middle Technical schools and Vocational Schools in Vietnam 40 1. Background 40 2. Models of Technical and Middle Vocational Training 42 3. Teachers in Technical Schools and Middle Vocational Schools 46 Chapter VI- Findings and Discussion of the survey 50 1. General 50 2. Data Collection in Hanoi and Haiphong 54 3. Data Analysis 58 Chapter VII- Recommendations 62 1. Making Vocational Training more Responsive to Labor Market Needs 62 2. The New Direction of Technical and Vocational Education 63 3. Measures to Solve the Problem of Educated Unemployment 67