4. Procedures for dividing and merging foreign-invested vocational schools

- a. Procedures

Applicant requesting the division and acquisition of the foreign-invested vocational school shall make an application dossier as specified in clause 2 of this Article and send it to the General Department of Vocational Education in person or by post if they apply as a college; or to the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs if they apply as a vocational training center or an intermediate school; Within 10 working days after receiving the valid application dossier, the General Department of Vocational Education shall get opinions from the People’s Committee in the province where the head office of the foreign-invested college is located during the acquisition or division; the General Department of Vocational Education and Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs shall appraise such dossier and submit it to the competent person specified in Article 13 hereof for him/her to make a decision to divide or merge the foreign-invested vocational school, using form 2A specified in Appendix hereto; If the application dossier is deemed unsatisfactory, within 03 working days after receiving such dossier, the receiving agency shall send written explanations to the applicant requesting the division and acquisition of the foreign-invested vocational school.

- b. Deadline for sending the permission for division and acquisition of foreign-invested vocational school

Within 02 working days after the permission to divide and merge the foreign-invested college is received, the General Department of Vocational Education shall send such written permission to the People's Committee of the province where the head office of the college is located before and after the division or acquisition, in order for such Committee to carry out supervision and management. Also, the General Department of Vocational Education shall post this written permission on their website. Within 02 working days after the permission to divide and merge the vocational training center and the foreign-invested intermediate school in the province is received, the provincial People's Committee shall send the permission to the General Department of Vocational Education for supervision and management, and shall post such permission on their website.

## Article 18. Dissolution of foreign-invested vocational schools

1. Foreign-invested vocational school shall be dissolved if it falls into the cases specified in clause 1 of Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education and shall receive a permission to be dissolved if it falls into cases specified in clause 2, Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education. 2. An application dossier for dissolution of foreign-invested vocational school specified in clause 1, Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education shall consist of: a. A written request for dissolution of the competent authority which specifies the reasons of the dissolution;

- b. Results from inspection of the violations specified in clause 1a, Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education;
- c. Decision on suspension of training activities which is issued by the competent agency regarding the violations specified in clause 1b, Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education;