With a growth rate of 14 – 16%/year, logistics is currently one of the fastest and strongest growing industries in Vietnam, ranked 11th in the top 50 global emerging logistics markets.
College teachers participated in the in-Australia component of a training course in the Aus4Skills Program.
Understanding the robust demand for human resources in this field, right after logistics was added to the list of formal training majors at the intermediate and college levels, the Central College of Transport V (Da Nang) has registered to open the logistics training major at the college level and started enrolling students in 2017.
The College was selected to participate in phase 2 (period 2021 – 2025) of the Aus4Skills Program. Through the Aus4Skills Program, Australian experts have shared teaching methods of and lessons on vocational education and training (VET), supporting Vietnam in building an industry-led training model, designed to fit the context of Vietnam.
From 2019 until now, the College has sent more than 30 managers and lecturers to participate in short-term courses organised by the Aus4Skills Program in Vietnam and Australia. Thanks to such support, the capacities of the College’s managers and teachers have been improved and there have been many positive changes in their teaching methods. The success in implementing the pilot training module “Receiving and storing goods” has helped the College promote the logistics major in a more efficient manner, enhancing its advantage in student recruitment.
Students of the logistics major of the Central College of Transport V
According to the assessment of Dr. Nguyen Van Tuoi, Principal of Central College of Transport V, educational cooperation activities with Aus4Skills Program have helped its managers and teachers gain more knowledge about inevitable trends in globalisation and digital transformation, as well as improve necessary skills such as leadership, management, transformational thinking, and design thinking. By that, students can develop more comprehensive capacities, including knowledge, skills, attitude and ability to find suitable jobs. The industry-led skills development model has yielded success in equipping students with competencies required by the market.
Although logistics is a new training major, the College has achieved very impressive results in both enrollment and training quality. The application of competency-based training and assessment (CBTA) method helps to increase the number of enrollments in the logistics major and other related majors in the field of logistics such as warehouse management, supermarket sale management and road transport business over the years.
The enrollment in 2019 was only 29 students but then shot up to 240 students in 2022 (increased by 7 times) and 276 students in 2023 (increased by 8.5 times). The rate of students successfully securing jobs and studying at a higher level after six months of graduation is always over 90%. Students and enterprises both have a very high level of satisfaction with the College’s training quality.
According to Ms. Truong Thi Thuy Tram, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Transportation, the faculty members have shared the knowledge and skills accumulated in the training courses of Aus4Skills Program with their colleagues to apply in teaching practice. Two lecturers of the Faculty won the second and third prizes in the Da Nang City Lecture Contest for VET Educators held in September 2024 with a lecture on the modules “Warehouse operations and customs procedures” of the logistics sector.
Ms. Tram said that the Aus4Skills Program not only supported building capacity for managers and teachers but also supported the College in the implementation of a pilot training project using CBTA method – an approach based on learner outcomes, closely combining teaching methods and assessment forms designed to evaluate the learner learning process through the demonstration of their knowledge, skills and behaviours towards the requirements set out at each level.
The success of the pilot training project has offered the College many lessons to renovate teaching activities to meet the standards of enterprises. From the occupational skills standards transferred, provided, and technically supported by the Aus4skills Program, the College has built and updated many training programs and teaching materials for occupations at all training levels (Intermediate, Streamlining from intermediate to college level, College) and in many related modules of occupations in the logistics sector such as “Warehouse operations”, “Supply chain management”, “Freight forwarding operations”, “Customs procedures”, “Laws on logistics business and multimodal transportation”, as while focusing on building assessment tools for students.
Dr. Nguyen Van Tuoi with teachers and students of the College at the Post-course seminar of the Project on the pilot module “Receiving and storing goods”, using the CBTA method.
The logistics training programs at the College are built in a lively and practical manner, helping students understand the overview of logistics and its role in related industries, as while providing them with a clear overview of career choices and motivating them to pursue the careers they have chosen.
Participating in the Aus4Skills Program, the college-industry cooperation activities have been deepened with clear focuses, which is also a factor contributing to the efficiency of training activities. Up to now, the College has signed cooperation agreements with more than 300 enterprises, including enterprises in the logistics sector, in all fields of training.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Suong – Head of Training Department, Universal Alloy Coporation Vietnam Co., Ltd. (UACV) – The business representative collaborating with the College in the Project on the pilot module “Receiving and storing goods”, using the CBTA method shares: “We speak highly of the CBTA model that the College is applying and the way the College listens and cooperates with us. We surely benefit from this model because we receive trained human resources that acquire full suite of skills and are ready to work without retraining”.
