With the Government’s 2024 semiconductor technique, Vietnamese universities have quickly expanded enrollment whereas ministries name for elevated funding in infrastructure and stronger industry-academia linkages.
On September 21, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Decision No.1018/QD-TTg approving the Strategy for Developing Vietnam’s Semiconductor Industry till 2030, with a imaginative and prescient to 2050 (Strategy 1018), and Decision No.1017/QD-TTg approving the Program for Developing Human Resources for the Semiconductor Industry till 2030, with an orientation to 2050 (Program 1017).
Immediately after the technique and determination had been issued, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) urgently applied related contents. Based on the MoET’s orientation, coaching establishments shortly reviewed and opened new majors whereas rising enrollment quotas for built-in circuit (IC) and semiconductor disciplines.
According to Deputy Director Nguyen Anh Dung of the Higher Education Department (beneath the MoET), in the course of the 2025 college admission interval, the entire variety of profitable candidates in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields reached over 237,000. Among them, greater than 137,000 college students had been admitted to coaching packages associated to ICs and semiconductors.
Additionally, many coaching establishments with robust capabilities have issued insurance policies to appeal to expertise, serving to to enhance the educating and analysis employees within the semiconductor area. Currently, the MoET is submitting insurance policies on scholarships and tuition charges to the Government to assist learners in these majors.
The implementation of Strategy 1018 and Program 1017 has additionally created a ripple impact all through your entire schooling system. At the final schooling degree, vocational steering linked with STEM schooling is being promoted, contributing to early orientation for the recruitment pool of expertise sectors.
At the college and vocational schooling ranges, coaching packages associated to electronics, ICs, data expertise, and automation are being reviewed and adjusted in accordance to sensible wants.
Concurrently, strengthening connections between coaching establishments and enterprises, industrial parks, and hi-tech parks has promoted the proactive participation of companies, forming a “3-party” linkage mannequin: State – School – Enterprise.
Regarding the requirement to develop human sources for the semiconductor {industry}, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) is at the moment constructing a forecast of human useful resource demand till 2030 for the semiconductor {industry} and core digital expertise sectors.
During implementation, it famous that many difficulties stay. The home semiconductor ecosystem shouldn’t be but synchronous; technological capability is proscribed; and there’s a scarcity of high-quality human sources. Furthermore, infrastructure, laboratory programs, and licensed IC design instruments at tutorial institutes are missing and don’t meet necessities.
The MoST proposes persevering with to good the authorized framework and insurance policies for semiconductor {industry} growth. At the identical time, precedence needs to be given to investing in chip fabrication vegetation (fabs), creating a complete semiconductor ecosystem, and strengthening human useful resource coaching.
The Ministry additionally proposes forming analysis and growth (R&D) facilities and joint laboratories between the State, colleges, and enterprises.
Meanwhile, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) said that it has proactively opened and applied specialised coaching packages immediately associated to semiconductors at each undergraduate and postgraduate ranges. Simultaneously, it’s creating a group of lecturers and progressively investing in laboratories, analysis infrastructure, and instruments serving coaching and follow.
VAST can also be selling coaching and analysis linkages with companies and worldwide cooperation, particularly with companions in nations and territories with strengths in semiconductors resembling Taiwan (China), the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Europe.
Like the MoST, VAST acknowledges that many difficulties persist. The Academy recommends prioritizing funding in laboratory infrastructure, perfecting mechanisms to appeal to high-quality human sources, increasing coaching packages, and rising assist for learners. VAST additionally proposes strengthening coordination with the MoET and related ministries and sectors to implement packages in a profound, substantive, and sustainable course.
Evaluating the one-year preliminary assessment of implementing Strategy 1018 and Program 1017, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc requested coaching establishments to give attention to innovating coaching packages intently linked to the sensible growth of the semiconductor {industry}; creating a group of lecturers and specialists; rising funding in services and laboratories; and pushing for digital transformation.
Along with this, synchronous options needs to be deployed, resembling increasing enrollment scale, attracting specialists, and perfecting monetary insurance policies to assist learners, thereby strengthening the synergy between stakeholders in creating the semiconductor ecosystem.
By Thanh Hung – Translated by Thanh Tam