Apply For A License To Open A Language Center

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You often have questions like: Where do I start? What are the regulations on establishing a foreign language center? What conditions must I meet? What documents and records do I need to prepare?

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PROCEDURES FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER

If a language center is eligible to operate, it needs to carry out the following two procedures:

1.  Authority to establish foreign language centers

1. The director or principal of an academy, university, or college of pedagogy decides to establish a center on the school’s campus.
2. Heads of social organizations, professional societies, and economic organizations permitted by law to establish affiliated training centers have the authority to decide on connected foreign language centers.
3. The Director of the Department of Education and Training decides to establish foreign language centers under its authority. They permit the establishment of foreign language centers of universities, academies, universities, and pedagogical colleges placed outside the school’s campus and foreign language and informatics centers specified at Point b, Clause 1 of this Article.

2.  A dossier of the establishment of a foreign language center includes:

• Application for establishment of a language center
• The project to establish a foreign language center includes

– Center name

– Central Location

– The necessity and legal basis of the establishment of the center.

– Center’s mission and goals

– Education program, the training scale

– Center’s facilities

– The organizational structure of the center, Curriculum vitae of the person expected to be the Center Director.

• Draft regulations on organization of activities of foreign language centers

3.  Order of opening a language center

Step 1: Organizations and individuals send 01 sets of documents directly or by post as prescribed in Clause 2 of this Article to the competent person;

Step 2: Within ten working days after the date of receipt of complete and valid dossiers. Competent agencies are responsible for appraising and inspecting according to regulations;

Step 3: Within 05 working days, the person competent to decide on the establishment or approval of the establishment of the center specified in Clause 1 of this Article decides to establish or permit the establishment if all conditions are eligible. If the establishment has not been decided yet, a written notice shall be sent to the organization or individual, clearly stating the reason.

PROCESSING PROCEDURES FOR ESTABLISHING A STATE CENTER QUALIFYING FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Pursuant to Article 49 of the Consolidated Document No. 07/VBHN-BGDĐT in 2018:

1.  Authority to authorize educational activities

1. The Director of the Department of Education and Training shall decide to permit educational operations for foreign language centers specified at Points b and c, Clause 1, Article 47 of this Decree;
2. The director of the university or the principal of an institute, university, or college shall decide to allow educational activities for the foreign language center to operate within the campus of the school.

2. What documents are required for an application for permission for educational activities?

a) A written request for an educational operation license;

b) A copy of the decision on the establishment of the center issued by a competent person;

c) Regulations on educational activities of the center;

d) Report on facilities, equipment, programs, and teaching materials; management staff, teachers; documents proving the lawful right to use land and houses; funding sources to ensure the operation of the center.

3. Procedure for applying for permission for educational activities of a foreign language center

Step 1: The foreign language center shall send 01 sets of documents specified in Clause 2 of this Article, directly or by post, to the competent person specified in Clause 1 of this Article;

Step 2: Within 05 working days of the date the file was received, the competent person specified in Clause 1 of this Article shall receive the dossier. If the dossier is not by regulations, it shall notify in writing the contents that need to be corrected and supplemented to the center;

Step 3: Within 10 working days from the date of receipt of the correct application. The competent person specified in Clause 1 of this Article shall coordinate with relevant agencies and units in organizing the actual appraisal of the ability to satisfy the conditions as prescribed and recording the results in the appraisal minutes;

Step 4: Within 05 working days from the date of the appraisal result, the competent person specified in Clause 1 of this Article shall decide to allow the center to operate the education. If the decision has not yet allowed educational activities, a written notice shall be sent to the center clearly stating the reason.

CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER

Pursuant to Article 48 of the Consolidated Document No. 07/VBHN-BGDĐT in 2018:

1. Conditions for a foreign language center to conduct educational activities:

A team of managers, teachers, and staff who meet the prescribed standards, meeting the operational requirements of the center.

Facilities, equipment, programs, teaching materials, appropriate funding sources, ensuring education quality according to the center’s construction and development plan and operation scale.

2. The Center Director is a person who meets the following criteria:

Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 6 of Circular No. 21/2018/TT-BGDDT on Regulations on organization and operation of foreign language and informatics centers:

a) Having a good character;

b) Having management capacity;

c) Graduated from a foreign language university or graduated from a university with a foreign language certificate of at least level 3 according to the 6-level Foreign Language Competency Framework for Vietnam or equivalent (for directors of foreign language centers).

d) Having experience in the field of education and training.