ABSTRACT
Industries in the future will significantly differ from those of today due to the boom of advanced technology as well as the leap of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Faced with the opportunities and challenges of these changes, each nation around the world has to adapt and then to create its own new competitive advantages toward human development. Vietnam, located in the most active region in the world – the ASEAN – has grown to become one of the most attractive economies with fast economic growth, a stable society and a young labour force. In the 2011–2020 period, Vietnam's workforce lead Vietnam's economy toward a knowledge economy due to a variety of policies to develop human resources, such as national strategy and policy on human resource development; however, the lack of employee skills in terms of quality could lead the nation to fail to grasp the opportunities of Fourth Industrial Revolution. To overcome these challenges, each partner in the national strategies of human resources development has to be involved more actively. In terms of the macro-view, the Vietnam government should make more policies to develop skills for the future, while in terms of the micro-view, industries and HEIs, TVEs should integrate themselves to develop graduate-learner skills to meet the requirements of future industries.
