The vocational teacher training at the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Laos was established initially as a coordinating unit according to the decree of the Minister of Education No. 480/04 dated on 23.03.2004, A year later, the unit was upgraded to a division namely the Vocational Teacher Training Division according to the decree of the Minister of Education No. 2116/05, dated on 28. 09. 2005. The division was under the supervision of the Higher Education Department, MOE.

The number of the first, second and third group of students graduated as vocational teachers  was 22 in the academic year 2007/08, 40 in 2008/09,  27 in 2009/10, 9 in 2011/2012, and 12 in 2012/2013 respectively. In 2011, the Vocational Teacher Training Division has become Department of Teacher Education according to the decree of the Minister No. 976/MOE/2011 dated 19 April 2011