Vietnamese Education and Issues

Full name: Lê Đăng Hoàng

Class       : TCTT-A

EDUCATION

Education plays the most important roll in developing progress of every country, especially in developing countries such as Viet Nam. We can not deny that Vietnamese education reforms have brought many great achievements in educating and training: only five percent of Vietnamese people don’t attend school at all, and the figure is becoming lower for every upcoming generation. The literacy rate is over 90%, and the spatial and gender inequalities are decreasing. However, besides the success, there are many serious issues also. Firstly, Vietnam still hasn’t managed to eradicate inequalities completely. In general, there are three kinds of noticeable inequalities: a disparity between North and South, one between cities and rural areas, and a smaller and decreasing difference between men and women. Some minorities have a significantly higher rate of illiteracy. Over 50% of the Hmong tribe, and about a quarter of the Khmer and Thai minorities, are not able to read and write. Secondly, cheating in educating and testing is still exist. Teachers, students and even the leaders of education system keep focusing on achievements and mark only but not the true quality – on their students’ abilities to work in real life when the courses finished. Thirdly, mistakes in educating and training lead to the lack of practicing and creativity in almost Vietnamese students. In addition, studying much in different fileds causes the lack of centralized training, students have knowledge on many fields but not good at anyone. Vietnamese education still follows the “teacher-oriented” form and class discussions are uncommon as a consequence of confucian culture.

To sum up, education and training have attained literacy goal only and a little of creating and fostering talents but have not achieve the quality of labor. This deficiency is getting more and more visible as the country entered a period of industrialization and modernization. To make Vietnamese education become better needs a huge effort from the government, and more spendings on education, has helped to reduce cheating. The next step would be to wipe them out completely, but that is going to take a while.