VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s education system needs a comprehensive, profound, absolute, even revolutionary overhaul as the standard of education in this land lags far behind much of the region, General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote in a letter to the press yesterday.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/education/2007/09/739459/

“Weakness can be seen in every direction, be it in the intellectual standard of the public, human resource training or the misuse of talented people,” he wrote. He called on Vietnamese educators to learn from other countries, especially the USA and the EU members, and apply their findings here.


Agreed!

I wish General Vo Nguyen Giap can live at least until 2010 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Hanoi.

Start requiring English education at 4th or 5th grade. Unfortunately, English is the de-facto official language of higher learning.

I would like to go back to Vietnam and volunteer to teach during the summer.

Many of us in here, please contribute and volunteer our talents and abilities to improve our motherland country, Vietnam.

what are you going to teach?

I would like to volunteer to teach Mathematics and English.

for teaching, it's better if you do it permanently. switching teachers is hard on students. maybe tutoring?

I'd be your assistance if you teach tooswt.

ASEAN, how about me?

if you're my assistant, i'll resign in a heartbeat. stop making me go off topic.

Giap, the former teacher, is 1000% correct. If Vietnam is to compete in the 21st century, it better have very high standards and crank out tons of college grads. Ultimately, Vietnam must have a population of at least 20% college grads within 2-3 generations.

I'm not sure what the stats are for now, but Japan was about 25% college educated during the 1990's. Japanese men were the most college educated men in the world at about 30%. The US college grad rate is very high, the highest I'm sure. S. Korea now has a higher college grad rate than Japan. All things being equal, the country with the most college grads will come out on top, per capita wise at least.

The figures for Vietnam and China were pathetic just a few years ago, something like around 5% or less if memory serves me. Vietnam was even less college educated than China.

The Vietnam will have to compete no just against Japan and S. Korea, America, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe, but also China, India, and Eastern Europe. Both China and India will be importing cars into the US by 2008. Not sure how Indian cars will do, but Chinese cars will ultimately be dominant within 15-20 years. And will probably overtake Japan in 50 years, if not sooner.

The point is, it's is gonna be a really crowded field. S. Vietnam was manufacturing its own car during the war, and N. Vietnam was manufacturing its own trucks. Although, we did have some experience in the past, we'd better get started soon. Damn soon.

Thats OG Giap right thurrr, trying to reform education standard and $hit.


Respektttttttttttttt!!