Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges
Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. This paper provides an overv...
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okr-10986-276102021-06-08T14:42:47Z Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges Dang, Hai-Anh H. Glewwe, Paul W. EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT STUDENT ASSESSMENT Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. This paper provides an overview of the factors behind this exemplary performance, from an institutional viewpoint and by analyzing several data sources, some of which have rarely been used. The study finds that Vietnam has significantly increased school enrollment at all school levels in the past 20 years, and has achieved virtually universal primary school enrollment. Girls' net enrollment rates caught up with and then overtook those of boys at the secondary level in the past decade. Most of the variation in school enrollment and completed years of schooling was due to within-commune individual factors, rather than between-commune or between-province factors. School-level factors played an important, but diminishing, role in determining students' test scores, which was likely caused by a convergence in school quality in the country. The paper further discusses a host of challenges for the country—most of which have received insufficient attention to date—such as little school choice, a low secondary enrollment rate (compared with other Programme for International Student Assessment participants), inadequate training for the labor market, and the necessity of strategic planning for systemic reforms. 2017-07-17T21:37:38Z 2017-07-17T21:37:38Z 2017-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/105601498481351222/Well-begun-but-aiming-higher-a-review-of-Vietnams-education-trends-in-the-past-20-years-and-emerging-challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27610 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8112 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Vietnam |
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Given its modest position as a
lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the
rest of the world with its remarkable performance on
standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed
years of schooling. This paper provides an overview of the
factors behind this exemplary performance, from an
institutional viewpoint and by analyzing several data
sources, some of which have rarely been used. The study
finds that Vietnam has significantly increased school
enrollment at all school levels in the past 20 years, and
has achieved virtually universal primary school enrollment.
Girls' net enrollment rates caught up with and then
overtook those of boys at the secondary level in the past
decade. Most of the variation in school enrollment and
completed years of schooling was due to within-commune
individual factors, rather than between-commune or
between-province factors. School-level factors played an
important, but diminishing, role in determining
students' test scores, which was likely caused by a
convergence in school quality in the country. The paper
further discusses a host of challenges for the country—most
of which have received insufficient attention to date—such
as little school choice, a low secondary enrollment rate
(compared with other Programme for International Student
Assessment participants), inadequate training for the labor
market, and the necessity of strategic planning for systemic reforms. |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. Glewwe, Paul W. |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. Glewwe, Paul W. |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. |
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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges |
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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges |
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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges |
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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges |
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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher : A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges |
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well begun, but aiming higher : a review of vietnam's education trends in the past 20 years and emerging challenges |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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