Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
Education policy makers around the world marvel at Vietnam’s success in access to general education and learning outcomes. Despite the country’s relatively low level of economic development, Vietnamese students outperform students in Organization f...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/261401596433155112/Vietnam-s-Human-Capital-Education-Success-and-Future-Challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34316 |
| Summary: | Education policy makers around the world
marvel at Vietnam’s success in access to general education
and learning outcomes. Despite the country’s relatively low
level of economic development, Vietnamese students
outperform students in Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries on average in
the program for international student assessment. What are
the factors that have allowed Vietnam to achieve such
success? This note shows that Vietnam’s education system
shares common characteristics with other successful
education systems in East Asia. While some of these factors
are sociocultural - which may not be easily replicable in
other countries - others are policy decisions from which
leaders of other countries may learn. Following the
evolution of education in postwar Vietnam, from 1975 to the
present, this note highlights the key reforms pursued by the
government and the resulting achievements, as well as the
obstacles encountered along the way. The note also discusses
challenges that Vietnam’s education system faces today in
reaching its full potential as a knowledge-based economy. |
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