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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Main Authors: Kataoka, Sachiko, Vinh, Le Anh, Kitchlu, Sandhya, Inoue, Keiko
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: 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
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spelling okr-10986-343162021-05-25T09:50:41Z Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges Kataoka, Sachiko Vinh, Le Anh Kitchlu, Sandhya Inoue, Keiko EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION EDUCATION MANAGEMENT TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS LITERACY PRESCHOOL STUDENT ASSESSMENT EDUCATION SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 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. 2020-08-10T20:52:01Z 2020-08-10T20:52:01Z 2020-08-03 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/261401596433155112/Vietnam-s-Human-Capital-Education-Success-and-Future-Challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34316 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
LITERACY
PRESCHOOL
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
EDUCATION SPENDING
ACCOUNTABILITY
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
spellingShingle EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
LITERACY
PRESCHOOL
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
EDUCATION SPENDING
ACCOUNTABILITY
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Kataoka, Sachiko
Vinh, Le Anh
Kitchlu, Sandhya
Inoue, Keiko
Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Vietnam
description 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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author Kataoka, Sachiko
Vinh, Le Anh
Kitchlu, Sandhya
Inoue, Keiko
author_facet Kataoka, Sachiko
Vinh, Le Anh
Kitchlu, Sandhya
Inoue, Keiko
author_sort Kataoka, Sachiko
title Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
title_short Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
title_full Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
title_fullStr Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Vietnam’s Human Capital : Education Success and Future Challenges
title_sort vietnam’s human capital : education success and future challenges
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/261401596433155112/Vietnam-s-Human-Capital-Education-Success-and-Future-Challenges
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