VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has jumped two positions to reach 45th place on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 released by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

 The National Assembly Standing Committee convened a conference of full-time NA deputies on September 6 to discuss the draft revised law on fighting corruption and draft adjustments to the Law on Higher Education. 

Despite the serious shortage of workers for the IT industry, international firms have strict standards when they recruit Vietnamese IT engineers.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s tertiary education system has a new link, VinUni, a private university belonging to Vingroup.

 The draft amendments to the Competition Law and Law on Higher Education were discussed at the ongoing 22nd sitting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly yesterday.

Prof Ngo Bao Chau, a renowned Vietnamese mathematician and Fields medal winner, believes that poor management is one of the greatest challenges faced by Vietnam’s higher education system.

VietNamNet Bridge - The minimum required investment capital of VND1 trillion to open a private university is expected to discourage investors, as it would be difficult to recoup the capital.

Will the $80 million project on reforming general education be successful, or will it fail like other multi-trillion projects, including the classification of majors, VNEN and national program on foreign language teaching?

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of applications for recognition of foreign degrees made to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) increased by 44 times in 2008-2016.

VietNamNet Bridge - MOET has asked universities to publicize surveys and reports on the employment of their graduates. The statistics must be published on the schools’ websites, beginning this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Examinations and Education Quality Assurance Department has announced the draft regulation on higher-education establishment accreditation, under which universities would be ranked based on 111 criteria.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many high school teachers are giving high marks to students or ‘fabricating’ school reports to help students enroll in universities. 

VietNamNet Bridge - In order to increase revenue, universities are expanding their training scale, receiving as many students as possible and lowering requirements on students.

Educators, admitting that university training quality is declining while the number of unemployed graduates is on the rise, blamed low training costs, estimated at $500 a year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – University curricula in Viet Nam will be shortened by up to one year, according to a new framework of the country’s national education system recently approved by the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cooperation between Viet Nam and European countries in higher education is expected to get a boost following the Viet Nam-EU Higher Education Forum, and related activities,

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest labor bulletin shows that about 200,000 university graduates remained jobless, while businesses complain they cannot find enough workers to prepare for economic recovery. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Going to university is no longer ‘a must’ for many Vietnamese students, who would rather go to vocational schools and work at factories than attend university and remain unemployed.

The Ministry of Education and Training has released legal documents to control the universities’ training scale and quality, but  schools still can escape through legal loopholes and enroll more and more students.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The officials of the Dong Nai provincial Education and Training Department mistakenly said that Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan are two 10 provinces in Mekong River Delta.