VietNamNet Bridge - Multibillions of dong have been pumped into vocational schools, but this has not helped prevent schools from sinking.

VietNamNet Bridge – While more jobs will be created as the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) comes into effect by the year-end, the number of Vietnamese workers with skills that meet international labour market remains insufficient.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational centres have shown little interest in carrying out quality assessments to improve training for labourers, director of the Department of Vocational Training Quality Assessment,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professor Nguyen Mau Banh, general secretary and vice president of the Viet Nam Veteran Teacher Association, spoke to Vanguard (Tien Phong) newspaper about changes in the country's education system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been trying to produce more and more workers with bachelor’s degrees, while it has been neglecting vocational education. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs would ask its provincial agencies to evaluate and restructure vocational schools in order to improve their performance,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Universities, junior colleges and vocational schools all complain that they cannot enroll enough students. Where have the high school graduates gone?

  VietNamNet Bridge – Even though there have been many warnings about redundancy in the fields of finance and banking, students continue to apply to these departments for the upcoming university entrance exams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Educators have reported an increasingly high number of applicants with higher education degrees who pass credits to study at vocational schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The handwriting is on the wall for the death of vocational schools in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Anticipating the gloomy future of vocational schools which cannot enroll students, investors now try to bargain the schools away to quit the unprofitable investment field.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facing a severe student shortage, many vocational training school classroooms equipped with expensive tools and machinery are going unused as enrolment remains stagnant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of vocational schools have been built just to be left… idle, because Vietnamese students don’t like going to vocational schools.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of tourism major students are produced every year, but travel firms still complain they cannot recruit enough workers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises are looking to hire more than 20,000 workers in May, an increase of more than 6,000 over the last month,

Tens of billions of dong have been spent by schools, tens of groups of consultants have been sent to provinces and cities in an effort to attract more students.

While vocational schools play a very important role in the educational systems in other countries, experts have warned about the disappearance of the schools in Vietnam which cannot attract students.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has asked public technical and vocational schools in the city to focus efforts this year on improving the quality of teaching as well as the English proficiency of their graduates.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By 2015, the tourism industry needs about half a million more skilled workers, experts have warned.

This year vocational training schools are facing declining enrolment numbers due to fierce competition from universities, who are opening their own vocational schools and extending the enrolment season in order to attract more students,