VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Education and
Training--Nguyen Vinh Hien on January 8, 2013, said the ministry is considering
to add “business” into the general school curriculum after 2015.
Pilot program gives encouraging results
According to Dr. Le Van Anh from
the Vietnam Institute of Sciences, in 2006-2007 academic year, the
International Labor Organization (ILO) joined forces with the institute to run
business education at high schools in Vietnam.
Under the program, business
education was provided as an optional subject for high school students, which
aimed to provide basic knowledge about business and enterprises to students.
“The program aimed to help
students choose careers for them and can make their way in the world,” Anh
said.
“We also hoped to narrow the
knowledge gap between the knowledge students receive from school and the
reality at enterprises,” she continued.
The business education was
conducted in a pilot project at 11 education establishments, including the
seven high schools in the four provinces of Thanh
The project supervisors found out
that students showed their great interests in the new subject. A half of the
students said after the training course that they want to start their business,
while 2/3 of them affirmed they have got sufficient knowledge and necessary
skills to run business of their own.
A deep interview was conducted
with five students, who attended the pilot training course. The students gave
different answers about the usefulness of the training courses to their future
careers, but all of them said they could utilize the knowledge right to their
family daily activities.
“The knowledge I receive helps me
plan my studies and helps the mother manage the family’s spending,” said Duyen,
a student of the Dong Xoai High School in Binh Phuoc province.
The polled students who attended
the pilot training course also said that the program not only provided them
with useful knowledge, but also helped practice the skills necessary for
businessmen, such as negotiation, communication, teamwork and idea presentation
skills.
Trung, a former student of the
Bim Son Continuation Center in Thanh Hoa province, said that he and a group of
classmates then decided to make billboards. His business now has seven workers
who can earn VND20 million a month.
The program would be run in a large scale
The Ministry of Education and
Training has affirmed the necessity of business lessons for high school
students.
It is estimated that 30 percent
of secondary school graduates every year do not study further at high schools,
but would go working, and about 80 percent of high school graduates would not
enter universities. A lot of them want to run business themselves, and they
need the knowledge to succeed in their lives.
Doan Van Ninh, Deputy Director of
the High School Education Department, has affirmed that the good result of the
pilot project showed that business education should be applied in a large
scale. The thing that needs to be done now is think about how to organize the
business education at all of high school all over the country.
Ninh suggested that business
education would be integrated into some subjects. Especially, the current
vocational curriculum designed for 11th graders would have some more content
about the business fields. It is expected that this would be taught in 105
periods (45 minutes per period), and 3 periods a week.
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