VietNamNet Bridge – How is the Vietnamese national education in
the eyes of experts? Here is what they say about it.
1) Prof Hoang Xuan Sinh,
President of Thang Long University: Education tangled like bamboo shavings
Sinh said the Vietnamese
education is now tangled like bamboo shavings, while there are too many wrong
policies which should be blamed on managers. If the current problems cannot be
settled, the situation would be even more serious and tangled in 30 years more.
2) Prof Nguyen Lan Dung, a well-known
educator: I feel sad when university graduates have to sell instant noodles to
earn their living
A lot of university graduates
have to sell instant noodles or take simple jobs to earn their living.
It is expected that by 2020,
Vietnam would have 350-400 students for every 10,000 people. If we don’t
improve the training quality, the students would not be even able to find the
jobs as instant noodle marketers.
Dung also said that too many
problems have been existing in the national education, but he believes that
this should be blamed on the unreasonable curriculums instead of the bad
textbooks. Vietnamese students now have to learn too many subjects.
3) Deputy President Nguyen Thi
Binh: Vietnam’s education goes contrary to the laws of society
The education situation is so
serious. “We always say that education needs to go one step ahead of the
socio-economic development. However, in fact, education cannot go ahead, but it
is lagging behind. As such, education goes contrary to the laws of society,”
she said.
4) Prof Tran Hong Quan: The
national education has many systematic errors
The professor said, since the
Vietnamese education has too many systematic problems, it needs to change the
systematic thinking.
Four decades have elapsed since
the liberalization day, while Vietnam has undergone the doi moi (renovation)
over the last ¼ of century, but education still has not become a lever which
can help foster the socio-economic development. It is really a pity that
Vietnam’s education has been lagging behind the regional countries.
5) Prof Hoang Tuy: Vietnam’s
education is out of tone from the civilized world
Tuy said that it’s urgent to
carry out the education reform, considering this a vital task of the nation.
According to the professor,
Vietnam’s education has taken a step back, which should be attributed to the
“structural defects” or “systematical design errors.” Vietnam has been “out of
tone” from the civilized world, but it still thinks that this is its original
characteristic that needs to be preserved.
6) Prof Pham Minh Hac, former
Minister of Education and Training: problems exist in textbooks
When I was the minister, I
decided to eliminate difficult mathematics questions out of textbooks which
were marked with star (*), because students just needed to receive basic
knowledge. Meanwhile, nowadays, difficult mathematics questions have been given
regularly to students. Mathematics alone has over 100 reference books.
A teacher who devoted all of his
life to math teaching, said 50 percent of the knowledge in the math curriculums
for general schools is unnecessary.
7) Prof Nguyen Xuan Han: The
current curricula harm students
Students of general schools have
to work with too many of books, while students of universities lack books and
lesson plans to study.
Han emphasized the necessity of
recompiling the textbooks for students, saying that it is necessary to cut
30-50 percent of information in them.
Compiled by C. V
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