Hardly a week goes by without a Vietnamese parent telling me if they can afford it they’ll send their children to be educated abroad and the U.S. is the first country they usually mention. For many Vietnamese families it’s a status symbol to send their children abroad to study, thus assuring a higher level of technical formation. In the U.S. alone there are over 20,000 Vietnamese students, most enrolled at undergraduate level. Now take a look at this chart produced by the World Bank indicating TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) scores by country based on GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Most of the data plotted follows the trend we would expect – i.e. the richest countries produce the highest scoring students, but there is one exception: Vietnam stands alone on the left side as a low-GDP country whose students score high on the TIMSS tests. How can that be? There have been many studies similar to the World Bank one above conducted by organizations worldwide and they all lead to a similar result where Vietnam is concerned, to such degree that a common term has surfaced for this phenomenon: “The Vietnam effect”. Simply put, Vietnamese students study harder, persevere more, work closely with their teachers, and their parents are heavily involved in their studies and school life in general. Institutions have less money to spend on computers but plenty of access to the internet, so resources are leveraged and shared among students. Does that surprise you? It doesn’t… [Read full story]
The funds were sourced from international financial institutions, such as the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency.Of the total, 1.76 billion USD was earmarked for power projects. EVN said international cooperation contributed significantly to its growth in 2016, with the WB and ADB supporting the group in studying long-term programmes on finance, management restructuring, renewable energy and infrastructure development.The group has worked with regional electricity companies to research power exchange as well as continued projects within the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS), including the building of a GMS electricity trade centre. Theo TTXVN/Vietnam +... [read more]
The report was presented by Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh atthe opening session of the 11 th National Party Congress in Hanoion Jan. 12.The Vietnam News Agency published main contents of the report.Reviewingfive years of implementing the 10 th Party Congress’s resolution, thereport identified advantages brought about by the renewal process andinternational integration, as well as mentioning difficulties andchallenges caused by deep-rooted weaknesses of the national economy.Italso mentioned natural disasters, disease epidemics, complicateddevelopments in the region and the world, impacts from the globaleconomic recession and financial crisis, as well as subversive andviolence-incited activities and the “peaceful revolution” undertaken byhostile…... [read more]
In the effort to give you more and more about Vietnam Tourism development, we try our best to uprade the content as well as the layout of official websites of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.Beside vietnamtourism.com, vietnamtourism.gov.vn focus on VNAT's activities, central and provincial state policy on tourism developement. Also, several topics will be discussed among tourist specialists and tourists themselves.... [read more]
