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Vietnam 2011: Education and Training
WEF's Global Competitiveness Report (GCI) for Vietnam: Education and Training

Vietnam
 Thailand
 Cambodia
 Education


Quality of primary education. 83
 85
 101
Primary education enrollment, net % 64
 95
 104

Secondary education enrollment, gross % 103
 94
 121

Tertiary education enrollment, gross % 110
 54 118

Quality of the educational system 69
 77 68

Quality of math and science education 59
 60 97

Quality of management schools 123
 73 112

Internet access in schools 42
 54 95

Availability of research and training services 119
 74 96

Extent of staff training 107
 56 97

(Source: www.weforum.org; table by: Business-in-Asia.com)


The World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Competitiveness Report (GCI) is an annual report published by the World Economic Forum since 1979. The 2011-2012 report covers 142 major and emerging economies. The Global Competitiveness Index measures the set of institutions, policies, and factors that set the sustainable current and medium-term levels of economic prosperity, depending on how productively a country uses available resources.
WEF Comments for 2011-2012
(Source: www.weforum.org)
 
"..Although education appears to be satisfactory in terms of quality, enrollment rates at all levels remain low (64th, 103rd, and 110th for primary, secondary, and tertiary enrollments, respectively).


Our Comments
  • According to the GCI table aboe, Vietnam's availability of research and training services and extent of staff training were ranked lower than Thailand and Cambodia.  This is the area that seriously needed attention from the government.
  • Educate workforce should get better.  We note the recent opening of Eastern International University (EIU) in Binh Duong as a clear step in the right direction.  Some provinces like Binh Duong have clearly gotten the message on the need for a better trained workforce and are moving ahead.  This effort needs to be expanded, however, throughout the country if Vietnam wants to become more competetive.
  • Vietnamese higher education institutions often use a large number of part-time lecturers besides their core faculty members. According to the local news, local experts have criticized the fact that so many junior colleges and universities have been established in recent years in Vietnam, leading to the shutdown of many programs due to too few applications.  Recently, the ministry of Education and Training inspected and banned universities that showed their student-lecturer ratios well exceeded the national standards, meaning a lecturer has to teach too many students, while also failing to own an appropriate amount of teaching space. Three local universities have publicly protested a ban. Ho Chi Minh City-based schools, Van Hien University and Information Technology College Ho Chi Minh City, and the Hanoi-based Dong Do University are the three that got banned. Twelve majors programs at four other universities – Chu Van An University in Hung Yen Province, Luong The Vinh University in Nam Dinh Province, Nguyen Trai University in Hanoi, and Da Nang Architecture University in Da Nang City – are also prohibited from admitting new students for the upcoming academic year, as they lack full-time lecturers with master’s or PhD degrees, and have a student-lecturer ratio that is too high.

    The bans are the result of its recent inspections at 24 higher education institutions across the country. According to The board chairman of Dong Do University in Hanoi, the other school, told Dat Viet that the ministry had used outdated statistics when working out its number of students.
    “The supervisory body did not properly count our faculty members as it did at other schools,” Nguyen Thanh Tinh, the chairman, added. “That’s why it obtained a very high student-lecturer ratio.”
More detailed analysis of the report:
The Global Competitiveness Index measures the set of institutions, policies, and factors that set the sustainable current and medium-term levels of economic prosperity, depending on how productively a country uses available resources.

Vietnam: Institutions          
Property rights, Intellectual property protection, Irregular payments and bribes, Favoritism in decisions of government officials, Wastefulness of government spending, Burden of government regulation, Efficiency of legal framework in settling disputes, Transparency of government policymaking, Business costs of terrorism, Business costs of crime and violence, Strength of investor protection

Vietnam: Infrastructure & Technological readiness
Quality of overall infrastructure (road, port, airport), Quality of electricity supply, Fixed telephone lines/100 pop, Mobile telephone subscriptions, Availability of latest technologies, DI and technology transfer, Internet users, Broadband Internet subscriptions, Internet bandwidth

Vietnam: Inflation
annual % change

Vietnam: Education and Training
Quality of primary education, Primary education enrollment, Secondary education enrollment, Quality of the educational system, Quality of math and science education, Quality of management schools, Internet access in schools, Availability of research and training services, Extent of staff training

Vietnam: Goods market efficiency
Intensity of local competition, Extent of market dominance, Extent and effect of taxation, Total tax rate, No. procedures and days to start a business, Business impact of rules on FDI,  Buyer sophistication

Vietnam: Labor market efficiency
Cooperation in labor-employer relations, Rigidity of employment, Brain drain

Vietnam: Market size
Domestic market size, Foreign market size

Vietnam: Business sophistication & Innovation
Local supplier quantity, Local supplier quality, State of cluster development, Extent of marketing.
Capacity for innovation, Quality of scientific research institutions, vailability of scientists and engineers


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