Post by pizonethe LyceeVT admisnistration do their job only what, how, and when their commie boss tell them to do.
if those stupid slat-songsai commu leaders don't say anything, then they're free to do nothing, except corruption, collecting money from students parents for school entrance or selling test score.
pizone
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/12/education-vietnam
The PISA scores, as they are known, measured how a half-million students from randomly selected schools answered written and multiple-choice questions in a two-hour test. Mathematics was the primary focus, but students were also evaluated on reading, science and problem-solving.
Coverage of the scores by the Western news media suggested that the impressive maths performance by Vietnam, where per-capita GDP is only about $1,600, was perhaps a bit humbling for education officials in Washington, London and other self-regarding world capitals.
What explains Vietnam's good score? Christian Bodewig of the World Bank says it reflects, among other positive things, years of investment in education by the government and a "high degree of professionalism and discipline in classrooms across the country".
But Mr Bodewig adds that the score may be impressive in part because so many poor and disadvantaged Vietnamese students drop out of school. The World Bank reports that in 2010 the gross enrolment rate at upper-secondary schools in Vietnam was just 65%, compared with 89% and 98% in America and Britain, respectively. South Korea's rate was 95%.
A chorus of Vietnamese education specialists say that Vietnam's PISA score does not fully reflect the reality of its education system, which is hamstrung by a national curriculum that encourages rote memorisation over critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
"Every child in this country learns the same thing," and nationwide tests merely reinforce the intellectual homogeneity that results, in the lament of To Kim Lien, the director of the Centre for Education and Development, a Vietnamese non-profit in Hanoi. Ms Lien reckons that instead of catalysing educational reform, the score might provide a convenient excuse for complacency in matters of policy. And the old-fashioned, inward-looking Ministry of Education and Training, she adds, is a past master at complacency.
Another systemic problem is a general lack of "integrity" in Vietnam's education sector, in the words of Nguyen Thi Kieu Vien of the Global Transparency Education Network, a new initiative of Transparency International, a watchdog based in Berlin. In a recent survey the organisation found that 49% of Vietnamese respondents perceived their education sector to be "corrupt" or "highly corrupt".
The percentage was higher than that found in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia. Corruption is plainly evident at elite Vietnamese schools, where slots for pupils are routinely sold for $3,000 each. Yet it also exists on a smaller scale, in subtler forms. Many Vietnamese teachers hold extra tuitions, outside of regular school hours, for a small fee of between $2.50 and $5 per lesson. Not all parents can afford to pay these fees, and so the practice tends to exacerbate inequality.
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http://vietnamnews.vn/opinion/op-ed/240998/corruption-%E2%80%98hurting-education.html
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Vietnam, being close to 100M people and as a large, developing economy, it is being wooed by the West, because of the large consumer base... so Vietnam knows, even as a one-party correct leadership rule system, it is being watched.
So SOME criticisms, by local writers (if not too deep researched) are allowed.
I never read or hear serious criticism of Laos People's Democratic Republic, so I must assume it is doing very well, with little to no bribery corruption in education... like there's none in politics, economics and commerce...