Posts Tagged ‘ Brain Drain ’

Overseas Vietnamese warn about brain drain due to indifference to science 

January 16, 2012
Overseas Vietnamese warn about brain drain due to indifference to science 

  Many overseas Vietnamese scientists have been returning to the country in recent years to work in education and research, and they are troubled by the indifference shown towards both pure science and their return. Educational institutions needed to be more enthusiastic about pure science or the country would suffer a severe brain drain that could last for a [...]

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Opponents call overseas students regulations “unsuitable”

December 20, 2009
Opponents call overseas students regulations “unsuitable”

LookAtVietnam – A National Assembly’s deputy said that the draft document on overseas student management is really unsuitable. Vietnamese students in the UKThuyet, in an interview given to Tuoi Tre newspaper, said that it is necessary to regulate Vietnamese students studying abroad. He observed that management remains inefficient in some countries and sometimes students cannot [...]

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Education fails the nation

October 3, 2009
Education fails the nation

Writing on the wall: A class in progress at the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City Teacher friendly policies and more effective school management are urgent imperatives, experts say. Vietnam’s education sector is in a crisis, with universities not producing the educated workforce that the nation’s economy and society need.In an “opinionated analysis” [...]

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Bold scheme to curb brain drain

April 23, 2009
Bold scheme to curb brain drain

LookAtVietnam – Soon after returning from Cambridge University where she earned a masters degree in international relations, Do Quynh Chi was excited to go back to her old job at the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. Excellent students receive awards presented by the Ministry of Education and Training. The Government has acted positively [...]

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Doctor rotation cuts bed overload, brain drain

April 16, 2009
Doctor rotation cuts bed overload, brain drain

LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Duc Thuan, a doctor from the Central Hospital of Obstetrics in Ha Noi, returned home after three months relief work at a rural hospital nearly 300km away. A doctor from Ha Noi’s Bach Mai Hospital training young nurses and doctors who then will work in rural provinces.Although the rotation was a long [...]

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Getting overseas students back home

March 29, 2009
Getting overseas students back home

LookAtVietnam – The brain drain and lack of practical education were among the major problems facing the country, students and leading members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union told HCM City education officials at a conference yesterday.Students from 130 high schools in the city attended the meeting organised by the municipal Department of [...]

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Overseas study trend: Leave sooner, return later

March 6, 2009
Overseas study trend: Leave sooner, return later

“The first thing that talented Vietnamese students think nowadays is how to go studying abroad,” said Nguyen Thanh Hung, Deputy Principal of the Gifted School under the HCM City National University. Students seeking information about overseas studyDr Hung said that when enrolling students for 10th class, the school always receives more than the allowed number [...]

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Best and brightest disappear down the brain drain

March 5, 2009
Best and brightest disappear down the brain drain

High school students look for information about foreign schools at the 6th International Education and Career Expo in Ho Chi Minh City last month. More and more Vietnamese are studying abroad, but how many of them will come back after graduating? It has been years since Nguyen Thanh Hung, vice principal of Ho Chi Minh [...]

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South to get new private hospitals

March 4, 2009
South to get new private hospitals

The southern province of Dong Nai has 11 private hospitals now in various stages of planning or construction, worth a combined VND4 trillion (US$228.6 million), according to director of the province’s health department Tu Thanh Chuong. VietNamNet Bridge – The southern province of Dong Nai has 11 private hospitals now in various stages of planning [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...