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vabeckele
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 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:55 am Post subject: Can anyone confirm this? |
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I have just been told the government of Vietnam is to prevent Vietnamese children from the age 12 down from attending any international school where the primary language of instruction is in English.
Is this true?
I have heard the only way to get round this is to attend a school that is bi-lingual. |
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VietCanada
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Off the top of my head I'd point out that this is Vietnam and the Vietnamese should be educated in their language. Learning in English should be secondary. |
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spycatcher reincarnated
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:04 am Post subject: |
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There was a new decree a few months ago, which said amongst other things. At foreign invested international schools (NB: doesn't apply to Vietnamese owned):
No Vietnamese could study below grade 1
From grade 1 to 9 only 20% of students could be Vietnamese
From grades 10 to 12 only 10% could be Vietnamese
My immediate thoughts were:
Looks like Vietnamese owned schools have been lobbying the government.
Their %s look to be random. If a school has 50 year nine students then 10 of them could be Vietnamese and the rest foreign. Let's say the 40 foreigners progress to year 10, then only 4 Vietnamese students would be allowed to progress. Should the school auction these places to the 10 Vietnamese students who were in year 9?
This law, if implemented, will encourage more Vietnamese to get Cambodian passports and enter the International schools as foreigners. It will also encourage them to study overseas earlier and will be an economic drain on the country.
This law obviously has no academic logic to it as it only applies to foreign invested schools.
Does this comply with WTO? |
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vabeckele
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: A complicated issue |
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| spycatcher reincarnated wrote: |
There was a new decree a few months ago, which said amongst other things. At foreign invested international schools (NB: doesn't apply to Vietnamese owned):
No Vietnamese could study below grade 1
From grade 1 to 9 only 20% of students could be Vietnamese
From grades 10 to 12 only 10% could be Vietnamese
My immediate thoughts were:
Looks like Vietnamese owned schools have been lobbying the government.
Their %s look to be random. If a school has 50 year nine students then 10 of them could be Vietnamese and the rest foreign. Let's say the 40 foreigners progress to year 10, then only 4 Vietnamese students would be allowed to progress. Should the school auction these places to the 10 Vietnamese students who were in year 9?
This law, if implemented, will encourage more Vietnamese to get Cambodian passports and enter the International schools as foreigners. It will also encourage them to study overseas earlier and will be an economic drain on the country.
This law obviously has no academic logic to it as it only applies to foreign invested schools.
Does this comply with WTO? |
Yes, I heard of the 20 percent, but not of the 10. Very strange indeed. We all know to whom the 20 percent goes to anyway, to put these restrictions on the populace is all but ridiculous as 95 percent of the population cannot afford the fees anyway
You are right in saying people will find other avenues to educate their children, even to the detriment of losing the, little, culture that is given in Vietnamese schools. I have seem how one bi-lingual school really flounders when trying to combine Vietnamese norms of behaviour with those of the west; let's just say it is messy.
My only gripe is this: If the Vietnamese government schools cannot provide good enough standards, whether it be in infrastructure, culture, and especially on moral and ethical behaviour, then why should parents be denied the possibility of giving their children a better alternative? As you quite rightly pointed out, it will result in a greater effort to circumvent the restriction. |
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