[Vnbiz] Education Reform

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

According to this article 60 percent of students who took the university
entrance exams have not made it.  It means 60% of candidates won't have an
opportunity for university education.

In today's global economy, the bachelor degree is generally the lowest
degree in the market place.  Other than a few exceptional cases, it is very
difficult to find any decent job in today's economy without a university
degree.

This means, more than 60 percent of of our nation's highschool graduates
will not have an opportunity to participate in the global economy
meaningfully. That means, our labor force is not going to be very
competitive in the global economy.  That means, we have a great chance to
lose the competitive battle against other nations.

Instead of opening more colleges and schools very quickly to bring more
opportunity to the kids and to help everyone to be effectively competitive
in the global economy, the government has for years held on the monopoly on
the education system, and strangled it with all kinds of political controls,
including political ideology and Party mechanism.   Private universities can
hardly develop.  Religious organizations are banned from opening schools
(other than a couple of schools teaching religious matters), even though the
best universities around the world are mostly run by religious
organizations.

Every time I talked to ANY friend INSIDE Vietnam about opening a university,
the first response I got ALWAYS was: "Forget it.  Not worth it.  They will
control everything.  They will force you to follow hundreds of stupid
things.  You won't be able to run your school effectively.  You will go
crazy.  Not worth it."

You now, cutting off the opportunity of a youth to develop in life is a
crime.  And that is not just a crime against the youth, it is the crime
against the nation.  Our youth is our nation's future.  If our youth has few
opportunities today, our nation will have few opportunities in the world
tomorrow.   We all shall die, but our children and grand children will bear
the punishment from our own stupidity after we have gone.

Have a great day!

Hoanh

On 8/8/06, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>    Dear CACC,
> Here is another article about another vice dean at the Broadcasting
> College (the college where Do Tu Dong taught) showing students how to
> teach.  Probably the entire faculty of this school is bad and there is no
> good person there.
>
> Anyway, let me ask you all these questions for us all to think about:
>
> What is the root cause of such a tremendous problem in the ducation
> system?
>
> 1.   Is that because we don't have enough money?  Would pumping more money
> into the system improve things?
>
> 2.  Is that because we don't have police in the school?  Would putting
> more police in the school help?  Do we want police in the school anyway?
>
> 3.  Is that because we have bad curriculum?  Would changing curriculum
> help?
>
> 4. Is that because teachers simply lack moral?  If yes, why do they lack
> moral?  Because they are poor?  Are we saying that the poor lack moral and
> the rich have moral?
>
> Is that because they simply lose their sense of morality?  Why would they
> lose their morality?  Because they don't believe in morality any more?  Then
> what are they believing in?  Their own sense of being untoucheable?  Why do
> they believe that they are untoucheable?
>
> 5.  How bad do you think the system is?  Do you think that cheating,
> harassing students, forcing students to have sex, showing students how to
> cheat are just some isolated events here and there or they are abundant
> throughout the entire education system in onre form or another?
>
> 6. The bottome line:  What do you think the root cause of the education
> problems is?  (I define "root cause" loosely here as "the most important
> cause."  If that cause is not fixed, any other solution may not help al
> all, or may help very little).
>
> Please feel free to chip in.
>
> Have a great day!
>
> Hoanh
> _________
>   Thứ ba, 8/8/2006, 08:05 GMT+7
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>
> Thêm một phó trưởng khoa 'chạy' điểm cho học sinh
>
> Sau vụ gạ đổi "tình" lấy điểm<http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Xa-hoi/2006/07/3B9EC69A/>thi tốt nghiệp của ông Đỗ Tư Đông đối với nữ sinh
> V.A, một nữ sinh khác lại tiết lộ đoạn băng ghi âm buổi huấn luyện cách
> đánh dấu bài thi tốt nghiệp của ông Đỗ Đức Trọng, Phó trưởng khoa Báo chí CĐ
> Phát thanh Truyền hình Trung ương I, nhằm giúp học sinh "chạy" điểm.
>   [image: Trường CĐ Phát thanh Truyền hình Trung ương I. Ảnh: T.D.] CĐ
> Phát thanh Truyền hình Trung ương I. Ảnh: *T.D*.
>
> Chuyện diễn ra tại nhà riêng của ông Trọng, vào tối 23/7, trước ngày các
> học sinh khóa 8 Biên tập (hệ trung cấp) thi tốt nghiệp. Ông Trọng hứa giúp
> và lấy ra một cây bút mang nhãn hiệu "A", loại mực màu xanh và yêu cầu học
> sinh trong bài thi phải viết bằng loại bút đó.
>
> Học sinh tỏ ra lo lắng: "Nhưng người ta nói mình làm dấu trong bài thì sao
> ạ?". Ông phó trưởng khoa trấn an ngay: "Không. Không vấn đề gì đâu. Kệ nó",
> rồi chỉ cho học trò đánh dấu bài bằng cách "gạch 2 gạch ngang, đánh 3 dấu
> sao ở giữa".
>
> Sau khi hướng dẫn học trò cách đánh những ký hiệu đặc biệt vào bài thi,
> ông Trọng úp mở: "Tôi nhờ người ta giúp cô. Không còn cách nào khác. Tôi nhờ
> người ta giúp được thì được. Tôi không tham gia chấm thi".
>
> Theo kết quả xác minh ban đầu, ông Trọng khẳng định có hướng dẫn học sinh
> cách đánh dấu những ký hiệu đặc biệt vào bài thi tốt nghiệp. Tuy nhiên, ông
> Trọng lại biện minh việc ông ta làm "hoàn toàn trong sáng" và nhằm giúp đỡ
> học sinh đó thi đỗ trong kỳ thi tốt nghiệp vừa qua.
>
> Liên quan đến sự việc trên, trước đó 2 ngày, khi học sinh đến nhờ vả, sau
> khi tiết lộ thông tin liên quan đến đề thi tốt nghiệp năm nay, ông Trọng
> (một trong những người ra đề thi) đã chủ động hẹn học sinh này tối 23/7 đi
> một mình đến nhà riêng để lấy tài liệu ôn thi.
>
> (Theo *Thanh Niên*)
>
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Attorney of Law
> Washington DC
>



-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
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