For a country to become economically successful, they need to seek and invest into higher education. By having higher education, it becomes much easier for people to find jobs and create new opportunities for the country to benefit and grow economically. From the article, “National Policies on Skilled Labour and the Cross-border Student Market, with a Focus on Vietnam”, the author, Cate Gribble, explains that funded Vietnamese students pursue an education overseas and “no overseas students will be allowed to work in the host country for more than 3 years after graduating”. The Vietnamese students tends to stay in the overseas country and not return back home. I find this to be somewhat surprising, but from what we talked about in lecture, it makes sense in that Vietnam is still redeveloping itself after the Vietnam War. The country is still under construction and that the students are able to find jobs easier overseas. The idea of remittances is also applied where the Vietnamese students have a great job overseas and can still give back and support their families back home. However, these Vietnamese students are important people because they can also bring back what they know to their home country and help reinvent itself and become economically successful.
Question: What does Vietnam have to do to create a higher education system within their own country?
Work Cited
Cate Gribble. “National Policies on Skilled Labour and the Crossborder Student Market, with a Focus on Vietnam.”
Image Link: http://img.cdn2.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2012/01/11/10/20120111104306_edu3012.jpg
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