Mai Vang- Week 9

From the article, “National Policies on Skilled Labor and the Cross-border Student Market, with a Focus on Vietnam”,  we are introduced to the relationship between Vietnam and the Vietnamese students studying abroad. Students who goes abroad are either scholarship funded or self-funded. As the majority of the students are self-funded, they often return home to find good jobs. Vietnam has taken important measures to make the process of studying abroad easier because a better education will lead to success. Vietnam wants to focus on improving their economic success and so, they find and open job opportunities to motivate the students return. However, there are students who choose to stay. Vietnam does not take this into serious concern because they still benefit from this situation. Those who choose to stay contribute to the economic growth by sending money back to their family in the homeland. In 2008, "overseas remittance was $7.2 million, or 8% of Vietnams GDP." Throughout this article, we see that Vietnam put a lot of their hopes on their students. Students are the leading factor that will develop a better Vietnam.

Question: Is English taught to the students as a second language?

Cate Gribble. “National Policies on Skilled Labour and the Cross­border Student Market, with a  Focus on Vietnam.”