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Teaching quality issues
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Limitation on practical skills in higher education for jobs' expectation
During the 1990s, Vietnam reached a major increase in its economy–with annual GDP growth of 5 to 7 percent–as well as a rapid educational growth within the country. Ever since then, the net enrollment rates in Vietnam have increased at least 95 percent for primary and secondary schools. However, as impressive as its performance has been, improvements are still needed in the country's educational quality and quantity.

Vietnam's education fails to catch up with the world's development, which affects the country negatively when compared with other countries in an aspect of employment. For quality, the current textbooks that are used for schools are reported to be too theoretical and abstract. And for quantity, there have been reports saying students are overloaded with course work and school hours. In other words, Vietnam needs a changed in its system to provide students a better knowledgable background: hand-on training should be offered to students rather than fixed training programs. However, being one of the world's poorest countries, the country lacks funding to achieve this goal during the modernization process.

Since the 1998's implementation of higher education reform, the Vietnamese Higher Education (VHE)'s quality has been noticeably low and may not meet the threshold for the national workforce as companies claimed to not have yet found applicants that meet their expected requirements. In 2017, the quality score of the country's workforce alerted the government to put more effort in fixing the educational system in the country: 3.79 out of 10, with 10 is the higher score possible. With that being said, there is a need for academic reform in Vietnamese Higher Education to match the employers' expectations.