What is the typical level of education in Vietnam?

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Charlie

It is impossible to say "Typical" in Vietnam as nothing is typical as we would no know it . It all depends on finances of the family and how integral the child is to the upkeep of the family . There are so many families that do not even enter the criteria we would see as the norm . Most children have a basic education and the few that excel usually have well of Vietnamese parents or ex-pats as fathers . In Vietnam everything has a price and education is part and parcel .

Lillian

in the cities they probably graduate highschool and often go to college as well. But I was visiting some villages outside of the city where the children didn't even go to school. They would try to sell things to the tourists to make money for their families rather than going to school. But also one of the women I met there showed a picture of her son who was my age (22) and said he was at university.

twopetetall

as others have said it depends on were you live
as most of the vietnames and not the monritys
must go to school as even they who live there do not know is if you are a Montagnard you are not allowed to go to school as that goverment
does not want them to learn

vy311

A great proportion of the population are able to read and write and many of them, especially in the cities, have primary or middle education.

rick m

I'm not sure I can provide you with the kind of facts that you are looking for, but the younger generation is very well educated. Most graduate from high school and a large proportion of them attend college. In fact, the Vietnamese Army no longer accepts recruits who do not possess a high school diploma.
Almost all high school kids speak a foreign language with a decent level of fluency and most choose English as their foreign language.
I believe Viet Nam has one of the highest literacy rates in the entire world. You could probably google that fact.
The older generation is not nearly as well "schooled".but are incredibly adept at capitalism. I just returned from a day in Saigon and I lost count of all the S-Class Mercedes' and 7 Series BMW's I saw. (I only counted one Bentley LOL).
Anyway, the older generation places a very high premium on education. Their children (and mine) will do very well in school because that is what we, their parents, expect. My eldest is in grade school, has a private tutor 5 hours a week, as do many of her friends, and she gets excellent grades. When she graduates from high school we will probably send her to the US for her university and graduate degrees.

@ "Lillian", There are so many children in this country that the schools run on 4 hour "shifts". Some semesters my daughter goes to school from 7am to 11am. Others she attends 1pm to 5 pm. Thats why you always see children hanging around or working as vendors:-)

@"Stevie", I don't know when you lived here, but my daughter is in 5th grade and her education has always been free. We buy her uniforms and books, which as you know from living here, is a pittance. The younger people I know over here are for the most part, in school or graduated. I know a couple of drop-outs, nice people, but kind of stupid. One guy failed the first grade 4 times,,, he said he really liked his teacher and didn't want to leave.(true story, lol)

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