At a conference held on Expanding the International School Model in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this week, the city’s Department of Education and Training (DoET) said the schools have many shortcomings. Although the schools employ around 1,000 teachers, including 530 foreign teachers with university degrees, conference’s participants said many international schools were still hiring teachers without any educational expertise. Nguyen Hoang Viet, principal of Phu Nhuan High School, said the ministry and department of education have yet to provide a clear-cut definition of international schools, so the public has no idea about their quality and the standard of education provided. Minh said the city’s education department will organize a seminar next year on infrastructure for establishing schools in HCMC, including private and international schools. According to the Ministry of Education and Training, as of last year, 70 percent of international schools in Vietnam were run by embassies, international organizations and foreign investors. read more

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