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High achievers don’t want to work for state agencies: NA deputy

Most high-achieving university graduates prefer working for foreign-invested enterprises which are willing to pay thousands of dollars a month compared to state agencies that receive several millions of VND

Talents don’t want to be civil servants in Hanoi, scientists say goodbye to HCMC

The Ministry of Home Affairs is building a national strategy on attracting talents for important posts by 2030 with a vision towards 2045, which is expected to be submitted to the government for issuance in 2023.

Talent at state agencies have to queue up for opportunities

Deputy Chair of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture and Education Nguyen Thi Mai Hoa said many talented officials at state agencies cannot grasp opportunities, leading to a waste of talent.

Civil servants “fear of responsibility”: National Assembly deputy

Fear of taking responsibility has become commonplace among cadres and civil servants.

Hospitals struggling to gain full self-autonomy to prevent brain drain

Hospitals and medical workers have been so far struggling to achieve full self- autonomy.

Training costs are high, but students stay abroad to work: experts

Vietnam is facing a brain drain: elite intellectuals trained abroad do not return, while some in Vietnam seek opportunities to work abroad.

Vietnamese lecturers want to be paid better

Up to 55 per cent of lecturers of the National Academy of Public Administration – Central Highlands Campus are eager to change jobs as they expect a pay increase if they do so.

Do we want to reverse or advance our brain drain?

A professor at Hoa Sen University in HCM City who shot to fame when he taught a class on innovation wearing a pair of shorts has come up short at the hand of some bureaucrats’ rigid interpretation of regulations.

Universities lose money, staff when sending lecturers abroad

VietNamNet Bridge - Many university lecturers, who study abroad on school funding, do not return after graduation. It is nearly impossible to recoup the training cost. 

Vietnamese IT firms endangered with brain drain

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese IT firms are willing to offer the high monthly pay of $1,500-2,000 to attract Vietnamese software engineers.

Vietnam faces serious brain-drain

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more scientists leave research institutes for enterprises, where they can find better jobs. How will the scientific research institutes operate without scientists?