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Da Nang Secretary used degrees from unaccredited school

VietNamNet Bridge - The highest ranking leader of the central city of Da Nang has been using degrees granted by an unaccredited educational institution.

PhDs leave research institute because of starvation wages

VietNamNet Bridge - Many researchers with doctorates last year left the Biotechnology Institute of the Vietnam Science & Technology Academy because they could not live on the monthly wage of VND3 million.

CAAV head apologises for requesting inquiry into aviation expert’s degree

VietNamNet Bridge - The head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), Lai Xuan Thanh, has apologized to Tran Dinh Ba, an aviation expert, for asking the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) to examine Ba’s doctorate.

Many educators and state officials found using counterfeit degrees

VietNamNet Bridge - Many general school teachers and university lecturers were recently found as not having  education degrees required for their jobs, while they have been working on posts for many years.

Will 72,000 redundant bachelors, masters continue studying for doctorate?

Vietnamese students have been caught in a vicious circle: they try to obtain university education at any costs, but become redundant after the graduation. Therefore, they have to continue studying for master degree to become redundant once again.

MOET revokes economics university lecturer’s doctorate

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training on October 4 released the decision to revoke the doctorate of Hoang Xuan Que, Deputy Head of the Finance & Banking Institute, an arm of the Hanoi National Economics University.

Young intellectuals don’t want to return to Vietnam

Thousands of Vietnamese young intellectuals leave Vietnam every year to attend training courses overseas. Very few of them return to Vietnam after finishing the training courses.

Universities keep the doors open to welcome postgraduates

A lot of people, who have just graduated universities, or finished schools many years ago, now rush to attend training courses to obtain higher degrees before the State tightens the postgraduate education management.

Rushing to study to obtain a master degree, for what?

It is now a growing tendency for people to follow further studies to obtain master degrees and doctorates. However, the majority of them follow higher education just for job promotion, not for scientific research.