The high results that the Vietnamese 15-year old students gained from the PISA tests is the Vietnamese pride and joy. However, this has also made Vietnamese embarrassed: why is Vietnam still poor, though its people are very intelligent?

There are so numerous people with high education (bachelors, masters and PhDs) in Vietnam that they have been compared as the “yellow leaves in the autumn.”

Serious mistakes have been found recently in a lot of reference books for students. How can teachers teach their students if they themselves don’t have good basic knowledge?

Corruption related to recruitment of public servants still occurs because of inadequacies in the competitive exams. In the government apparatus, up to 30% of civil servants are good for nothing, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Vietnamese students have more learning subjects and receive bigger volumes of knowledge everyday than the students from any other countries. However, they don’t have basic knowledge about history, nature and the things around them.