Most of the winners of the Road to Olympia TV show leave for Australia and do not return to Vietnam.

Most of the winners of ‘Road to Olympia’ leave Vietnam for Australia where they study and stay after graduating.

VietNamNet Bridge - The students who got the highest scores at the national high-school finals have successfully enrolled in the universities of their choice.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some of the outstanding achievements of young people in 2017:

Dr Do Quang Yen, a lecturer at the University of Virginia, who won one gold and one silver medal at the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematics Olympiads, says Vietnam lacks professors and leading experts who can develop talented students.

Able to read at 18 months and winner of many competitions, Phan Dang Nhat Minh is excelling at the ongoing 17th ‘Road to Olympia’.

VietNamNet Bridge - Whether Vietnamese students should return to Vietnam after they finish overseas study is a topic of hot debate on social networks.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly all high school students who won top prizes at competitions for excellent students, when asked about their future plans, said they want to study abroad.

“The story of Doan Minh Dang shows one of the reasons why some overseas students like us think that we can choose another way rather than come back to work in Vietnam,” said Nguyen Thanh Vinh, the runner up at the first ‘Road to Olympia’ competition.

 Doan Minh Dang, a lecturer at the Can Tho University of Technology, who was a champion 10 years ago at the ‘Road to Olympia’, a competition held annually for excellent high school students, is facing heavy discipline for ‘speaking ill’ of the school.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the winners at the “Road to Olympia,” a competition annually held for high school excellent students went studying abroad and settled down there after the university graduation.