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Former Education Publisher chairman arrested over $1 million bribe allegations

The former Chairman of the Vietnam Education Publishing House, Nguyen Duc Thai, has been arrested for allegedly accepting nearly VND 24.9 billion ($1 million) in bribes.

Textbook market: monopoly is behind all the problems

The Ministry of Education and Training takes on all the work, including compiling, verifying, approving, and printing and distributing textbooks. In other words, it holds a monopoly.


Educators struggle to create competitive textbook market

 VietNamNet Bridge – If the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) acts as a textbook compiler, the textbook market cannot be competitive, analysts have said.