VietNamNet Bridge – They are all very young, because they were born in 1980s. However, they are all considered “high income earners”, because they can pocket millions of dong a month. The common thing of the students is that they all have made investment in the education sector.

 

The little girl with big aspiration

 

Mai Phuong, the girl from Thai Nguyen City, related that she began earning money since she was a 7^th grader. At that time, Phuong worked as an English private tutor for the small children in the same residential quarter.

 

When she was at 11^th and 12^th grades, Phuong won the second and third prizes in the national English competitions, which then gave her a “widespread fame”. Her classes attracted more and more learners. Phuong always had busy summer holidays, because it was the time she focused on teaching English at the classes, from morning to the evening.

 

“I really love those days. The work of tutoring gave me money to purchase books which then helped me improve my English,” Phuong said.

 

Of course, the student with excellent English easily passed the university entrance exams and became a university student who cherished the hope of setting up a business of her own – a company which specializes in training foreign languages.

 

It did not take Phuong much time to come to the decision. “In August 2009, I graduated from the university and worked as the secretary at Kinh Do Group. During the working time, the aspiration of establishing a company has been growing in my mind,” she said.

 

AT first, the foreign language center of Phuong only had several tables and chairs made by her boyfriend – a skilled carpenter. However, with reasonable marketing method and the heavy investment in teaching quality, the company of the young owner now has 500 regular learners. The 20 officers and 50 foreign teachers of the company now get the monthly income of 5-10 million dong a month on average.

 

Phuong hopes that her company will become one of the three biggest foreign language centers in Hanoi.

 

The student who earn 1000 dollar from private tutoring

 

Phan Quang Diep, a student of FPT University, has become well known among university students, who call him a “big guy” because of the high monthly income of 1000 dollars, or 20 million dong (in Vietnam, the people with the income of 10 million dong a month are considered high income earners).

 

Diep was a student of the mathematics-informatics majoring class of the High School for the Gifted under the University for Natural Sciences. Therefore, he feels confident with the deep knowledge he has and he decided to give private tutoring lessons to the students who prepare to attend the exams of schools for the gifted in Hanoi.

 

At first, Diep was just the teacher of small classes, but later, when he became well known, he has been admitted to the teaching centers with big brands. By the end of the third year at university, Diep could earn 30-40 million dong, or 1500-2000 dollars a month, from regular tutoring.

 

“If I had not taken the job of tutoring, I would have still received money from parents, but I wanted to become independent,” he explained.

 

Now Diep is the Member of the Board of Directors and Deputy Director of a consultancy and training center in Hanoi, the job that many other people dream of.

 

The special class organized by special boys

 

This is really a “special class”, because the students here study under a special mode: they live, have meals and learn together with the teachers, who are the four special boys, Le Minh Thong, who came first at the 2009 entrance university exams to the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, Ha Khuong Duy and Nguyen Hoang Hai, who won the gold and silver medals at Mathematics Olympiads 2009, and Dinh Quang Cuong, who got 26.5 marks from the difficult university entrance exams 2009.

 

As the students can live, learn and play with the teachers, they can raise questions to the teachers at any time and receive answers. On average, a student has to pay 6 million dong a month, and the students will only have to pay the sum of money after they pass the exams.

 

The efforts by the special boys have brought initial results: four of the six students of the first training course are now studying at universities, while the other two at junior colleges.

 

Cuong, the head of the team, said that the initial success has prompted him and friends to expand the classes in a larger scale.

 

Van Chung