Principles and General Objectives of Education

Educational development in Vietnam is aimed at improving general knowledge, training the workforce, and fostering talented people while broadening the scope of education and improving its quality and results, in order to contribute to the State goal of “rich people, strong country, and civilized and equal society.”

More specifically, the goal of education is to train independent and creative persons who can use their professional skills and knowledge to work hard and meet the needs of national construction and defence, while being sensitive to the genius of Vietnamese culture, fully combining the inheritance of national traditions and the broader human civilization.

The education and training policy is aimed at raising the people’s intellectual level, training manpower, nurturing talent, and forming a pool of workers with knowledge and skills, practical ability, a dynamic and creative mind, revolutionary virtues, patriotism and love for socialism. Schools should train young people in the direction of comprehensive knowledge coupled with specialization, and the awareness and capacity for self-employment in a mixed commodity economy.