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21-08-2017, 02:32 PM
In Vietnam, the Best Education Can Lead to Worse Job Prospects
By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen
August 21, 2017, 5:00 AM GMT+8
Nguyen Van Duc graduated two years ago with a bachelor’s degree in economics from one of Vietnam’s best universities. Today, he earns about $250 a month as a motorbike taxi driver in Hanoi.
Duc, whose parents took second jobs so he could be the only one of three children to attend college, is among thousands of Vietnamese college graduates who can’t land jobs in their chosen field, even though the nation’s unemployment rate is just 2.3 percent.
“In university, we only received heavy theoretical training and a lot of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology with communist party history,” the 25-year-old said.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-prospects
By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen
August 21, 2017, 5:00 AM GMT+8
Nguyen Van Duc graduated two years ago with a bachelor’s degree in economics from one of Vietnam’s best universities. Today, he earns about $250 a month as a motorbike taxi driver in Hanoi.
Duc, whose parents took second jobs so he could be the only one of three children to attend college, is among thousands of Vietnamese college graduates who can’t land jobs in their chosen field, even though the nation’s unemployment rate is just 2.3 percent.
“In university, we only received heavy theoretical training and a lot of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology with communist party history,” the 25-year-old said.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-prospects
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