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Education at a crossroads
LOGAN WILLIAMS believes there are lessons to be learned from Vietnam’s education system whose excellence is recognised internationally
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WE can still see a blight of problems effecting the British education system; the lack of access to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, the impact of poverty and an ever-worsening recruitment and retention crisis.
It is vital therefore that we seek to examine, and apply lessons from, progressive forms of education from across the globe like the Vietnamese education system, if we are to forge an education system ready to tackle the challenges facing us.
Education before independence
Education in Vietnam — before its westernisation under the French empire — was a developed system of education built around the ancient Chinese model based on the ideologies of Confucian philosophy to enable students to understand and remain loyal to the feudal system.
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