TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Education at a crossroads
LOGAN WILLIAMS believes there are lessons to be learned from Vietnam’s education system whose excellence is recognised internationally
Hanoi – Amsterdam High School, awarded the 2nd degree Labor Order (2000), the title of Hero of Labor (2000) and the 1st degree Labor Order (2005) from the Vietnamese government
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The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
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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