June 9, 2006

Higher Education Lags Behind the Times in Vietnam

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

Outdated thinking in the classroom hampers the country's reform efforts

When the American War — as it is known in Vietnam — raged, every college student here was required to know how to fire a rifle and throw a grenade. Today the war is long over and memories of that terrible time are fading.

Yet Nguyen Phuong Thao, a literature major at Vietnam National University at Hanoi, is still required to spend several weeks of every year on the campus's mock

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