The Government has issued Decree 73/2012/NÐ-CP on foreign investment and cooperation in the field of education to be effective from 15 November 2012.

Under this decree, foreign-invested schools will be restricted in the number of Vietnamese students they can enrol to a maximum of 20 per cent.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the new decree was necessary to update regulations and improve management of co-operative activities in education by the State. It also followed a number of violations at foreign-invested institutions, reports VietnamNews