A survey by the Vietnam Education Science Institute has found out that 70 percent of high school students do not receive career orientation.  Students select a particular subject for university study simply because it is popular.  Meanwhile institutions provide some majors which are considered the hot and fashionable ones rather than to meet the labour market demand.

The Vietnamese government’s human resource development programme by 2020 aims to restructure the manpower to have 9% in basic sciences, 35 per cent in technologies, 20 per cent in economics and laws, 12 per cent in pedagogical branches, 9 per cent in agriculture/forestry/ fisheries, 6 per cent in healthcare, and 9 per cent in others, reports Vietnamnet.

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