Vietnam offers free education to Marxism students

France24 ^ | 08/16/2013 | AFP

[TexGrill]

AFP - Vietnam is offering free classes in Marxism, Leninism and the teachings of Ho Chi Minh in a bid to revive interest in the ideology behind the country's system of government.

Philosophy students will not have to pay university tuition fees under a new scheme aimed at encouraging more people to embrace the unpopular classes.

"We have not received enough applications for these subjects," a professor of philosophy at a state university told AFP on condition of anonymity Thursday because he was not authorised to speak to the press.

"Students only apply for subjects which offer realistic prospects of helping them get a job," he added.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed a decree last month on the fee exemption, which will apply to students at state universities who agree to study the works of the approved pantheon of orthodox communist thinkers.

Fees for state universities in Vietnam average some five million dong ($240) per year but a small number of foreign-run universities charge far higher sums.

The quality of local universities can be lacking -- a recent education ministry survey said some 60 percent of recent graduates need retraining to meet the requirements of future employers -- and many Vietnamese parents send their children to study abroad at great expense.

The fee waiver will apply for the next two years, according to a copy of the decree seen by AFP.

But it is unlikely to result in significantly more applications for the unpopular subjects, students said.

[TexGrill]

Global Obama 'Common Core' education tip

[Army Air Corps]

Well, it is worth nothing.

[Kickass Conservative]

Is “Vietnam” Lib speak for Harvard?

[rktman]

Will king hussein be a guest speaker? He is well versed in marxism. Thanks frank.

[Still Thinking]

Vietnam offers free education to Marxism students

That seems appropriate. However, the students should be required to send in whatever money they earn for the rest of their lives.

[golux]

VIETNAMESE: HO SAYS "BE EDUCATED!" Just like the 2.5 million we tortured to death for being educated!

[AlexW]

Well, if America is becoming the Marxist USSA, why not Viet Nam? God only knows what the US will be by the time Obumbo leaves office, if he ever does.

[KarlInOhio]

So, the communists charge less for the less demanded class? Isn't that awfully capitalist of them? Shouldn't they be charging strictly according the the students' ability to pay for the class, irrespective of the number of students wishing to take the class? Karl Marx is rolling in his grave.

[KarlInOhio]

VIETNAMESE: HO SAYS "BE EDUCATED!" Just like the 2.5 million we tortured to death for being educated!

I think you're confusing Ho Chi Minh with Pol Pot from Cambodia.

[Rembrandt]

“..the students should be required to send in whatever money they earn for the rest of their lives.”

That’s very good. You’ve just defined Communism.

[max americana]

we get free lessons in marxism on CNN and the lib media, why go to school for it?

[clearcarbon]

"Philosophy students will not have to pay university tuition fees under a new scheme aimed at encouraging more people to embrace the unpopular classes."

Socialism is an unnatural act.

[Still Thinking]

Yup! Get free stuff, but everything that’s yours gets confiscated forever.

[golux]

I think you're confusing Ho Chi Minh with Pol Pot from Cambodia.

No, that was John Kerry. The communist leadership in both countries directly caused the physical extermination of their countries' upper and educated classes.