Minority to Be Taught in Own Language
August 21, 2001 - 0:0
HANOI -- In contrast to national policy, boys and girls of a Vietnamese hilltribe are to be taught in their native language, state media said on Monday, but officials say there are not enough qualified teachers to do the job. Beginning with the upcoming school session, schools throughout Daklak Province in the central highlands will teach select third grade classes in the Ede language, ***Lao Dong*** (labor) newspaper said. Education in the communist state has been almost exclusively in Vietnamese, despite the country's 53 ethnic minorities comprising about 14 percent of the population.