Into the Arms of the Rising Sun: Renseikai education system comes to Vietnam

[Aepsilons]

Vietnam is becoming a hotspot for foreign education investors due to the rising local demand for international training services.

Japan's Renseikai Group, a leading after-school system for six to 18-year-old students in Japan, established its subsidiary Rensei Vietnam in April 2015 after meticulously surveying the country since April 2014.

"As Vietnam boasts economic development potential and favourable conditions, more overseas businesses are showing interest in the educational sector, while existing investors have been working on their expansion plans. I found that many leading international groups, such as Singapore's Kinder World, the British University Vietnam, and Australia’s RMIT have been operating effectively here," Konno Yuji, general director of Rensei Vietnam, told VIR.

"As our educational method is entirely novel in Vietnam, we think it harbours great opportunities for our presence on the Vietnamese educational market," he added.

Rensei Vietnam plans to open its first centre at 49 Mac Dinh Chi, Ho Chi Minh City soon, and then its second and third school centres before the next Lunar New Year. Within three years thereafter, the firm hopes to build up to 10 centres in Ho Chi Minh City, and then increase the number of centres in a franchise system. Rensei Vietnam will also consider expanding to the entire Southeast Asian region, using Vietnam as the starting point, while carrying out market research in neighbouring countries.

Renseikai Group, which was established in 1977, now has 232 centres employing 454 people in 26 cities in Japan. It is one of the top 30 after-school systems in Japan.

In Japan, the group focuses on basic educational services, such as after-school classes for various subjects, one-on-one tuition and preparation courses for high school and university entrance examinations. By providing an effective teaching method, the group helps more than 2.000 students each year, enabling them to enter famous high schools in Hokkaido.



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[NiceGuy]

I hope JP economics universities wont come to VN coz they only teach BS lesson abt economy , just look at the plan of CN-JP currency swap, its a big lost for JP when CNY fall 2 % (and will continue to fall). of course JP economics universities will be the first one to be blamed for

 

[William Hung]

I hope JP economics universities wont come to VN coz they only teach BS lesson abt economy , just look at the plan of CN-JP currency swap, its a big lost for JP when CNY fall 2 % (and will continue to fall). of course JP economics universities will be the first one to blame for

Vietnamese officials still begging for Japanese investments...so Japan is still doing something better than Viet Nam. Or Vietnamese economic officials should go back working in their farm lol.

What about US universities, you prefer those more?

 

[DaiViet]

No worry, Fulbright university will be built in Vietnam next year will push Vietnam education to another level.

 

[NiceGuy]

Vietnamese officials still begging for Japanese investments...so Japan is still doing something better than Viet Nam. Or Vietnamese economic officials should go back working in their farm lol.

What about US universities, you prefer those more?

Nope, we just refused JP ODA in mega projects in Da Nang, we asked for loan from US instead. Vietnamese economic officials r OK, the best thing they did is to refuse VN-CNY swap and save our money from the fall of CNY while JP economic officials didnt realize that .

Abt US universities, I think we all love US universities teaching in high tech equipments and US Medical University ,too

 

[JaiMin]

Vietnam is becoming a hotspot for foreign education investors due to the rising local demand for international training services.

Japan's Renseikai Group, a leading after-school system for six to 18-year-old students in Japan, established its subsidiary Rensei Vietnam in April 2015 after meticulously surveying the country since April 2014.

"As Vietnam boasts economic development potential and favourable conditions, more overseas businesses are showing interest in the educational sector, while existing investors have been working on their expansion plans. I found that many leading international groups, such as Singapore's Kinder World, the British University Vietnam, and Australia’s RMIT have been operating effectively here," Konno Yuji, general director of Rensei Vietnam, told VIR.

"As our educational method is entirely novel in Vietnam, we think it harbours great opportunities for our presence on the Vietnamese educational market," he added.

Rensei Vietnam plans to open its first centre at 49 Mac Dinh Chi, Ho Chi Minh City soon, and then its second and third school centres before the next Lunar New Year. Within three years thereafter, the firm hopes to build up to 10 centres in Ho Chi Minh City, and then increase the number of centres in a franchise system. Rensei Vietnam will also consider expanding to the entire Southeast Asian region, using Vietnam as the starting point, while carrying out market research in neighbouring countries.

Renseikai Group, which was established in 1977, now has 232 centres employing 454 people in 26 cities in Japan. It is one of the top 30 after-school systems in Japan.

In Japan, the group focuses on basic educational services, such as after-school classes for various subjects, one-on-one tuition and preparation courses for high school and university entrance examinations. By providing an effective teaching method, the group helps more than 2.000 students each year, enabling them to enter famous high schools in Hokkaido.



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Are they teaching Japanese or English or Vietnamese? Foreign teacher with local assistant like in GMIT? If japanese only kind of like 100,000 students learn language i think compare to majority English. Hey but why they all open in HCMC, only UK and Australia seem open on both then

Vietnamese officials still begging for Japanese investments...so Japan is still doing something better than Viet Nam. Or Vietnamese economic officials should go back working in their farm lol.

What about US universities, you prefer those more?

They don't give it for free, they give ODA becuase most ODA project in Vietnam is more profitable than those in Indonesia or Malaysia and Philippine, you can find data online. That why also some project, Japan company bribe our officer with big amount of money to sign contract and let them take project. It is simply a business. About US university, u now Pham Binh Minh right, he was gain scholarship in Full Bright University program. But i kind op like British school system better.

The US system emphasizes breadth, courses require weekly or even biweekly readings as well as other assignments such as small writing projects, major research papers, and oral presentations throughout the course. In the British system, most schools are much more lecture-based, with only occasional assignments throughout the semester. In some cases, there may be no actual required assignments and instead your entire grade may be based on one final exam and field trip activity. In the US, your grade will be based on your performance on the variety of assignments, with a final exam making up only a percentage of your total grade.

The British school system was more close to our country school system, Japan too, easier for student to adopt, long period then can developed more feature of US school system later right?

@mike2000 is back, @Yorozuya, @Carlosa, @Nihonjin1051, @Viet

 

[William Hung]

They don't give it for free, they give ODA becuase most ODA project in Vietnam is more profitable than those in Indonesia or Malaysia and Philippine, you can find data online. That why also some project, Japan company bribe our officer with big amount of money to sign contract and let them take project. It is simply a business. About US university, u now Pham Binh Minh right, he was gain scholarship in Full Bright University program. But i kind op like British school system better.

The US system emphasizes breadth, courses require weekly or even biweekly readings as well as other assignments such as small writing projects, major research papers, and oral presentations throughout the course. In the British system, most schools are much more lecture-based, with only occasional assignments throughout the semester. In some cases, there may be no actual required assignments and instead your entire grade may be based on one final exam and field trip activity. In the US, your grade will be based on your performance on the variety of assignments, with a final exam making up only a percentage of your total grade.

The British school system was more close to our country school system, Japan too, easier for student to adopt, long period then can developed more feature of US school system later right?

@mike2000 is back, @Yorozuya, @Carlosa, @Nihonjin1051, @Viet

We had a big debate about ODA here before, which included a lot of members. Lets just say, how good ODA is can only depend on how the local govt uses it.

As for schools. I think it depends. I dont know much about UK eduaction system. Also it depends on the field and level of study.

I was told that US style in the soft science are getting copied by Aus/NZ. In the graduate level (Masters or PhD), there are generally (all schools have different policy) no final exams. Evrything are based on researchs/assignments/projects. If you are PhD candidates, then you have a final oral examination/thesis defence. There are no final written exams. But some school, you do need to take graduate level papers that have final written exams before you go to the thesis phase. And for some US school, it is compulsory for graduate candidate to take on TA or lecturing duty. So I think US schools want to create a more practical program. Hard science might be different.

Undergraduate level have final written exams. But most lecturers I know dont like this because final exams only have enough time to ask easier questions whereas in course assignments/essay they can ask for much harder problems where they can really test your knowledge and grasp of the topic and you would need time to sit down, research and think hard about the answers. Final exams are more about regurgitating short answers since the time limit is only a few hours.

Most lecturers tell me the same thing, the only reason they have final exams is to make sure the students really know their stuff and didn’t cheat in their assignments (e.g. copying or getting someone else to do it for them). so they have final exams to basically confirm that the students do know their stuff. The consensus is that, if the students were to be perfectly honest and never cheat, then they would just get rid of the final exams.

And I agree with them. Those harder assignments are what really makes you think hard and test your learning ability. Final exams, imo, rely more on memory power and how fast you can solve a problem and how fast you can write the answer. And for people like me writing short essay answers in the final exam, I’m always at a disadvantage since my writing skill sucks and I find it hard to compose good short answers within a short period of time without making spelling or grammatical mistake or getting writer’s block. So I can lose good marks even if I have learnt well and have memorised the lecture materials. And the final exams scenario does not reflect real world academia anyway. Doing research in academia is more like doing assignments as you get time to sit down, research and think about your topic. When you write for publication, you will have an editor to proof read your stuff for spelling mistakes, etc (or you can ask a friend to do it before submitting). So I find final exams absolutely meaningless other than to confirm that people didn’t cheat in their assignments or research papers.

So I disagree that it would be preferrable to have an education system where there is hardly any assignments/small research papers and then you get a final exams that determines most of your grade. Like I said, you cant just test or make people think about a very complicated problem with a 2-3 hours time limits of an average final exam. From my experience, the assignments and research papers makes me think harder than the short questions asked in the final exams. So doing assignments and research papers makes me learn new things on my own while doing final exam just allows me to regurgitate.

But I know that a lot of students in Vietnam WILL cheat in their assignments/research papers so the education system where the final exam only determine a small percentage of the final grade, will be very problematic.

 

[Rechoice]

Vietnam need more skilled workers and dynamic business men, not such useless certificate title like master or Ph. D. This people is sitting in air conditioned offices and talking like professor, but useless.

 

[vtnsx]

Vietnam need more skilled workers and dynamic business men, not such useless certificate title like master or Ph. D. This people is sitting in air conditioned offices and talking like professor, but useless.

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