Few works in English address the issues of education in Vietnam despite it being a country of some 89 million people. Whilst there are some helpful overviews of education in the country including the school system and the socio-economic background of the country , most works either focus on the political economy of a country that needs to develop its education system in order to sustain its rapid economic growth,or specifically address the need for higher education reform. We see our project as but a small contribution to addressing the dearth of literature about schools in Vietnam and call for more research to develop empirical knowledge in this context.