Here's the prompt: Choose an issue of importance to you-the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.
This is my first draft, please give me any advice or comments if I am going the right direction. Please be critical, the more critical the happier I am:)
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"From the Fall Semester 2013, colleges will not admit students major in Finance, Banking, and Accounting" is a part of the letter sending from the Ministry of Education to universities in Vietnam two days ago when I started to write this essay. The reason stated by the Ministry is that there is an excess supply of graduated students major in those fields while the demand is at a low rate. This is not simply an issue that impact myself but an issue of a generation yet in two places: the generation of Vietnamese college students and the generation of Vietnamese students studying abroad.
According to the proposal, new college applicants will have to declare any majors but Finance or its related majors, such as Banking or Accounting. The proposal forces a generation of Vietnamese youth to major in a field that they are neither interested nor passionate. Those students will not be motivated to study, not to mention success or joy in learning.
To my generation who is studying abroad and specifically me, the proposal frustrated me because it crashed the dream of a generation. However, I am motivated and eager to go back to Vietnam to prove that the proposal is not the solution to the excess supply of labor. The Vietnamese education system does not provide its graduates skills or language to communicate as globalization emerges, international banks start to invest and jump into the market will hold a high standard of its staffs and only employ quality workers. The international students coming back to Vietnam will create a new wave of labors that is the vivid evidence that there is no reason to stop to educate but to improve the education system that produces quality products, the graduates. Together, this generation will raise Vietnamese workers' quality
