With over 125,000 schools, the USA boasts one of the largest education ICT sectors in the world with estimated revenues over £5 billion.
School districts in the USA have implemented or are implementing a wide range of educational technologies including digital textbooks, e-learning or virtual school programmes for rural students, and bring your own device programmes.
The USA has a large number of well-established educational technology resellers and distributors that could be potential partners for UK companies looking to enter the market.
Erick Brown
Education and Training Lead
UKTI Vietnam
Strategic Plan: The Prime Minister launched the ‘Education Development Strategic Plan for 2011-2020’ to overhaul the entire education system: ‘It is imperative to conduct radical and comprehensive innovation of Vietnamese education in the direction of standardisation, modernisation and internationalisation’
Programme: The Government is urging for management and finance reforms in the education sector to improve education quality: improvement in proficiency in foreign medium of instruction, reduction of textbook contents, adoption of IT and more investment in schools.
Opportunity: Supply of technology and equipment including teaching devices, E-learning tools, resources and infrastructure, etc
