Education

Senator John McCain, who is leading a US Senate delegation visiting Vietnam this week, met on May 29 with students from the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Vocational education and training is a key area of cooperation between Vietnam and Australia and a primary lever for reducing poverty in the country, said Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Hugh Borrowman.

The country must reform pedagogical schools so future teachers can keep up with changes in education requirements, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on May 27 to recognise the academic achievements of outstanding students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has honoured a delegation of high school students who won three gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad in Indonesia on May 9 and 10.

Sinh Vien Vietnam magazine and a delegation of the European Union in Vietnam on May 26 hosted the closing ceremony and awarded prizes to the winners of a writing competition in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to speed up the construction of kindergartens in industrial zones.

British University Vietnam (BUV) has conducted the groundbreaking ceremony on its new campus in Ecopark Township in Hung Yen Province.

Returning to Vietnam nearly 4 decades after the war, Paul George Harding, a US was veteran, has opened free English classes in Hanoi as he wants to make amends as far as possible to the Vietnamese people.

Nearly a hundred representatives from 15 Asian universities gathered at a forum held on May 22 in the northern province of Quang Ninh to discuss the significance of green growth towards sustainable and harmonious development.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) must bear full responsibility for the increasingly high number of unemployed university graduates, experts say.

Two Vietnamese students who received awards this year at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Pittsburgh the US, were guests of honour at a reception hosted by the Ministry of Education and Training.

University entrance-exam preparation centers, which mushroomed in number some years ago, will be shut down because of a new exam regulation.

Vietnamese students rank high at international competitions, but in the eyes of parents, the Vietnamese educational system has problems.

The number of good candidates who have failed civil service exams has been increasing year after year.

The Lilama 2 Vocational Training College, the first Vietnamese school to be accredited as a member of the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training, is providing free three-year trainings for students in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Secondary school graduates in Nghe An province who have learning capacity below average have been told to go to vocational schools instead of high schools. As a result, many newly built high schools are seriously thirsty for students.

The Hanoi Education and Training Department at the May 7 meeting officially instructed secondary schools to enroll students based on their records shown on school reports.

The chairwoman of the HCM City's People's Council said the city would build more kindergartens for children of workers at industrial parks and export processing zones.