Education

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.

Insiders believe that an unreasonable examination scheme and lack of transparency are the two reasons that led to many good candidates failing the Hanoi civil service exam.

Hanoi had few parks and playgrounds because many earmarked for this purpose were being used for parking, business or other projects.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked vocational training centres nationwide to find jobs for rural labourers and improve their income, before organising vocational classes for them.

While schools wait for a final enrollment scheme, the race among parents to find a place for their children at a top junior high school in Hanoi has started to heat up.

Concerned individuals and organisations are offering their comments on a draft of 45 criteria for evaluating the quality of English textbooks for primary to high school education nationwide.