Education

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.

Many general school teachers and university lecturers were recently found as not having education degrees required for their jobs, while they have been working on posts for many years.

More than 200 teachers in Ky Anh district, central Ha Tinh province, are set to lose their jobs this month as the district authority has introduced new contract rules.

Thirty out of 63 special candidates, who came first at the domestic schools’ finals and graduated from foreign schools with “distinction” or at an “excellent” level, did not pass the test to join Hanoi agencies’ staff.

The growth rate of new schools in HCM City has not matched the rise in population in recent years, according to Le Hong Son, head of the city Department of Education and Training.

The chair of Yen Lap District, a poor locality in the northern province of Phu Tho, has refused 100 scholarships offered to local poor students to avoid possible disputes.

Under current laws, female workers can enjoy six-month maternity leave, but state-owned nursery schools only accept children older than 12 months.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) decision on banning entrance exams to select sixth graders translates into a declaration of death for schools for the gifted at the secondary level.

Up to VND4 trillion (USD186.4 million) is spent on educational programmes in Ho Chi Minh City every year, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Hua Ngoc Thuan.

Three commune officials in central Thua Thien, Hue Province have been caught using fake high school diplomas.

The quota for public high schools students in HCM City this year is about 64,600, leaving approximately 14,000 students with no chance of receiving a public education which was generally known as best in the education system.

Local education and training departments have agreed on secondary school plans to select students based on their learning records and tests on comprehensive knowledge.

Everything has become as tangled as bamboo shavings as the Hanoi Education and Training Department has changed its decision on tests overnight.

More than 120,000 students will sit for the national high school exam this year in Hanoi.

Educators, parents and policy makers have blamed each other for the problem of students ‘sitting in the wrong class”. The phrase is commonly used in Vietnam to describe students whose knowledge is not adequate for their school grade.

US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius was the guest of honour at the inauguration ceremony on April 17 for the new St Paul American School campus in Hanoi.