Education

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called on the UK to share its experience in education and provide Vietnam with technical assistance.

The Ministry of Education and Training asked education departments nationwide to take measures stop the teaching of foreign languages at kindergartens.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on February 25 chaired the second meeting of the National Council on Education and Human Resources Development in Hanoi.

A local education expert said training in penmanship and arithmetic memorisation should be dropped from primary school education because it lacks real educational value.

The teacher who slapped two high school students in Binh Dinh Province was dismissed after a video of the incident and the ensuing scuffle surfaced.

Students with severe disabilities will be allowed to enter universities and colleges without taking examinations, according to a recent joint circular on educational policies.

An education fund has been set up for the children of workers in industrial zones in several southern provinces, which includes to improve preschool education.

Education authorities in Quang Trach District, Quang Binh Province have been criticised for organising an outdoor swimming competition despite cold weather.

The Japanese Government will provide financial and technical assistance for the Can Tho University in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho to achieve its development goals.

A video clip in which two high school students beat their teacher after being slapped has stirred public concern over the behaviour of both students and teachers.

Rector of the Hanoi University of Science Nguyen Van Noi talks to the Vietnam News Agency about the preparations for the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad, which will be organised in Vietnam this July.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has stressed the need to renovate exams and education management at a February 13 conference held by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Only 31 out of over 400 universities and colleges across Vietnam have sent plans to organise independent entrance exams.

HCM City hopes to ensure that by next year all children from the age of one will be cared for at schools, according to the Secretary of the municipal Party Committee.

The director of the Higher Education Department said that the recent suspension of new admissions for 207 university courses was aimed at increasing the quality of education.

Ho Manh Giang, is the first and sole Pako ethnic minority man in Thua Thien-Hue province, to achieve an MA degree from a big US university.

Only six percent of secondary school graduates in Vietnam go to vocational schools. More than a half of high school graduates go to universities and junior colleges.

A large number of unemployed university graduates stayed in rented housing or did seasonal jobs in HCMC instead of returning home for Tet.

A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually, said the UN.