Education

The Nihon Keizai newspaper is reporting the Japan Human Resource Society (JHRS) will help train Vietnamese civil servants who are candidates for leadership positions.

The World Bank (WB) has approved two loans worth 150 million USD to help Vietnam maintain its higher education reform programme and prepare five-year-old children for school.

Banning students from distributing recordings or images revealing exam cheating is contrary to regulations in the Law on Denouncement, a government official said.

A newly-released Government decree designed to provide favourable treatment for teachers and educational officials in deprived areas is expected to encourage them to become more devoted to their careers.

Many private colleges and universities are facing the risk of closure due to failure to fill student quotas.

A letter from a journalist to Minister of Education and Training asking about slow meal support for children in disadvantaged areas has caused public criticism over red tape.

Public concern has been raised over a new regulation on military service for young men.

Singers from a music club in Ho Chi Minh City held a performance to introduce traditional musical instruments to young students of a school in District 5.

The WB in Vietnam and the AusAID have officially announced the five best projects to get their support for realising innovative learning programs in education and training.

Ethnic minority children taught in both their native language and Vietnamese are more active and confident and fare better in educational settings, study found.

Banning children under five from studying foreign teaching programmes would help preserve Vietnamese culture, an official said.

The government has decided to lower tuition and provide exemptions for medical students for five majors.

Starting this year, all preschool-age children from ethnic minority groups in the Dak Nong province will be taught Vietnamese before entering first grade, according to the provincial People’s Council.

A lot of young bachelors, including the ones with two or three university degrees, have to lay by their degrees in wardrobe and take the jobs as blue collar workers.

From now on, school curriculum in the central province of Khanh Hoa will include lesson chapters on Vietnam's Sea and Islands, with pictures and documents showing the country’s sovereignty.

Universities are attempting to attract students for the 2013 academic year by lowering fees, opening new faculties, or scholarships.

Many vocational schools are facing a shortage of students as only 63.5% of people who passed the exams entered their schools last year.

Foreign-invested nurseries will not be allowed to receive local children aged below five, according to the government’s decree.

A new school in Hoa Binh Province was inaugurated under a public-private partnership between Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, local authorities and Boeing.