Education

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.

The Ministry of Education and Training will intensify management over foreign education institutions across the country this year.

Between 300 and 500 voluntary teachers from native English-speaking countries will come to Vietnam each year to work in schools following a landmark deal.

The MoET’s new regulation that allows students to bring tape-recorders and cameras in exams has caused concern.

Several educators have said that the country’s teacher training methods remain a shamble.

Students are hiring stand-ins to represent them in lesson in the run-up to Tet.

Vietnamese students are being bored by their literature lessons due to uncreative teaching methods.

Thousands of native-English speakers will be invited to teach English in Vietnam under an education cooperation agreement.

While a regulation on education quality verification has taken effect since January 6, many schools in HCM City said it’s unpractical and improper.

The government recently approved a project worth VND340 billion (USD16.3 million) on education development until 2020.

Many students, especially those from big cities, are taking advantage of modern gadgets to cheat in exams.

Individuals, organisations and enterprises contributed over VND700 billion to encourage increased studying in 2012.

HCMC has 15 special schools for the hearing-impaired, where 2,000 students are already enrolled.

A large number of high school students are getting in debt from borrowing money to buy consumer goods or through gambling.

The new standards for general education accreditation applied as of January 2013 have made schools puzzled, as they don’t know what to do to become standardised.

A pilot programme for business courses in high schools will start during the 2013-2014 school year, said the MoET.

While hundreds of teachers continue to wait for a job, several areas in Thanh Hoa Province have a serious lack of teachers.