Education

Vietnam will have about 3,000 vocational teachers who meet the quality standards set by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by 2015.

Many students complain that they learn little more than how to clean offices and make tea during their probation with companies.

The Ministry of Education and Training has stated that it would restructure the training establishment network and stop the “university bubble.”

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has admitted that big problems exist in the textbooks for the national education system.

Students' parents at a Hanoi’s preschool were angered after seeing their children were given pictures of a half-naked mermaid.

More and more Vietnamese parents believe that their children need to go to school soon before the school age, so as to have the best conditions to develop into child prodigies.

Hundreds of teachers in HCM City have taken on the job of psychologists because of a shortage of properly trained people in the field.

Japan has agreed to send experts to Vietnam to help improve the quality of vocational training.

A lack of incentives has created a shortage of kindergarten teachers, so not all children can go to school by the age of five, a number of NA deputies said at a talk with the Education Minister.

A paradox has been existing in the labor market: a lot of university graduates cannot find jobs, while businesses lack workers because the candidates cannot meet their requirements.

Facing student shortages, private education institutes have express their disagreement with government policies.

The MoET has issued a statement discouraging schools and universities from organising beauty contests for students.

The last 10 years witnessed big upheavals in the pre-school education. The policy on pre-school education socialisation has kept a lot of children away from kindergartens.

US school administrators have pledged to add police patrols, review security plans in their districts as students return to classes.

Educators have urged higher-education institutes in Vietnam to use the student assessment from the ASEAN University Network to improve the quality of training.

The Hanoi-based National University of Economics has been found to have illegally collected fees worth more than VND51 billion ($2.4 million) from its students.

The Vietnam Institute for Vietnamese Martial Arts and Sports Research and Development is the first one in Vietnam which has successfully weaned off games addictions for children of school age.

Amid a serious lack of scientists, experts have proposed that the government should work out a regulation to foster training.

Economic expert Bui Van said his generation has exploited oil and coal to the end, caught all the fishes and chopped down trees to export to Japan. And they are proud of this, because they have made the filial