Education

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.

Several schools in HCM City have leased their land for shops and parking, facing protests from parents.

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.