Education

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

Physical education is proving difficult to teach due to a lack of facilities and overcrowded school timetables.

Students who study nuclear power at domestic universities will now have their tuition and accommodation fees waived, thanks to the Government's recent draft decision.

Vietnam is encouraging scientists from abroad to join scientific research and the transfer of new technology at local universities.

HCMC's authorities requested a freeze on the bank account of the Melior Vietnam Company after their school closed suddenly.

Children in My Yen Commune, Thai Nguyen Province, have 10 new classrooms as a result of a project jointly funded by local authorities and the Boeing Company.

The Hanoi education department initiated programme on teaching English to first graders started in 2008. To date, 400 schools have joined the programme.

Many modern parents coddle their children, creating disruption in the classroom and problems for other children.

Many graduates with excellent degrees continue to fail to find jobs due to a lack of vocational skills.

Hanoi has proposed new regulations, banning teachers from offering extra classes to primary students.

Imitation, not creativeness, is the thing Vietnamese teachers require on their students when they teach how to write compositions.

Increasing numbers of Vietnamese are taking MA studies to progress in their careers. However, the quality of the courses is in doubt.