Education

Many public primary schools in Hanoi have been ignoring the regulations on the collection of fees from students.

An official from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies confirmed that they have enough money to make loans to students from low-income families.

Different schools are following different English curriculums, thus making parents puzzled.

The quality of vocational trainings in Vietnam is the lowest among regional countries and has yet to meet the market’s demand, an official said at a a recent seminar.

The Ministry of Education and Training is considering providing the once- seniority allowance to retired workers. However, teachers say they feel “self-pity” with the new policy.

Many primary school students also have expensive hi-tech devices which offer them better study conditions but also brings them black web access opportunities.

An online exchange was held on DTiNews in which panelists lent their expertise to students and parents curious about studying in the UK.

ISC-UKEAS and DTiNews are holding an online exchange entitled "Maximising your Investment in UK Study at a Time of Economic Uncertainty".

Parents in Hanoi’s Quoc Oai District were outraged to learn that a local public preschool only accepted children of local officials.

Labour market-oriented training was a common trend in developed countries across the region and throughout the world that Vietnam needed to follow, said Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan.

There are plans to set up an official National Reading Day in Vietnam to encourage the once strong Vietnamese fondness for reading.

Vietnamese students have to learn harder and do more home exercises than foreign students, but this does not mean that Vietnamese are better than foreign.

The Japanese Government has agreed to help build the Nguyen Thi Minh Khai primary school in Tra Doc commune, Bac Tra My District, in Quang Nam province.

Vietnam urban parents have been rushing to bring the children to the classes where students can approach a modern way of learning math.

The Ministry of Education and Training is seeking opinions from agencies and the public for stricter standards to recognise secondary and high schools as nationally-graded level.

Despite the low demand and the low popularity of e-books and the widespread copyright infringement, the big guys in the hi-tech sector all are planning to digitalise textbooks.

Many parents in Hanoi have complained about excessive school fees, but have failed to petition school leaders as they are worried it would affect their children.

The Ministry of Education and Training has drawn up a plan to recompile textbooks for general school students, estimating cost VND70 trillion.

HCM City’s programme to use English for teaching science subjects has faced many difficulties.