Education

A lot of private universities are still awaiting more students, though October is nearly ending, and state owned schools all have started a new academic year.

The Prime Minister has agreed to utilise $20 million to improve quality of teaching in schools for gifted students in disadvantaged regions of the country.

The poor material facilities is not the only reason behind the low training quality of the schools. Experts believe that the most important reason lies in the teaching method.

The Singaporean Embassy in Vietnam presented the ASEAN scholarships to nine Vietnamese pupils at ceremonies in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on October 22.

Although Vietnam boasts the highest number of Ph.D's in Asean countries, it shows little evidence of original or innovative ideas.

There are many tricks teachers can play to force students to their private tutoring classes, even though the MOET has prohibited teachers to do so.

Students and teachers at some schools in HCM City are struggling to complete their tasks amid substandard facilities.

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.