Education

Not only the students studying at domestic universities, but the ones graduating from foreign schools also find it difficult to get the jobs in the banking and finance sector nowadays.

Vietnam's complex higher education system needs to be better integrated in order to improve training quality, a foreign education expert has suggested.

Most of the primary schools in Hanoi now run the international English teaching programs together with the standard program set up by the MOET.

Experts have urged the Government to raise salaries for teachers, as half of 500 teachers recently surveyed do not want to continue their career because of low pay.

Primary, secondary, vocational centers and continuation schools in the central province of Ha Tinh are seriously lacking students.

Despite being highly appreciated, HCM City is facing many difficulties in realising its plan to hire Filipino teachers of English.

The Ministry of Education and Training is planning to change the content of history textbooks and teaching methods.

Under national program on teaching foreign languages, students would be encouraged to begin learning foreign languages soon, while under-standard teachers would be dismissed.

Despite large investment, the quality of Vietnam’s education remains far from expectations, one educator has said.

The number of students becoming the victims of overseas study consultancy firms’ trickeries has been increasing.

The Asian Development Bank will provide USD90 million to help Vietnam strengthen teaching quality and courses in biology, chemistrys and social sciences.

The increasingly high number of bankrupted or dissolved businesses means fewer job opportunities for new university graduates.

Primary and secondary schools in HCM City have asked parents of students to pay 100% of the fee for hiring foreign English teachers as well as equipment for the classes.

The seventh Roundtable Meeting of ASEAN Educational Leaders and the fifth Southeast Asia School Principals Forum opened in the central coastal city of Nha Trang.

The French Development Agency has signed two agreements to finance a combined EUR25 million for vocational training in Vietnam.

Winners of regional and international Olympiad prizes have not yet got state funding for overseas study.

The current policies do not offer the preferences attractive enough to encourage bachelors to return to home villages after the graduation.

The MOET has released a new decision offering school admission preferences to the students from the three difficult areas.

The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony in Hanoi to honour students who won prizes at regional and international Olympiads in 2012.