Education

Machine learning has become in fashion among the well-off families in big cities in Vietnam. However, educators have warned that the learning machine abuse would do more harm than good.

Graduated students as well as long-time employees are facing greater challenges in finding jobs amid the economic downturn.

City authorities have asked several agencies to deploy more personnel to control traffic congestion in areas where students attend school.

Le Anh Dung, a Vietnamese student in the Czech Republic, has won two silver medals at the 2011 and 2012 International Mathematics Olympiads.

As a new academic year approaches, many provinces and cities are worried they will not have enough kindergarten and primary school teachers.

About half of local school teachers regret choosing teaching as their career, a survey says.

Although the uniform rule was made to lessen the class gap between students, in many cases it has had the opposite effect.

Vietnam comes high in international mathematics champs

Fewer students are enrolling in technology studies although the demand for trained staff in the field is high, according to university officials.

Under the current regulations, every class at nursery and primary schools must have no more than 35 students. However, most of the state owned schools in Hanoi cannot meet the requirements.

Students from poor families will be able to delay paying tuition fees at the beginning of the new school year, while some graduates who have not been able to repay student debts will get loan extensions.

Tens of thousands of students who will be travelling to Hanoi for their first year at university next month are likely to be left searching for accommodation because of delayed dormitory projects.

Nowadays there is a tendency for students to conduct practical scientific research and use it to earn money by selling data to corporate companies.

Four Vietnamese students have won one gold, two silver and one bronze medals at the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad held in Washington DC.

Many private high schools in HCMC have enrolled fewer 10th-grade students for the upcoming 2012-13 school year because of higher school fees.

Experts have urged primary schools to set up psychological counselling offices to help them overcome problems and enhance their learning.

Going off daily pace, many Vietnamese young people have chosen to spend a year or two to travel, get involved and discover themselves.

The members of the Vietnamese team secured five medals, including two golds, at the 43rd International Physics Olympiad held by Estonia, the Ministry of Education and Training said.

More than 80% of primary school students in Hanoi and HCMC are weak at analyzing and setting problems while they only have booklore.