Education

The Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged any input that would lead to the uncovering of violations in the upcoming university entrance exam process.

Management of private kindergartens will be tightened when new regulations come into effect on August 2.

Children should be given early education at school about sexual abuse and equipped with skills to protect themselves.

Many universities have incurred huge losses from holding entrance exams due to increasing prices.

The English words have been resounded every night not from a foreign language center, but the small temples in HCMC and Thua Thien-Hue Province.

Vietnam’s College of Natural Sciences ranked second in terms of chemistry training quality in Asia, according to the ASEAN University Network.

Many wealthy families spend thousands of USD to send children abroad to summer camps in the hope of improving their communication and English skills.

Parents in HCMC are desperately trying to get a 'kindergarten graduate certificate' as rumours circulate that their children will not be allowed to enter first grade without it.

The Government Inspectorate has responded to Vietnam National University's complaints on their inspection report.

Training centres for university entrance exams are offering attractive programmes to lure students.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the allocation of $105 million for the 2nd phase of a secondary school development project, a report said.

A number of higher education scams have been revealed recently which pose potential dangers for the education system.

Disappointed with the Ministry of Education and Training’s swimming teaching program, parents now bring their children to swimming practice classes themselves.

A recent inspection revealed a number of misconducts in affiliated programmes of Vietnam National University, branch in Hanoi.

Writing compositions proves to be a very easy work for Vietnamese students, because they just need learn the sample essays by heart and then write down.

The Ministry of Education and Training issued a circular giving incentives to private kindergartens.

Many bookstores in HCM City have become ideal places for students to read books without having to pay for books.

The number of applications for the 2012 university and college entrance examinations has reduced by 7.7%, according to the MoET.

Many provinces and cities have drawn up plans to improve the quality of local English teachers after discovering that most achieved very low scores on international English tests.