Education

Wildlife classes to enlighten kids

Students at 40 secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City have been learning about wildlife preservation through extracurricular classes offered in temporary tents set up on their campuses.

Overseas study consultancy firms mushroom, putting students in a maze

Despite numerous study consultancy firms having been established across Vietnam, many of them have been found as not meeting the requirements for operation.

Rural training places quality over quantity

A programme launched two years ago to provide vocational training to rural workers will focus on quality and not quantity though it targets training 600,000 people this year.

University forges signature of Minister

The Ministry of Education's inspectorate found several violations in joint training programmes by Haiphong Medical University.

Vocational training in a mess

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

Development program sets this way, training goes the other way

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.

Homosexual youngsters ill treated at school

A majority of homosexual students are suffering from communal discrimination and violence, according to experts addressing a workshop in Hanoi.

Hanoian parents jostled to buy application forms

Hundreds of Hanoian parents spent sleepless nights queuing up in front of the Giang Vo Experimental School to buy application forms for their children's studying at the school.

Foreign language skill requirements make it difficult to produce PhDs

Universities complain that some unreasonable regulations have prevented many people to enter the training courses for doctorates.

Drop out students choose to work

The increasing number of students dropping out of school is a continual problem for educators in Dak Lak Province.

English centres closed overnight, students in limbo

Several English centres in HCMC leave their victims scratching heads after they suddenly shut down without paying refunds to students and salary arrears to teachers.

Vietnamese getting familiar to homeschooling

While homeschooling remains unfamiliar to many Vietnamese, the concept has recently been imported to the country by the parents who have the chances to work and live abroad.

Hanoi nursery schools enroll pupils through… lucky draws

State owned nursery schools in Hanoi have decided to organize lucky draws to choose pupils.

Holding exams in schoolyard, school sparks controversy

A Ho Chi Minh City elementary school has stirred up public controversy by having its students take their end-of-semester exams in the schoolyard.

Vietnam stresses need to reform education

The Ministry of Education and Training announced an action programme for the 2011-2016 period with a focus on education reform.

All Vietnamese students bag APhO medals

All eight Vietnamese students who competed in the 13th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in New Delhi won medals, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Universities and colleges face enrolment ban

Five universities and colleges are banned from enrolling new students for five specialties after an inspection revealed shortcomings in their training quality.

Australian education to be introduced in Hanoi, HCM City

An Australian education exhibition will take place in Hanoi and HCM City on May 12-13 respectively, with the participation of 14 private and public Australian high schools.