Education

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

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.

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

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.

While many young Vietnamese find the subject boring at school, they are using sites like Facebook to learn history on their own.

An increasing number of students choose to study in other countries, posing challenges for the education system in Vietnam.

Vietnam now witnesses the movement of learning less common foreign languages, because the language skills could be an advantage for Vietnamese to look for jobs.

Students nowadays do not want to study at pedagogical schools to become teachers, even though they do not have to pay tuition for university study.

Non-state owned schools now already prepare the enrolment plan for the next school year because of the lack of students.

Graduates of international high schools operating in Vietnam are denied access to Vietnamese higher education, even though their schools are accredited in the country.

A pilot programme to teach natural science subjects in English at high schools for the gifted has proven ineffective because of a lack of qualified criteria.

The Vietnam High Equality Education for All report was aimed at analysing the performance of domestic primary and secondary schooling during 1992-2008.

Hundreds of K-12 students at two schools in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai risk their life to wade a fast-flowing river to get to school.

Economics-related university streams are the most in demand this year while social sciences and humanities courses attracted fewer applications.

A lot of high schools in Vinh Phuc province refused to receive the applications for attending university entrance exams from the student with weak learning ability.

As many as 845 primary schools with around 315,000 students in 36 provinces and cities have benefited from the School Education Quality Assurance Programme.

Parental avoidance of sex education has led to misunderstandings among young people, experts said.

A debate has been raised by readers about whether to give money to children to reward for children’s efforts.

The PM requested agencies to assist in lowering the rate of students who don't attend university for financial reasons.