Education

The Ministry of Education and Training has stopped the state budget funded programme on sending Vietnamese students abroad.

Many high school students are avoiding arduous domestic university entrance exams by opting to study abroad.

Sex is too sensitive to be taught at K-12 schools, granted a growing number of students falling in love and having sex with each other.

Public kindergartens deny application for three and four year old kids to help HCMC universalise preschool education for five year old.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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